Public life Quotes

Public life is constantly aware of the volcano.

— Werner Herzog

Public life has many more privileges than hardships.

— John McCain

I've never had a very great public life.

— Cameron Mackintosh

Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.

— Ian Hacking

I certainly do not support excluding faith from public life.

— Safak Pavey

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

— E. M. Forster

Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide,

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I think public life for me has a slightly didactic role, OK.

— Daniel Hannan

You know, when you're in public life, everything you do is out there. But I am proud to stand on my record.

— Dick Gephardt

My life philosophy is that you need a boring private life if you want to have a more exciting public life.

— Rutger Bregman

On the whole, my disposition is to say yes, unless I've got good reason to say no, and I think that's being…

— Ann Widdecombe

Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life.

— Lauren Beukes

“Teens are desperate to have access to and make sense of public life; understanding the technologies that enable publics is just par…

— Danah Boyd

What I've learned is that living in public life... it's impossible to have everybody like you. No matter what you do.

— Antoni Porowski

We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear…

— Rebecca Solnit

In public life, differences should not deter us from acknowledging the good work done by others whom we may not agree with.

— Amit Shah

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life…

— Emanuel Celler

The First Amendment is now being used by the secularists of our day as a cattle prod to herd conservative religious people…

— Pat Swindall

I have always gone through public life and saying that with respect to political candidates, I always measure each candidate against what…

— Colin Powell

“Until the Civil War there was scarcely a man in public life in New Orleans or Louisiana who had not fought at…

— Herbert Asbury

A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is…

— Lord Hailsham

One of the hardiest myths in British public life is that there is a conspiracy of silence on immigration. Liberals and leftists,…

— Mehdi Hasan

Everyone in public life should judge ideas on the quality of their contents, not the identity of their proponents. Doing so is…

— Kemi Badenoch

Everybody has a public life, and they have their own private life. Everybody has their secrets. Everybody has their own private, you…

— Annette Bening

“Someone inquired of a Hindu who had a great serenity and peace about him, no matter what pressures were put upon him,…

— Stephen R. Covey

I want to say to you is that James Madison and Thomas Jefferson did not intend to drive a stake in the…

— William J. Clinton

We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Hillary Clinton has a long track record of service in public life. And you can look at that. I tell the story…

— Tim Kaine

There are many in public life who deserve only our praise and admiration. But there are too many who are products of…

— Tim Soutphommasane

“In a real democracy, what matters is not just the outcome but the way that citizens participate in a debate about the…

— Mick Hume

“Not convinced? Research organizations like the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, LifeWay Research, Time magazine, and UCLA now say that…

— Gabe Lyons

“Having now finished the work assigned me,” Washington solemnly said, “I retire from the great theatre of Action. . . . I…

— Joseph J. Ellis

“Mary is a woman who loves. How could it be otherwise? As a believer who in faith thinks with God's thoughts and…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“The downfall of liberty which in every case followed the success of these attacks demonstrates in hard facts what we said before:…

— Michael Polanyi

“In our resistance to the business mentality, we are still Spanish, stubbornly Spanish. Also, we have not stopped being Catholic, nor have…

— Juan José Arévalo

“Nick's number waited impatiently on the screen, tapping its foot. I could press the red button to cancel the call. Without pressing…

— Jennifer Echols

“I have brought peace to this land, and security," he began. "And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of…

— Iain Pears

“What? Am I to be a listener only all my days? Am I never to get my word in—I that have been…

— Juvenal

“Do you want to kill his love for you? What sort of existence will he have if you rob him of the…

— Oscar Wilde

“was Goldman’s ideas that were dangerous: her ideal of a just and beautiful society inspired struggles for social change, and her uncompromising…

— Kathy E. Ferguson