Public life Quotes · Page 5

By the very fact of public life, one seems to lose humanity in people's eyes.

— Abigail McCarthy

When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

— Laurence J. Peter

We cannot change public life until we have changed private life.

— Theodore Zeldin

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

— George Eliot

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

— Ludwig Quidde

I thought, I'm out in my life, that doesn't involve my public life.

— Portia de Rossi

Many people in public life are not good campaigners.

— Sanjaya Baru

In public life, criticism cannot be avoided completely.

— Rajinikanth

For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.

— Chelsea Clinton

“Public life is debased because it's only the nice people who are worried about imposing their views on others.”

— Alain de Botton

Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.

— Anne Hull

We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future…

— Edward Kennedy

I think it will be very challenging for someone who has not been in prominent public life in the age of Twitter…

— Daniel Pfeiffer

Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life…

— Jane Jacobs

Our ideology is intolerant...and peremptorily demands...the complete transformation of public life to its ideas.

— Adolf Hitler

I have a great deal of compassion for those in public life and what we have done to them.

— Peter Morgan

There is a lurking sense that there is a kind of seedy corruption underlying a lot of public life today. But while…

— Adam Curtis

I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether its being a reporter or serving in public…

— Kevin Cramer

Certain favourite roles are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we…

— Marcel Proust

My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that life is not about…

— Chelsea Clinton

From these activists we can learn a crucial lesson: without citizens creating the institutions necessary for facilitating the growth of public deliberation,…

— Kevin Mattson

Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the…

— Lester B. Pearson

This book [Dreams from My Father] was more of a reflection on my public life, now as a U.S. senator and before…

— Barack Obama

If you attack stupidity you attack and entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life, and you will…

— Samuel Marchbanks

I feel like my public life isn't necessarily my own. I'm starting to get used to how to maneuver and operate in…

— Lance Reddick

We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us…

— Benjamin Franklin

When abroad, behaveto everyone as if interviewing an honored guest; in directing the people, act as if you were assisting at a…

— Confucius

Obama has already demonstrated an extraordinary ability to change the limits of what one can say publicly. His greatest achievement up to…

— Slavoj Žižek

For me, there is nothing better than being able to work with my dad every day. But, I know that isn't God's…

— Jay Sekulow

“Although the impression might be given from this discussion that economists wish to preserve some kind of balance between contrasting values in…

— Vaddhaka Linn

I kind of make my life an open book as long as the left exists to use Saul Alinsky tactics to destroy…

— Andrew Breitbart

“The vast majority of funding in support of women appears to have been directed toward the training of women as participants in…

— Nadje Al-Ali

“Alexis de Tocqueville warned that as the economy and government of America got bigger, citizens could become smaller: less practiced in the…

— Eric Liu

“Lamentations about the tribulations of public life, followed by celebrations of the bucolic splendor of retirement to rural solitude, had become a…

— Joseph J. Ellis

“[Public housing projects] are not lacking in natural leaders,' [Ellen Lurie, a social worker in East Harlem] says. 'They contain people with…

— Jane Jacobs

“A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United…

— H.L. Mencken

When I make a contribution in debates and in our public life, the House wants to hear what I say. It goes…

— David Lammy

I have been called many things in public life, but the cap that best fits is that of the centrist dad.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

“Public life in this country is too damn dominated by people who’d read more if only their lips didn’t get so tired.”

— Markham Shaw Pyle

Everything in American public life, when it comes to race relations, serves as a frame for a history of violence and degrading…

— Amitava Kumar