Public life Quotes · Page 8

In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with…

— Paul Keating

I always thought Henry Kissinger was a disaster because he lies like most people breathe and you can't have that in public…

— Seymour Hersh

My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important.

— Patti Smith

I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

[Donald] Trump wasn't even in public life back in 2002-2003. There was nothing Trump could have done one way or the other…

— Rush Limbaugh

To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years…

— George H. W. Bush

The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should…

— Mark Shields

On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of…

— Arthur Henderson

“Yes, I had left the State Department with some of the highest approval ratings of anyone in public life—one poll from the…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training…

— Annie Besant

But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Queen removed her…

— Anthony Holden

advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an…

— Mary Frances Berry

When you work with your wife you really have no "me" time, or place to get away and be with the guys,…

— Tom Arnold

Life after the White House found Dad enjoying having his grandchildren around and letting go of all the enormous burden he shouldered…

— Dorothy Bush Koch

Taking a toddler to school is one of the most satisfying moments in my many years in public life. There is no…

— Narendra Modi

It's clearly the case that there's not some moment in American history when every evangelical is holding hands with every Catholic who…

— Ross Douthat

In a Society becoming steadily more privatized with private homes, cars, computers, offices and shopping centers, the public component of our lives…

— Jan Gehl

I always felt, and I still feel, that the media doesn't belong in a public official's private life. It's a very difficult…

— Rudy Giuliani

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

— Slavoj Žižek

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

— Vaddhaka Linn

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

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

— Confucius

But Hitler didn't strive for the annihilation of the Jews - he stressed that fact in public life and in the newspapers.…

— Franz von Papen

You've only got to be in public life for about a week before you start to question if the newspapers are even…

— Jonathan Lynn

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man…

— Lyn Nofziger

I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.

— Rebecca Solnit

In L.A., you really are in your car all day alone, and there's very little public life.

— Nick Kroll

“In my fifty years of public life, I have never seen a man [Ronald Reagan] more popular with the American people”

— Tip O'Neill

If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go…

— Evan Bayh

The fact that ‘attention seeking’ is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every…

— Laurie Penny

We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public…

— Deepak Chopra

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

— Barry Commoner

“It seems that, once introduced into public life, evil easily perpetuates itself, whereas good is always difficult, rare, and fragile. And yet…

— Tzvetan Todorov

I try not to think about my public life. I focus on my private life, and that's just the best way to…

— Angelina Jolie

Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.

— Salman Khurshid

You have your private life and you have your public life, and just don’t let them interfere.

— Heather Matarazzo

These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

— James Otis

My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been…

— Rose Kennedy

I've lost count of the number of websites that try to 'out' every Muslim in public life as an extremist or Islamist…

— Mehdi Hasan