Standards in public life have decayed over time... Incompetence is the norm. — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
“People have three lives: the public life, the private life and the secret life...” — Gabriel Gracia Marquez Copy Share Image
There's no other job in public life that is like chairman of the Fed. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think. — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
One of the criteria by which we measure the worth of public figures is whether or not their brand of bull is… — John MacLachlan Gray Copy Share Image
There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were,… — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Copy Share Image
Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I never wanted my private and public life to mix as much as they did when I got divorced. — Sara Evans Copy Share Image
The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal… — Hailey Baldwin Copy Share Image
The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I've been in public life for long enough that I know you just have to live your life normally. — Gladys Berejiklian Copy Share Image
My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that life is not about… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether its being a reporter or serving in public… — Kevin Cramer Copy Share Image
There is a lurking sense that there is a kind of seedy corruption underlying a lot of public life today. But while… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
Certain favourite roles are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism is not about some state that appears out of nowhere and suddenly is all-powerful. There can't be any such thing. Totalitarianism… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
This is a sad day for all of us, and to none is it sadder than to me. Everything that I have… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
President Yeltsin's instincts were decent: he encouraged the marketplace, the press flourished, and everything started to open - even the KGB archives.… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
There is a schizophrenic nature in modern politics. A leader is expected to have a religious faith but he is not supposed… — Stephen Mansfield Copy Share Image
I leave the governor's office next week, and with it public life[which] has been on the whole a pleasant one. But for… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
There are many in public life who deserve only our praise and admiration. But there are too many who are products of… — Tim Soutphommasane Copy Share Image
“Having now finished the work assigned me,” Washington solemnly said, “I retire from the great theatre of Action. . . . I… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
“Not convinced? Research organizations like the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, LifeWay Research, Time magazine, and UCLA now say that… — Gabe Lyons Copy Share Image
“In a real democracy, what matters is not just the outcome but the way that citizens participate in a debate about the… — Mick Hume Copy Share Image
“As the year goes on, certain deputies—and others, high in public life—will appear unshaven, without coat or cravat; or they will jettison… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“For all the talk of education, modern societies neglect to examine by far the most influential means by which their populations are… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Even what may have seemed, in retrospect, like minor quibbles—over the particular wording of sharia clauses, for example—reflected fundamental divides over the… — Shadi Hamid Copy Share Image
“The Extraordinary Persons Project In fact, Ekman had been so moved personally—and intrigued scientifically—by his experiments with Öser that he announced at… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“list could be much longer. It is unpleasant to have to ask these questions. It is not easy to think about the… — Jeff Flake Copy Share Image
“There is too much emotion in our own public life. The English could never be accused of that. They lock us up,… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“and domestic aspects of life. That would be to forsake the universal claim of the kingdom of God. Newbigin looks to the… — Tim Chester Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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