I was outrageous on the 'Moral Maze.' The closest I sailed to the wind was when I almost outed a most saintly… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
I think some people who go into public life, if they go in needing the applause of thousands, they're never going to… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I've always thought that there shouldn't be any limit to the things that are well designed. And I think that people who… — Ken Done Copy Share Image
With the corporatization and privatization of higher education, it is increasingly more difficult for colleges and universities to expand and deepen democratic… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“European man has convinced himself that in order to be modern and free, he must be radically secular. That conviction has had… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I've spent most of my life in cities, and so I've always lived with the curiosity about what makes for city cultures… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
I have no question that the Roman Catholic Church teaches that abortion in virtually all circumstances is wrong. I think the church's… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
“Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life. Watch any kid and how he… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
I think where I've instinctively found myself is that I am somewhat guarded in my public life. Being interviewed or being photographed… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
Why don't you trust women to make this choice for themselves? We can encourage people to support life. Of course we can.… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Let me just say you could end this violence within a very short period of time, have a complete ceasefire - which… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
“Anybody in public life is well aware of how important the judgments of the press are. I'm firmly convinced that if the… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
I'll wager there isn't a human being on earth who doesn't believe in luck, however rational they pretend to be in public… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
The poem in Where Good Swimmers Drown are love poems. But love poems that defy the divisions between emotion and intellect, private… — Jesse Lee Kercheval Copy Share Image
“A good opinion of ourselves is exceedingly necessary in private life, but absolutely necessary in public life, and of the utmost importance… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
That's the thing about a book: You're in the public life for a little bit, and then you sort of go away… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
“Nothing was more characteristic of Sir Walter Pole than Surprize. His eyes grew large, his eyebrows rose half an inch upon his… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“I do not believe that Mr. Jefferson ever hated me. On the contrary, I believe he always like me: but he detested… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I made my mistakes, but in all of my years in public life, I have never profited, never profited from public serviceI… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“The herd instinct of the mob was not yet as offensively powerful in public life as it is today; freedom in what… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“He's a well known entrepreneur. His products have changed the world. He created the world's largest personal-computer software company. He's written more… — Andrew MacDermott Copy Share Image
“Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Because of my life experience and because of my public life experience, I have the ability to lead this nation and to… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
“This post-Christian confusion—MacIntyre calls it “emotivism”—now shapes American public life. In such an environment, the purpose of moral discourse, he writes, “[becomes]… — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share Image
Obama is not just a powerful speaker, but a thinker engaged with the ideas of his country and his age--this argument by… — Martha Minow Copy Share Image
Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
My relationship with God through Christ has given me meaning and direction. My faith has made a big difference in my personal… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up… — Rutherford Birchard Hayes Copy Share Image
“Holiness does not come from self-worth. Holiness comes from the power and the enabling of the Holy Spirit through the grace of… — Matthew Robert Payne Copy Share Image
“Ever since 1792 the Revolutionary and counter-Revolutionary poles of French public life exemplified and reinforced the two-fold division of the country: for… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
William Wilberforce...w as a great man who impacted the Western world as few others have done. Blessed with brains, charm, influence and… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image