Public life Quotes · Page 7

The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal…

— Hailey Baldwin

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Mark Shields

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

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

[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

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

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

— Patti Smith

The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That…

— Mark Steyn

Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families - especially their children - should not…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

In the time I've spent in public life, one of the things I've learned is that some issues look a lot different…

— John F. Kerry

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been…

— Bernard Baruch

Progress is dependent upon a productive and dynamic tension between institutionalism and insurrectionism. Insurrectionists keep our institutions honest. Insurrection us are stewards…

— Christopher Hayes

Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person…

— Barack Obama

“my career in public life, I have had the rare privilege of being a participant in many of the defining moments of…

— Pranab Mukherjee

As humanism begins to dominate the state, the consequence is complete hostile annexation of the church or persecution by separation. Religion is…

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

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

The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it…

— James Howard Kunstler

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

— Benjamin Franklin

In contemporary society secular humanism has been singled out by critics and proponents alike as a position sharply distinguishable from any religious…

— Paul Kurtz

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

— Tim Kaine

“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

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

“The integration of mothers and babies into public life was viewed with ridicule and alarm in many societies.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

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

— Heather Matarazzo

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 will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

— Benjamin Disraeli

However long I serve in public life, I'll stand on that basic liberty of the right to keep and bear arms.

— Mike Pence

Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years.

— Swami Vivekananda

Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.

— Elmer Davis

So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.

— Princess Diana

“I've always felt that the best way to get rid of any enemy is to make a friend of him. It's a…

— Herman E. Talmadge

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

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