Quotes about Public Life

The job has left me with a healthy disregard for what you might call Public Life. I have no desire now to go to receptions, to be seen at gatherings of the great and the good, to stand and be bored to death by men in grey suits. Votes: 3

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic. Votes: 1

Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life. Votes: 1

So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them. Votes: 1

These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero. Votes: 1

For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life. Votes: 1

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. Votes: 1

My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative. Votes: 1

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life. Votes: 1

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought. Votes: 1

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure. Votes: 1

To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections. Votes: 1

Despite being in public life, I value my own privacy immensely and would be as concerned as anyone else if I thought my mobile phone records could be easily available to officials across government. Votes: 1

I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values. Votes: 1

I try to protect my loved ones, the people I share my life with, because they don't have a public life like me. I want to keep their lives private out of respect for them. Votes: 1

Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training grounds for developing the knowledge and the qualities that are needed in public life. Votes: 1

I actually think the civil service, who are the malignancy at the heart of public life, have consciously prevented, talked ministers out of, made it difficult regulatory-wise, to allow more pressure on alternative energy sources to grow. Votes: 1

The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society. Votes: 1

Having a Christian worldview shapes my decision-making with respect to all aspects of my life. I always respect people in public life who are principled, and those principles have to be connected to something. And my faith is what serves as the anchor and directs my actions. Votes: 1

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC. Votes: 1

Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That's the way you sell houses... that's also the way you win over constituency. Votes: 1

Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that. Votes: 1

Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens. Votes: 1

And I think what people in New Jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that I've been in public life is what you see is what you get. And I'm no different when I'm sitting with you than I am when I'm at home or anyplace else. Votes: 1

What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the other supplies facts, and the British are traditionally empiricists so they/we have a resistance to theory and to theoreticians playing too prominent a role in public life. Votes: 1

King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens. Votes: 1

For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make. Votes: 1

My private life became public. Votes: 0

[The] public path of life Is dirty. Votes: 0

I've never had a very great public life. Votes: 0

Public life is constantly aware of the volcano. Votes: 0

My whole life has been dedicated to public service. Votes: 0

The public is a part of my real life. Votes: 0

I certainly do not support excluding faith from public life. Votes: 0

Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life. Votes: 0

I definitely lived my life like I wasn't in the public eye. Votes: 0

In my public life, I'm just a guy who enjoys having fun. Votes: 0

I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life. Votes: 0

Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don't they? Votes: 0

Public life has become so gladiatorial. Every day, another reputation bites the dust. Votes: 0

The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning. Votes: 0

The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life. Votes: 0

Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life! Votes: 0

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink. Votes: 0

No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty. Votes: 0

I thought, I'm out in my life, that doesn't involve my public life. Votes: 0

I hadn't planned on or expected to have a public dimension in my life. Votes: 0

Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide, Votes: 0

An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public. Votes: 0

My life is going to continue to be public, and I just accept that. Votes: 0

Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life. Votes: 0

Washington, in fact, had very little private life, but was eminently a public character. Votes: 0

To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life. Votes: 0

I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names. Votes: 0

Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life. Votes: 0

I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service. Votes: 0

The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher. Votes: 0

The most interesting part of my life is of no concern to the public. Votes: 0

Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life. Votes: 0

Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out. Votes: 0

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life. Votes: 0

No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life. Votes: 0

Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance! Votes: 0

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director. Votes: 0

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye. Votes: 0

My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well. Votes: 0

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life. Votes: 0

By the very fact of public life, one seems to lose humanity in people's eyes. Votes: 0

No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life. Votes: 0

Our ideology is intolerant...and peremptorily demands...the complete transformation of public life to its ideas. Votes: 0

Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life. Votes: 0

I am willing to make any part of my life public, if it will help others. Votes: 0

No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story. Votes: 0

If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think. Votes: 0

Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice. Votes: 0

I like to keep some things to myself, because its called a private life, not public. Votes: 0

I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it. Votes: 0

If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets. Votes: 0

Living your life in the public eye is a greater burden than most people can imagine. Votes: 0

People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed. Votes: 0

I didn't write about aspects of my public life because that's a small part of my life. Votes: 0

I think I've been very, very lucky in my life, and I do believe in public service. Votes: 0

The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob Votes: 0

I spent my whole life avoiding the public eye. At these food shows, I'm open quarry again. Votes: 0

Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye. Votes: 0

I have never run a public company. I spent my entire life working for a private company. Votes: 0

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. Votes: 0

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life. Votes: 0

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure. Votes: 0

Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life. Votes: 0

I've long been really intrigued with what is the ... proper role of faith and religion in public life, Votes: 0

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit. Votes: 0

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life. Votes: 0

I truly believe that women of my generation can bring a new cleansing element to American public life. Votes: 0

I've got to restructure all my personal life now in order to accommodate public service, which is fine. Votes: 0

My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family. Votes: 0

Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders. Votes: 0

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life Votes: 0

The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes. Votes: 0

I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life. Votes: 0

In L.A., you really are in your car all day alone, and there's very little public life. Votes: 0

My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important. Votes: 0

I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important. Votes: 0

You have your private life and you have your public life, and just don’t let them interfere. Votes: 0

Showing your life so public is a mistake sometimes, but I blame myself as much as anyone else. Votes: 0

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library. Votes: 0

I've been so blessed to be part of a family that has dedicated its life to public service. Votes: 0

I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again. Votes: 0

We must fight all that we dislike in public life. We must substitute better ideas for wrong ideas. Votes: 0

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go. Votes: 0

The image you see of me out in public is really different from who I am in real life. Votes: 0

I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice, Votes: 0

It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public, Votes: 0

Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly. Votes: 0

If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life. Votes: 0

I belong to the public. The public made me. The public can break me. I owe them my life. Votes: 0

I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life. Votes: 0

The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems. Votes: 0

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom. Votes: 0

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office. Votes: 0

I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private. Votes: 0

You'd never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life. Votes: 0

Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the intrument as you go along Votes: 0

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions. Votes: 0

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life. Votes: 0

I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America. Votes: 0

Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life. Votes: 0

To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good. Votes: 0

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office. Votes: 0

The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience. Votes: 0

I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life. Votes: 0

However long I serve in public life, I'll stand on that basic liberty of the right to keep and bear arms. Votes: 0

I would dare say that most anyone in public life, if they stay in public long enough, is not treated fairly. Votes: 0

If you make too many things too public, then you end up living your life before the court of public opinion. Votes: 0

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. Votes: 0

Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation. Votes: 0

I don't see life divided into public and private, secular and sacred. It's all an open place of service before our God. Votes: 0

Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life. Votes: 0

A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear. Votes: 0

Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals. Votes: 0

Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life. Votes: 0

The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance. Votes: 0

Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years. Votes: 0

You know, when you're in public life, everything you do is out there. But I am proud to stand on my record. Votes: 0

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person. Votes: 0

I was able to grow up and do silly things and have a life with only a small amount of public scrutiny. Votes: 0

I've dedicated my life to public service, and I feel it's still a noble profession. However, I also understand it's a contact sport. Votes: 0

The real intolerance in Canadian society is shown by those who would deny people of faith the right to participate in public life. Votes: 0

In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you. Votes: 0

Lowly, unpurposeful, and random as they appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life must grow. Votes: 0

It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer. Votes: 0

I always thought Henry Kissinger was a disaster because he lies like most people breathe and you can't have that in public life. Votes: 0

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull. Votes: 0

We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life. Votes: 0

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance. Votes: 0

All of a sudden your whole life becomes a public issue. Money, wealth, people, prestige - all of that suddenly comes into play. Votes: 0

I'm not an exhibitionist; I don't have a compulsion to share the ins and outs of my daily life with a public audience. Votes: 0

To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life. Votes: 0

My goal is to try to tell the public that America could use more science and technology in all aspects of its life. Votes: 0

I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked. Votes: 0

I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all. Votes: 0

I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one another. Votes: 0

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life. Votes: 0

A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself. Votes: 0

I try not to think about my public life. I focus on my private life, and that's just the best way to live. Votes: 0

Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere. Votes: 0

Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time. Votes: 0

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana. Votes: 0

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. Votes: 0

I'm irreverent, I'm not politically correct, and I feel that I'm protected in my private life because I live a very public private life. Votes: 0

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me. Votes: 0

I just want to make sure that public service doesn't have to be an occupation, but it needs to be a way of life. Votes: 0

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy. Votes: 0

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals. Votes: 0

I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity. Votes: 0

There are turning points in everyone's life when we have to fight, even if we have to do it by ourselves and in public. Votes: 0

Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin. Votes: 0

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work. Votes: 0

About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private. Votes: 0

Unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties Votes: 0

When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know? Votes: 0

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world. Votes: 0

A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences. Votes: 0

Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded. Votes: 0

I've never encountered someone in public life who has less desire to hold office than Michelle Obama, though she is incredibly gifted at retail politics. Votes: 0

Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled. Votes: 0

I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene. Votes: 0

Rudy Giuliani needed to feel safe because he turned his life into a public mess. A public mess that the "New York Tabloids" covered daily. Votes: 0

In our public life, California is on the verge of being a failed state, and no state has failed in the history of this country. Votes: 0

I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works. Votes: 0

Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places. Votes: 0

We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen. Votes: 0

I didn't grow up in public life. I lived with my mother in Boston, not in Washington, DC, so I was somewhat sheltered from that. Votes: 0

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life. Votes: 0

I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I allow to show in my public life. Votes: 0

The fact that ‘attention seeking’ is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every scale. Votes: 0

The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather. Votes: 0

I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower. Votes: 0

We ought to assure the public that we'll have a full and complete and transparent investigation whenever there's a loss of life because of police action. Votes: 0

I've been a fascinated observer of grand public funerals since I was a kid, starting with the life-altering black-and-white images of President John F. Kennedy's funeral. Votes: 0

I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to. Votes: 0

On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics. Votes: 0

Though there are laws against blasphemy and insult to religion in many European countries, France has institutionalised its anti-clerical past by proscribing religion from public life. Votes: 0

The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should be a national embarrassment. Votes: 0

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys. Votes: 0

It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing. Votes: 0

Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see. Votes: 0

Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families - especially their children - should not be treated callously or thoughtlessly. Votes: 0

In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker. Votes: 0

Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment. Votes: 0

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs. Votes: 0

Every day of my life is going out in public and seeing people's lives and listening to stories - all that kind of stuff musically inspires me. Votes: 0

With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you're in the public eye, it's just amplified, that's all. Votes: 0

What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people? Votes: 0

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; Oh life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs. Votes: 0

When I came out in the public about my struggles with alcohol and drugs, that's probably the most vulnerable I have ever been in my entire life. Votes: 0

My life, I swear, is, like, 75% public. I have a very small percentage of my life that is private. But I do keep that private life private. Votes: 0

Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims the streets for ordinary people. Votes: 0

Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian opposite, or eviscerated from public life. Votes: 0

The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord. Votes: 0

If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U.K. Christians are illiberal, too. Votes: 0

Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection. Votes: 0

The Supreme Court's 1947 decision which introduced the wall of separation between church and state 'has fueled a movement to sterilize anything in American public life from religion.' Votes: 0

Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property. Votes: 0

Life is a republic where the individuals are for the most part unconscious that while they are working for themselves they are also working for the public good. Votes: 0

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world. Votes: 0

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life. Votes: 0

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully. Votes: 0

I just have to remind myself that my daily quotidie in life has almost nothing to do with any aspect of my professional life as a public figure. Votes: 0

Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the preferences people bring to public life. Votes: 0

[Donald] Trump wasn't even in public life back in 2002-2003. There was nothing Trump could have done one way or the other no matter what he thought about it. Votes: 0

I came into public life during the 1960s when a whole bunch of us believed in our ability to change the world. And we did a lot of things. Votes: 0

If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been. Votes: 0

The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state. Votes: 0

I want it to be remembered that Ozzy was the first celebrity who was brave enough to open up his private life to the public. He was the first. Votes: 0

I think it will be very challenging for someone who has not been in prominent public life in the age of Twitter to go out on the campaign trail. Votes: 0

Like surgeons trying to save a life, the conservators and preservers at New York City museums dedicate themselves to ensuring the longevity of works of art for public view. Votes: 0

It has been the greatest privilege of my adult and public life to have served, for 32 years, as the Member of Parliament for our local Highlands and Islands communities. Votes: 0

I'm very, very happy with my recognition/lack of recognition in England in terms of my life. In terms of household name-age. The public's memory is very short, luckily. Votes: 0

Public attitudes follow real life experience, and as marriage equality has spread to more communities, Americans have seen more freedom, stronger families, more protection for children and more fairness. Votes: 0

Sometimes I got scared of being too honest, because being in the public eye, I have always tried to hide my personal life. But I realized that isn't healthy. Votes: 0

I thought making speeches for money was a much better thing than getting connected with any one group or company, as so many people who leave public life do. Votes: 0

The schools, the courts, the media - all seem determined to erase Christian influence from public life and confine religion to the four walls of the church or home. Votes: 0

Life was certainly more entertaining when people were indulging their vices as opposed to going to meetings to indulge in a new vice: discussing their innermost thoughts in public. Votes: 0

Extreme weather threatens our energy and electric grid, federal buildings, transportation infrastructure, access to natural resources, public health, our relationships across the globe, and many other aspects of life. Votes: 0

You've only got to be in public life for about a week before you start to question if the newspapers are even giving you today's date with any accuracy! Votes: 0

If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people. Votes: 0

Don't be carried away by beauty, for the faeces also stays in the rectum of ravishing faces, and their private life is not beautiful as their public life...fear beauty! Votes: 0

The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, are creating and securing the conditions necessary for a really profound revival of religious life Votes: 0

I had been overexposed in a particular way because my marriage to an extremely successful older man meant I was involved in his public life as well as my own. Votes: 0

The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay. Votes: 0

My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother Shirley, who was fighting a very private, solitary battle with mental illness. Votes: 0

Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they happen to have been good killers. Votes: 0

When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony. Votes: 0

advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework. Votes: 0

I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life. Votes: 0

I was motivated to go into public life because of the great chasm that exists between justice and injustice in our country. Nowhere is that divide greater than in America's cities. Votes: 0

The number of people in public life who appear on television or on the big screen who are content to be who they are, you can probably count on one hand. Votes: 0

The number of people in public life who appear on television or on the big screen who are content to be who they are, you can probably count on one hand. Votes: 0

What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture. Votes: 0

We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the best people in public life if we don't do that. Votes: 0

Families have become models for public life, constructing friendships between individuals of different temperaments, ambitions and ages, even if they are often unsuccessful. People now want, above all, appreciation of their uniqueness. Votes: 0

So much of what passes for public life consists of little more than candidates without ideas, hiring consultants without conviction, to stage campaigns without content. The result, increasingly, is elections without voters. Votes: 0

During his public life, Barack Obama has often referred to his biracial background and itinerant childhood and has said, 'In no other country on Earth is my story even possible.' True. Votes: 0

Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena. Votes: 0

There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said. Votes: 0

I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether its being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry. Votes: 0

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new. Votes: 0

I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And I really enjoy writing - especially my political commentary. Votes: 0

There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific. Votes: 0

I've also said you don't rule any options out, because if you are in public life because you want to make a difference... obviously, you have to be open to those kind of possibilities. Votes: 0

I'm not interested in current events per se, but I am interested in how certain aspects of social or public life that might seem ultra-contemporary actually take their place in a long American continuum. Votes: 0

Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents. Votes: 0

Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents Votes: 0

It's hard to think of anything that is more socially beneficial than raising children well. It needs to be valued and respected, I believe by everyone in public life regardless of your political party. Votes: 0

The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is a state that declares itself supreme over all religious values. Votes: 0

A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is not to do anything which, if found out, will cause his ruin. Votes: 0

I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way. Votes: 0

You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity. Votes: 0

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life Votes: 0

I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss. Votes: 0

With the corporatization and privatization of higher education, it is increasingly more difficult for colleges and universities to expand and deepen democratic public life, produce engaged critical citizens, and operate as democratic public spheres. Votes: 0

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man. Votes: 0

The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tell us something ugly about American public life. Votes: 0

I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second. Votes: 0

I've been around in public life for a long time. I think people know what I stand for. They know that I have strong convictions, committed principles and I'm prepared to stand up for them. Votes: 0

A better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to require that people leave their deepest moral convictions outside politics before they enter. Votes: 0