Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.
I have been called many things in public life, but the cap that best fits is that of the centrist dad.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
When I came out in September 1994, I was, as far as I know, the only out lesbian in British public life.
You don't know how long you have in public life... I want to make the best of it while I've got the role.
My life philosophy is that you need a boring private life if you want to have a more exciting public life.
You know, when you're in public life, everything you do is out there. But I am proud to stand on my record.
You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
I would dare say that most anyone in public life, if they stay in public long enough, is not treated fairly.
What I've learned is that living in public life... it's impossible to have everybody like you. No matter what you do.
Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.
Politics and public life are not for the faint of heart. It has been and always will be a noisy and cantankerous place.
Look, there's no place and no point in public life, in any life, for a lot of the things Scott Lively says and believes.
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.
In public life, differences should not deter us from acknowledging the good work done by others whom we may not agree with.
On the whole, my disposition is to say yes, unless I've got good reason to say no, and I think that's being in public life.
I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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.
The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.
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.
I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.
Negative personal attacks have no place in public life and serve to erode public confidence in our basic institutions of government.
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.
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.
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.
I've lost count of the number of websites that try to 'out' every Muslim in public life as an extremist or Islamist of some shape or form.
Everything in American public life, when it comes to race relations, serves as a frame for a history of violence and degrading humiliation.
Government has crowded out the role of many social institutions, including the Church, that have been a great force for good in public life.
Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to me.
It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.
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.
When I make a contribution in debates and in our public life, the House wants to hear what I say. It goes quiet - it wants to know what my opinion is.
We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's good-bye to public life in the way that you try to communicate with an audience playfully, like we're friends, beyond the work you are actually paid for.
Most elected officials don't want you to know about the world of political fundraising because they fear that it paints an unflattering portrait of public life.
Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge the private is a life not worth having.
Entering public life as a woman - be it as a politician, journalist, expert or activist - makes you the target of the most sinister threats, abuse and language.
The only reward in a public life is public progress. You stand back and say, 'What did I get out of it?' You look around, and the place is better, and that's it.
Life after the White House found Dad enjoying having his grandchildren around and letting go of all the enormous burden he shouldered throughout his public life.
I decided I didn't want to have a totally public life. When the fan magazines started wanting to take pictures of me making sandwiches for my husband, I said no.
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.
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.
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.
Our common realm is not and cannot be stripped of values - I absolutely reject the idea that religion should somehow be tolerated but not encouraged in public life.