Quotes of: Public-affairs Keyword

A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, publ...

Robert Reich

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Noam Chomsky

It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair.

Gloria Stuart

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

Agnes de Mille

My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins.

Debra Messing

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

George Bernard Shaw

We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.

Joycelyn Elders

When you love your work then it isn't work, it's your love affair.

Debasish Mridha

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

Madeleine Albright

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Robert Frost

When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.

Rose Tremain

We decide our affairs, then we rest them with God.

Jabo

With a little more patience and a little less temper, a gentler and wiser method might be found in almost every case; and the knot that we cut by some fine heady quarrel-scene in private life, or, in public affairs, by some denunciatory act against w...

A Christmas Sermon

Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality of others, it must seek to correct it, and can do this either by teaching or engaging in public affairs i...

The Dream of Scipio

I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affair...

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

And with a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public affairs, if only because more have been forced through the discipline of showing in writing why A leads to ...

Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors [...] I don't usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this 'hopey changey' stuff, she was right, there ...

Noam Chomsky

Many such an official, upon winning a foothold in City Hall, thinks only of his own cohorts, and his own gain. So it is not surprising that public affairs grow stagnant. Truly, cannot fathom such minds! I can think of nothing so satisfying as doing p...

Gadsby

Once upon a time, man had a love affair with fire.

Swan Song

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor