Quotes of: Public-figures Keyword

I will provide friendly and courteous service and will work closely with all departments in the county. I will abide by the Texas Information Act in providing information to the public.

Anne Grant

It's not my fault if the media and the public are more interested in Tiger Woods than in women farm workers.

Gloria Allred

The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.

Bruce Jackson

Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides.

Noah Feldman

Dwight Eisenhower, the Republican nominee in 1952, made a strong public commitment to ending the war in Korea, where fighting had reached a stalemate.

Robert Dallek

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

I guess we're all composed of a lot of mistakes; we just have to figure out how to take our mistakes and make something good out of them.

Chips of Red Paint

I’m not perfect. And I don’t have to be. I can figure it out as I go, and as long as I do the best I can, it’s okay if I still screw up.

Covet

If you don’t know what your barriers are, it’s impossible to figure out how to tear them down.

The Disciplined Leader: Keeping the Focus on What Really Matters

Get done with the damn sibling rivalry and let's get back with the task at hand here so we can figure out what we're going to do.

Darkness Comes This Way

He was the hardest person to figure out I had ever met, which was saying something. I knew girls, after all....

Exiled to Iowa. Send Help. And Couture

The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.

Foundation and Empire

The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic

The Fault in Our Stars

Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

Handle with Care

He’d said he couldn’t let her go. She couldn’t figure out how they could stay together.

His Billion Dollar Dilemma

I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of business applied to the soul.

Born Losers: A History of Failure in America

I figure whatever I choose to create, I'll be neglecting somebody - so my art may as well make me happy. - Audrey Niffenegger

The Bookshop Book

The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold. Or, if your ad revenue or your seven-figure salary or your privileged sexual status depend on it, it is an operable condition.

The Beauty Myth

If you could figure out how to live with family then you'd gone a long way toward finding your peace.

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painti...

Karen DeCrow

The harsh reality is that if you are middle-aged, write computer code for a living, and earn a six-figure salary, you're headed for the unemployment lines. Your market value declines as you age, and it becomes harder and harder to get a job.

Vivek Wadhwa