Quotes of: Public-life Keyword

I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.

Garry Trudeau

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.

Jock Sturges

I learned in a very public setting what works and doesn't work for a healthy lifestyle.

Michael De Luca

The public likes to think that women only care about contraception.

Nikki Haley

When I think of the years when I had no faith, what I am struck by, first of all, is how little this lack disrupted my conscious life. I lived not without God, nor wish his absence, but in a mild abeyance of belief, drifting through the days on a tid...

My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

I craved a form of naive realism. I paid special attention, I craned my readerly neck whenever a London street I knew was mentioned, or a style of frock, a real public person, even a make of car. Then, I thought, I had a measure, I could guage the qu...

Sweet Tooth

Here's another way to put it: You're here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We're going public with this, as public as a city on a hill. If I make you light-bearers, you don't think I'm going to hi...

Holy Bible: New International Version

To live with integrity, it is important to know what's right and what's wrong, to be educated morally. However, merely KNOWING is not enough. Virtuous character matters more than moral knowledge. The reason is simple: like the self-confessing apostle...

A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good

People are more willing to support the exercise of authority over themselves when they believe it to be an objective, neutral feature of the natural world. This was the idea behind the concept of the divine right of kings. By making the king appear t...

John Hasnas

If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating in public are today.

Myriam Miedzian

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

George Henry Lewes

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it.

John Wayne

I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.

Virginia Woolf

Ideas are cheap -- making something of them is difficult

Writing for Scholarly Publication

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Abraham Lincoln

The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate.

Andrew Motion

Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.

Kate Smith

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

Louis D. Brandeis

Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.

Nate Silver

I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.

Patricia Highsmith

The police feel that most of the public are against them and that there is a lot of bad feeling.

Peter James