Quotes of: Public-schools Keyword

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

William Ralph Inge

Victory must be assured in advance. And the American public must be all for it from the outset.

Evan Thomas

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." [ , February 25, 1933]

Cyril Connolly

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

I. F. Stone

I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.

Dan Pfeiffer

I've never been able to control my public image.

Erica Jong

The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.

Henry Hazlitt

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector.

John Gates

Public sector employees are the eyes and ears on the ground for the communities they serve.

James P. Hoffa

I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public, and they've got to rebuild the trust with the American public.

Billy Tauzin

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

Peter Ueberroth

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.

Timothy Thomas Fortune

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

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Anne Wojcicki

I'm not sure that it matters as much to women as to our male colleagues to have the public adulation and be on the public mind.

Jenny Shipley

Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I'll stay down here and get the data. But nobody's ever given a parade for a robot. Nobody's ever named a high school after a robot. So when I don my public-educ...

Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Culture jamming is enjoying a resurgence, in part because of technological advancements but also more pertinently, because of the good old rules of supply and demand. Something not far from the surfaces of the public psyche is delighted to see the ic...

No Logo

There is, of course, this to be said for the Omnibus Book in general and this one in particular. When you buy it, you have got something. The bulk of this volume makes it almost the ideal paper-weight. The number of its pages assures its posessor of ...

The World of Jeeves

If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine, evolution of slavery and no laws against child abuse or spousal abuse. I was afraid to challenge ...

Mary Griffith

During this time (at high school) I discovered the Public Library... It was here that I found a source of knowledge and the means to acquire it by reading, a habit of learning which I still follow to this day. I also became interested in chemistry an...

Sydney Brenner