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source: Letter "to a leading editor" on April 10, 1875. "The Life Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes", edited by James Quay Howard, ch. X, p. 144, www.gutenberg.org. 2007.

topic: Insane, Desire, Getting High, Public Life

The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay.

- Richard Rodriguez

topic: Drama, Way, Energy, Public Life

I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.

- Jim Wallis

topic: Religious, Believe, Church, Public Life, Religious Values

I was deeply moved by Richard Blanco's reading of his inaugural poem-a timely and elegant tribute to the great diversity of American experience. And now comes this fine meditation on his experience of coming to poetry, of making the poem and the months surrounding its making-a testament to the strength and significance of poetry in American culture, something not always seen or easily measured. Today Is For All of Us, One Today is a necessary intervention into the ongoing conversation about the role of poetry in public life.

- Natasha Trethewey

topic: Reading, Diversity, Meditation, Timely, Public Life

Administrators are there because of the fans and the cricketers to run this game, so credibility of a game, or a board, or even a government for that matter, is important irrespective of what you do. If you are in public life it is important,

- Rahul Dravid

topic: Running, Government, Games, Administrators, Public Life

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.

- Billy Collins

topic: Good Things, Shelves, Public Life

Tim Bee has demonstrated his toughness and his compassion, his ability to lead while at the same time listening to others. These are skills few people in public life have. We need Tim Bee working for us in Congress.

- Jim Kolbe

topic: Compassion, Skills, People, Listening To Others, Public Life

The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it is the physical manifestation of the common good. When you degrade the public realm, you will automatically degrade the quality of your civic life and the character of all the enactments of your public life and communal life that take place there.

- James Howard Kunstler

topic: Character, Civilization, Two, Public Life, Dwelling Place

Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was beginning to sour? I witnessed a similar shift in taste in my own time. In the 1960s, while a hopeful vision of a just society arose again, countless poems and plays concerning politics and public life were written, read, and performed. But after the hope diminished and public life seemed less and less trustworthy, this subject was less in style.

- Susan Griffin

topic: Play, Hopeful, Style, Public Life

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.

- Lyn Nofziger

topic: Men, Typical, Politician, Public Life

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.

- Rebecca Solnit

source: "Democracy should be exercised regularly, on foot" by Rebecca Solnit, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2006.

topic: Space, Citizens, Politician, Public Life

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

- James A. Garfield

topic: Men, Risk, Succeed, Public Life

And I think what people in New Jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that I've been in public life is what you see is what you get. And I'm no different when I'm sitting with you than I am when I'm at home or anyplace else.

- Chris Christie

topic: Home, Thinking, People, Public Life

It's hard to think of anything that is more socially beneficial than raising children well. It needs to be valued and respected, I believe by everyone in public life regardless of your political party.

- Kerry Healey

topic: Children, Party, Believe, Public Life

There are many in public life who deserve only our praise and admiration. But there are too many who are products of a class that knows little other than spin and the machinations of politics. Little wonder that leadership of the transforming sort is so hard to come by. The danger is that this may be permanent. Where our best people shun politics because the profession isn't honoured as it once was, this only serves to make the profession even less honoured.

- Tim Soutphommasane

topic: Leadership, Class, People, Public Life

In effective, sustained citizen action, people learn the skills of public life with which to act effectively. "Commons," or the common wealth-the public goods that are objects of sustainable public action-become not only occasions for collaboration by invaluable sources of citizen education in their own right because they are the occasions for learning such skills.

- Harry Boyte

source: Harry Chatten Boyte (1989). “CommonWealth: A Return to Citizen Politics”

topic: Skills, People, Democracy, Public Life

My relationship with God through Christ has given me meaning and direction. My faith has made a big difference in my personal life, and my public life as well. I make personal decisions every day. Some are easy, and some aren't so easy. I have worries just like you do. And I pray. I pray for guidance. I pray for patience. I firmly believe in the power of intercessory prayer; and I know that I could not do my job without it.

- George W. Bush

topic: Jobs, Prayer, Believe, Intercessory Prayer, Personal Decisions

Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.

- Elmer Davis

topic: Government, Average, Voters, Public Life

Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents.

- Frederick Scott Oliver

source: Frederick Scott Oliver (1934). “Politics and politicians”

topic: Mean, Men, Political, Reducing, Public Life

The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind.

- Anthony Holden

topic: Retirement, Princess, Years, Public Life

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

- Max Weber

source: Max Weber (2013). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.155, Routledge

topic: Fate, World, Disenchantment, Disenchanted, Public Life

For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.

- Edward Kennedy

topic: Believe, Journey, Years, Justice For All, Liberty And Justice For All

Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

- Joseph Pulitzer

topic: Publicity, Moral, Public Speaking, Public Life

Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on those objects which men are likely to ignore. There is a tremendous field for women as active protagonists of new ideas and new methods of political and social housekeeping. When organized and conscious of their power to influence their surroundings, women can use their newly acquired freedom in a great many ways to mold the world into a better place to live in.

- Edward Bernays

topic: Freedom, Men, Ideas, Supplements, Public Life

Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.

- Ashley Judd

topic: Husband, Giving, Left Alone, Public Life

When abroad, behaveto everyone as if interviewing an honored guest; in directing the people, act as if you were assisting at a great sacrafice; DO NOT DO TO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD NOT LIKE DONE TO YOURSELF: so there will be no murmuring against you in the country, and none in the family; your public life will arouse no ill-will nor your private life any resentment.

- Confucius

topic: Life, Country, Ill Will, Public Life

This is a sad day for all of us, and to none is it sadder than to me. Everything that I have worked for, everything that I have believed in during my public life, has crashed into ruins. There is only one thing left for me to do: That is, to devote what strength and powers I have to forwarding the victory of the cause for which we have to sacrifice so much... I trust I may live to see the day when Hitlerism has been destroyed and a liberated Europe has been re-established.

- Neville Chamberlain

source: Neville Chamberlain's Speech in the House of Commons, hansard.millbanksystems.com. September 3, 1939.

topic: Sacrifice, Europe, Victory, Liberated, Public Life

When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.

- Pope Pius XI

topic: Kings, Real, Blessing, Peace And Harmony, Public Life

Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs keep most of us in line. Private lives are lived out in the presence of family, friends, and neighbors who must be considered and respected even though the rules and proscriptions are looser than what's allowed in public. But in our secret lives, inside our own heads, almost anything goes.

- Robert Fulghum

topic: Jobs, Law, Secret, Public Life

I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice.

- Richard M. Nixon

source: Speech at press conference, 17 November 1973, in 'New York Times' 18 November 1973, p. 62

topic: Years, Justice, Cents, Public Life

Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.

- Miguel de Cervantes

topic: Winning, May, Today, Public Life

One of the criteria by which we measure the worth of public figures is whether or not their brand of bull is in step with the current Zeitgeist.

- John MacLachlan Gray

topic: Bulls, Steps, Zeitgeist, Public Figures, Public Life

The common man, no matter how sharp and tough, actually enjoys having the wool pulled over his eyes, and makes it easier for the puller.

- P. T. Barnum

topic: Eye, Men, Wool, Public Life

I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.

- W. Somerset Maugham

source: W. Somerset Maugham (2017). “Plays Volume One”, p.171, Random House

topic: Thinking, House Of Cards, Iron, Public Life

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.

- Karl Kraus

topic: Funny, Clever, Stupid, Demagoguery, Public Life

Obviously we don't have 300 million people. We haven't got a big army. We don't have Hollywood. We're a medium small-sized country. We have to do what medium small-sized countries do, which-even though we're not smarter than other people-is to make ourselves seem to be smarter. We have to work harder and know more than other people.

- John Ralston Saul

topic: Country, Hard Work, Army, Public Life

It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Parliament, Honorable, Persist, Public Life

To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.

- Aristophanes

topic: Lying, Climbing, Essentials, Plunder, Public Life

A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.

- Charles Dickens

source: "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby". Book by Charles Dickens, Ch. 14, 1838 - 1839.

topic: Men, Society, Faults, Public Life

In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Successful, Order, People, Order To Succeed, Public Life

To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Insult, Praise, Virtue, Public Life

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

- Martin Sheen

topic: Vegetables, People, Trying, Public Life

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