Public Life Quotes

• So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.

  Princess Diana

  People, Never Forget, Aids

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• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.

  Hillary Clinton

  Women, Home, Feminist

  Campaign remarks, Chicago, Ill., 16 Mar. 1992

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• We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we made.

  Edward Kennedy

  Believe, Compassion, Stewardship

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• And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Running, Nature

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

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• There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci. The age of Elizabeth was also the age of Shakespeare. And the New Frontier for which I campaign in public life, can also be a New Frontier for American art.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Achievement, Presidential

  Response to letter sent by Theodate Johnson on September 13, 1960. "John F. Kennedy Quotations: The Arts", www.jfklibrary.org.

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• My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you. She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Grandmother, Challenges, Passed Away

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• I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.

  Tony Abbott

  Kids, Thinking, Wife

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Insane, Desire, Getting High

  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.

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• 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

  Drama, Energy, Way

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• 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

  Religious, Believe, Church

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• 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

  Reading, Diversity, Meditation

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• 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

  Running, Games, Government

  "Does credibility matter to the BCCI?". Interview with Raunak Kapoor, www.espncricinfo.com. August 5, 2013.

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

  Billy Collins

  Good Things, Shelves

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• 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

  Compassion, Listening To Others, Skills

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• 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

  Character, Dwelling Place, Civilization

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• 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

  Play, Hopeful, Vision

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• 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

  Men, Typical, Politician

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• 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

  Space, Citizens, Politician

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

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

  James A. Garfield

  Life, Men, Risk

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.636, Best Books on

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• 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

  Home, Thinking, People

  Interview with Piers Morgan, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 14, 2011.

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• 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

  Children, Party, Believe

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• 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

  Leadership, Class, People

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• 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

  Skills, People, Democracy

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

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• 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

  Jobs, Prayer, Believe

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