Public Life Quotes - Page 10

• There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

  Gavyn Davies

  Writing, Responsibility, Today

  "Resignation statement by Gavyn Davies", www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2004.

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• I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.

  Alexander Downer

  Hate, Kissing, Approach

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

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• Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's the last one, I don't want to record anymore, I don't want to do this any more, I don't want to have a public life.

  Rosanne Cash

  Years, Records, Phases

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• Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Skins, Needs, Tough

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• Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life.

  Plato

  Men, Purpose, Upright Man

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• We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us persevere through abuse and even injury. The internal satisfaction of a good conscience is always present, and time will do us justice in the minds of the people, even those at present the most prejudiced against us.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Grateful, People, Justice

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.202

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• Compare the emotional vocabulary available to a leader (confidence, satisfaction, indignation) with the emotions not permitted (regret, embarrassment, dread, angst, mortification, anger, surprise, wonder, doubt), and it becomes apparent why perfectly normal people, upon entering public life, transform into cartoons - because they are not free to express what a normal person would feel in their situation.

  John MacLachlan Gray

  Regret, Emotional, Vocabulary

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• Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against the poisoning of the soul must begin. Our whole public life today is like a hothouse for sexual ideas and simulations. Just look at the bill of fare served up in our movies, vaudeville and theaters, and you will hardly be able to deny that this is not the right kind of food, particularly for the youth. Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political and cultural idea.

  Adolf Hitler

  Art, Struggle, Ideas

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

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• If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.

  Robertson Davies

  Life, Government, Stupidity

  "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks". Book by Robertson Davies, 1949.

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• In a Society becoming steadily more privatized with private homes, cars, computers, offices and shopping centers, the public component of our lives is disappearing. It is more and more important to make the cities inviting, so we can meet our fellow citizens face to face and experience directly through our senses. Public life in good quality public spaces is an important part of a democratic life and a full life.

  Jan Gehl

  Home, Cities, Shopping

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• You've only got to be in public life for about a week before you start to question if the newspapers are even giving you today's date with any accuracy!

  Jonathan Lynn

  Funny, Giving, Today

  Jonathan Lynn, Antony Jay (1988). “The complete Yes, Minister: the diaries of a cabinet minister”, HarperCollins

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• From these activists we can learn a crucial lesson: without citizens creating the institutions necessary for facilitating the growth of public deliberation, democracy will be a meaningless term. Without political leaders articulating this idea and acting upon it, public life and citizenship will continue to stagnate.

  Kevin Mattson

  Ideas, Creating, Leader

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• I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life

  Hillary Clinton

  Life, Husband, Women

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

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• The ruling quality of leaders adaptive capacity, is what allows true leaders to make the nimble decisions that bring success. Adaptive capacity is also what allows some people to transcend the setbacks and losses that come with age and to reinvent themselves again and again.

  Warren G

  Loss, People, Decision

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• Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.

  Confucius

  Relationship, Forgiveness, Faith

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• America was founded on prayer. Therefore, the removal of prayer from its public life was a central part of its fall from God. A nation that turns away from prayer will ultimately find itself in desperate need of it.

  Jonathan Cahn

  Prayer, Fall, America

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• The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Secret, Purpose

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1981). “Grand Inquisitor”, p.10, A&C Black

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• The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Boredom, Overcoming, Married

  "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985.

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• We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Fighting, Men, Bully

  Nobel Lecture, delivered 5 May 2010, Oslo, Norway

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• I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.

  Tony Abbott

  Catholic, Littles, Uncomfortable

  "Q&A" with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. April 5, 2010.

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• You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Courage, Intelligent, Political

  "Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury, Vol. 2: 1868-1880". Book by Gwendolen Cecil, 1921.

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• To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Life, Inspire, Stills

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• Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Years, Two

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2608, Manonmani Publishers

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• Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Clever, Secret, Three

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Nov 02, 2011

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• I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance of it shall never be a crime in my view, nor bring injury on the individual. I never will by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance. I never had an opinion in politics or religion which I was afraid to own; a reserve on these subjects might have procured me more esteem from some people, but less from myself.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Views, People

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