Quotes About Public life

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

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I allow to show in my public life.

When one chooses a life as a public personality they give up certain levels of privacy but in one's home and intimate moments everyone should be protected.

We need to understand why there is a void of participation in public life from the Muslim community and why it is a growing issue, and we need to understand the impact of this on wider civil society.

When your private life has been dragged into public space, you tend to attain a zen-like composure.

I had to divorce my husband, the prime minister. I found it terribly overwhelming.

These manly sentiments, in private life, make the good citizen; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

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

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

Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.

My life, I swear, is, like, 75% public. I have a very small percentage of my life that is private. But I do keep that private life private.

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!

It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.

Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.

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.

My life is going to continue to be public, and I just accept that.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

Men in public life did their best to avoid accidental events or actions from being seen as unlucky. On a famous occasion during the civil war, Caesar tripped when disembarking from a ship on the shores of Africa and fell flat on his face. With his talent for improvisation, he spread out his arms and embraced the earth as a symbol of conquest. By quick thinking he turned a terrible omen of failure into one of victory.

My impression of Abramovich is that he loves football, his club, and his players. He wants to know everything that is going on and is very passionate. Berlusconi, too, loves his club, but he was a man of the people and conducted his life in public.

My father was a public figure all my life, and so the presidency was an extension of that. I guess you get used to it, though you can stand back occasionally and think, 'Boy, this is really weird!'

These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

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.

For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.