Quotes About Public

Just as Jesus predicted, what originates in the secret place won't always remain a secret. ... How do we guard -- or maybe it would be more appropriate to say, guard against -- our hearts? How do we monitor what's going on in that secret place that has the potential to go public at any moment?

Circumcision was invisible to the public. A once and done. All male. Decided by parents. The mark of the new covenant is visible and public. It involves daily decisions. It's not gender-specific. It's an all-skate. And while it doesn't require surgery, it's painful. Love requires sacrifice, and sacrifice is always a bit painful.

God had called and equipped David to lead. But it took an act of courage for that call to be recognized by the public.

Loyalty publicly results in leverage privately.

It's not what you are that counts, it's what they think you are.

It's much more stimulating to be marginal, to act without recognition, than to receive public thanks.

Sorridi in pubblico, piangi in pubblico, vivi in pubblico, crepa in pubblico. C'era, sui loro visi, un'emozione schietta, atipica per gli attori. Stasera erano al telegiornale. E' la cosa peggiore veder soffrire i propri figli.

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.

The difficulty, as I saw it, was that she was trying to manage a public self whereas she was by nature a miniaturist who excelled at drawing into her field of activity nuances, intimations, unspoken thought, the most tenuous of personal statements. She was better at the glancing criticism than at spontaneous magnanimity

All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.

I'd learned long before this that the louder and more publicly a person talked about his faith, the more he probably had to cover up.

Public perception of the Westminster arena, with all its posturings, does little to engender a sense of voter belief.

In Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.

After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.

So what if I am an actor? MGR, Jayalalithaa, Raj Babbar, Sunil Dutt - all made successful politicians.

It's unbelievable that people have the time and inclination to be as negative as they are on a public platform about people who accomplish whatever they do in the public eye.

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

Laws to protect 'public health' are potentially infinite, especially once they no longer have to be supported by any research whatsoever.

We actors get a lot of love, but at times, we get double the amount of negativity for no reason whatsoever.

Republicans run the machine when it's their turn, and then hand the wheel over to Democrats when the public has had enough.

I think whenever something is - whenever there's something that affects the public good, then there does need to be some form of public oversight.

Whenever you have large numbers of people who are dying for preventable reasons, that constitutes a public health issue.

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous.