Quotes About Public

Public utility must be the first consideration.

No greater mistake can be made than to assume that newspapers are correct indices of public opinion.

Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Only the technology has changed. The public's appetite for sensational true-crime stories has remained exactly the same.

We twentieth-century Christians have chosen the way of compromise. We withdraw our Christian consciousness from the fields of public, commercial, and social life. When we enter these fields we are compelled to accept, for purposes of discussion, the secular frame of reference.

I'm not a movie star. People know me, but they don't necessarily know what they know me for. I get recognised, but it's not like Justin Bieber. It's a nice thing, people are cool.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

A President cannot always be popular.

This is pretty much what the Democratic party has come to: getting to the polls the maximum number possible of the least-informed and most easily swayed voters, and constantly trawling for more.

When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol. So, a movie like 'The Artist' that costs $14 million, has to go out and compete with movies that cost $140 million. How does David deal with Goliath?

A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.

The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.

A friend of mine, Warren Lemming, has this theory: if you're famous, it's as if you've got a golden monkey on your shoulder. When people come up to talk to you, they just see the monkey.

[There's] a culture clash that's happening all over the world between bewigged and bestockinged officials who think that they can rule over us, [and] a public who is no longer content with that arrangement.

Well, if you don't want me to show you affection in public-" "Do," he interrupted. "Please. Touch me. All the time. All ways.

Other people will always appear to move with dedication and consequence. How else does a person behave when people are watching?

The woman in red was surrounded by the crowd and she was alone. It was utterly public but intensely private.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on their own. It should instead regulate uses--like public distributions of copies of copyrighted work--that connect directly to the economic incentive copyright law was intended to foster.

We take this for granted in America today: a democracy in which the first test of credibility is not votes, or broad public support, but money.

I was the British spy who had come out of the woodwork and told it how it really was, and anything I said to the contrary only enforced the myth. And since I was writing for a public hooked on Bond and desperate for the antidote, the myth stuck.

The trouble is, when professional spies go out of their way to make a definitive statement about one of their own, the public tends to believe the opposite: which puts us all back where we started.

The mockingjay trend holds a powerful message of political solidarity. The public tells Kat, "We're behind you. We believe in you. We're ready to follow, and continue what you started.

The iMac was also Jony's coming-out party, the first product that gained him public attention.