They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I – I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.

It’s relatively easy to act nice and normal in front of a crowd, or in public. The tricky part is doing it in private.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men’s thoughts, to speak other men’s words, to follow other men’s habits.

There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished.

I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.

My mum will not speak above a low whisper in public because she doesn’t want to draw attention to herself.

Actually I don’t choose to expose myself in public. I choose to compete; the other side just comes with the package.

From time to time, people pat me on the head. It happens on public transport, in the supermarket, in bars. It’s a common enough occurrence that it very rarely takes me completely by surprise.

If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it… if it doesn’t stand the test of public scrutiny then don’t do it.

When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail – none of which is easy.

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O’Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate.

I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today.

I think fashion is repulsive. The whole idea that someone else can make clothing that is supposed to be in style and make other people look good is ridiculous. It sickens me to think that there is an industry that plays to the low self-esteem of the general public. I would like the fashion industry...

Our learning ought to be our lives’ amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

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.

In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.

It’s an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

For me, it’s a great opportunity on a public platform to get on your knees and humble myself and thank the Lord for all the blessings he’s put in my life.

What we are doing is satisfying the American public. That’s our job. I always say we have to give most of the people what they want most of the time. That’s what they expect from us.

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

I love every type of martial arts, but with Muay Thai in general, I want to see it being brought to the public more. There is no movie that has Muay Thai incorporated into it, so I want to bring that to the public.

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.

I don’t think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.

All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.

Concealing one’s true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency.

When Johnson decided to fight for passage of the law John F. Kennedy had put before Congress in June 1963 banning segregation in places of public accommodation, he believed he was taking considerable political risks.

I think the public can t accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy. They don t want to believe the world is that chaotic. It is.

During Grover Cleveland’s second term, in the 1890s, the White House deceived the public by dismissing allegations that surgeons had removed a cancerous growth from the President’s mouth; a vulcanized-rubber prosthesis disguised the absence of much of Cleveland’s upper left jaw and part of his palate.

Congress becomes the public voice of opposition.

Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.

My philosophy is, ‘Show up, shut up, and do your job,’ and if you do it to the satisfaction of your director and the public, you’re likely to be able to do it again.

The principle of plural marriage was revealed to the Mormons amid much secrecy. Dark clouds hovered over the church in the early 1840s, after rumors spread that its founder, Joseph Smith, had taken up the practice of polygamy. While denying the charge in public, by 1843 Smith had shared a revelation with his closest disciples.

You can’t have public health without working with the public sector. You can’t have public education without working with the public sector in education.

I’m looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.

When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.

Families have become models for public life, constructing friendships between individuals of different temperaments, ambitions and ages, even if they are often unsuccessful. People now want, above all, appreciation of their uniqueness.

‘All Our Yesterdays’ was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

I want the public to know the truth, not every condition affecting the heart comes from a blockage.

The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.

I had a pretty public divorce. They’re not easy – divorces – and it took me a long time to really get through.

One thing you’ll learn when you’re in the business of selling utter shite to the Great British Public is that there’s really no bottom to where they’ll go. Shit food, shit TV, shit bands, shit films, shit houses. There is absolutely no fucking bottom with this stuff. The shittier you can make it – a...

For all the popularity of spiritual advisers in South Korea, it still shocks to see the leaders of huge public companies relying on fortune-tellers. A shaman may advise a struggling executive to move a building’s front entrance, tapping the widespread pungsu belief that your luck depends on the direction of your house.

I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it’s not worth enough to risk my private life being public.

The police feel that most of the public are against them and that there is a lot of bad feeling.

The World Bank, anxious that the last vestiges of Zimbabwe’s former inclination toward socialism be abandoned, successfully urged the imposition of a token tuition charge for all grade levels. Equivalent to one U. S. dollar per year per child, this fee constitutes a burden to the poorest families, who have responded by sending only boys...

So there’s always been this clash between what is the public good – that which belongs to all of us in common – and what can be exploited for a private interest.

The public likes to think that women only care about contraception.

I’ve not stopped going on public transport. I love going on it.

When I started this book last year, I had a small reception in mind. A few copies in my hand to share with close friends, maybe a small gathering… I never imagined that my book would have its own ISBN number and be available to the public. I never imagined seeing my name next to...