I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer’s handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public...

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda...

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record – it’s easy to discover who’s in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don’t appear on any organization chart.

There’s nothing like a good murder to remind us all how much love there is in the world. That’s what this guy’s probably thinking, as he stands alone and naked—emotionally, not physically—as he’s obviously wearing...

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

The Sophists’ paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

I believe that Bill Clinton will be remembered as one of our nation’s great Presidents, and Senator Clinton as one of our nation’s great public servants.

The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities…. A fresh mode of Beauty is absolutely distasteful to them,...

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.

An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit.

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

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.

I got a tooth bust by somebody who decided they didn’t like me and I thought the moustache hid a scar on my lip. It’s true that people were told facial hair was not appreciated...

If what any artist has to say is fundamentally human and profound the public will ultimately take his work unto itself. But if his own conceptions are limited and narrow in their human meaning it...

Any society’s upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d’you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is...

The exaggerated dopamine sensitivity of the introvert leads one to believe that when in public, introverts, regardless of its validity, often feel to be the center of (unwanted) attention hence rarely craving attention. Extroverts, on...

It’s my father’s legacy. My father’s view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they’re up to.

What drives people to public service is a sense of possibility. If you haven’t sensed that possibility you don’t get started in the same way, you don’t feel you can have an impact.

Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.

Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.

What we owe future generations is the subject of growing debate by economists, philosophers, ethicists, public policymakers, and academics of all stripes. But for me as a mother, the moral implications are very clear. We...

Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.

I’m a private intellectual, not a public one.

An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.

You can’t have public health without a public health system. We just don’t want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.

I don’t think people realize the extent to which TV networks are hurt when they carry public broadcasting. I think the estimate is that they lose a half-million dollars for a half day’s programming.

When I am not on the stage, it is always very difficult for the public to find me! I am a private person who does not always want to be in the spotlight!

My worst fear is my music won’t connect with the public.

What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we’re looking at is not a historical event but – and I have to be brutal and I am...

It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is a way to get more information, more important information to the public. And...

Staying with detractors is like sleeping in a room located just behind the public toilet. You will never feel comfortable until you relocate.

No one, no social group, can today avoid the commitment to contribute to the clean up of public finances in order to prevent the financial collapse of Italy. The sacrifices will not be in vain,...

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.

At FDA, our mission is to promote and protect the health of the public. As commissioner, I’ve worked hard to galvanize people around that idea. I want employees to be thinking about the unique and...

We need to expose the lies and educate the Palestinian public that Israel is not the enemy. Israel actually helps the people of Gaza more than anybody else. We need the average Palestinian to see...

The government is determined to continue the process of fiscal consolidation and structural reform in order to secure sound public finances and improve the country’s international competitiveness.

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.

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...

Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.

Vice President Biden’s surprising declaration of unqualified support for gay marriage seems to have forced President Obama into a public endorsement of a controversial social issue. It is difficult not to suspect that Biden’s pronouncement...

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 think the industry finally gets it. They’ve lost the connection with the American public, and they’ve got to rebuild the trust with the American public.

I’m convinced many of America’s heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.

People come up to me and say, ‘It’s too bad the space program got canceled.’ This is not the case, and yet that is what most of the public thinks has happened.

Life at a public company ain’t for me. The board pays you what you’re worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.

I think it’s important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.