Top 1200 Public Affairs Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

Just cheating and lying in any way doesn't go well with me. So as a person, I am not okay with extramarital affairs.

When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.

I, who fall short in managing my own affairs, can see just how it would profit my neighbor if I managed his.

Now we live in a time where the public and the private are completely fused and there isn't such a great distinction. We know our private lives are constantly made public. With Facebook and Twitter there isn't such a desire, it feels, to keep things private.

Countries which enjoy the highest level of peace, happiness and prosperity are the ones where the law least interfered with private affairs.

From maintaining public safety to educating our children to providing critical services, our police officers, firefighters, sanitation workers, teachers, librarians and so many other public employees are there for us when we need them most.

Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.

The Ricky that the public see, whether it be on screen as a character, in public, or on social media, is very outgoing, and I'm a bit of a class clown. Then those who are closest to me know that I can be very sensitive. I can be quite insecure about myself.

For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.

In my head I have had the most torrid affairs with actors I have worked with. You should hear what George Clooney and I have got up to!

The situation of America is new in the annals of mankind; her affairs cry haste, and speed must answer them.

The absolute necessity to create a proper Earth government' - we should inscribe this as the priority item on the agenda of world affairs.

The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.

It is only fair to expect public employees like me and others in the public sector to pay something close to what our neighbors and our fellow citizens do in the private sector.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

I am opposed to the privatization of the Veterans Affairs Department and will continue to make sure the VHA is fully funded.

The idea of public service was instilled in me by watching my father, who shared that he was far more fulfilled in his public service than by his former lucrative corporate jobs.

So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.

The assumption should be that we will not appear in print or the blogosphere. Having dinner should not be fodder for Facebook. And this is just as true for 'public personalities' as it is for the average person. After all, even people in the public eye have a right to a private life.

The Executive is charged officially in the Departments under it with the disbursement of the public money, and is responsible for the faithful application of it to the purposes for which it is raised. The Legislature is the watchful guardian over the public purse. It is its duty to see that the disbursement has been honestly made.

We often ask our citizens to split their public and private selves, telling them in effect that it is fine to be religious in private, but there is something askew when those private beliefs become the basis for public action.

Of the affairs of love ... my only advice is to be honest. That's your most powerful tool to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness.

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static routine of tradition continues.

When we control business in the public interest we are also bound to encourage it in the public interest or it will be a bad thing for everybody and worst of all for those on whose behalf the control is nominally exercised.

Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.

As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.

I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.

A mercurial plan of action may have worked in the Trump Organization board room, but it's a disastrous tactic in foreign affairs.

If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.

In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.

Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.

Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.

Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.

May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.

Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.

If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated.

The concept of preserving history, collating full archives, making them as usable as possible so the public have access to them, I really feel that it allows the public an ability to engage with their own history.

Perhaps more than ever before, there is that aggressive secularism and there are those who would indeed try to destroy our Christian heritage and culture and take God from the public square. Religion must not be taken from the public square.

An intuitive part of the American ethos is a kind of protectiveness of the public's fear. We have to remember how unique that is. As scandal-ridden as we may be, we start with a basic expectation that it's not your job in public service to use it to help your friend.

Conservatism is constitutionally opposed to public reason, and this explains the abandon with which so many conservative pundits embrace flagrant simulations of reason, constructed through the methods of public relations, and exhibit so little regard for the real thing.

The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.

Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs -- putting in his oar, so to speak -- with some pat word or sentence.

It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present.

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.

Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others—that is too high a price to pay.

If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged - not the critics or the academies. The public is the artist's only patron, and has certain fundamental rights. It will submit to education, and will respond to suggestion, but it will not be bullied.

In my brief, home affairs, we have witnessed ministers issue countless dodgy dossiers, fiddle figures and fudge facts.

History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.

The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.

I have become like a rhinoceros - thick-skinned - all the gossip about my numerous affairs does not bother me anymore.