Top 1200 Public Buildings Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.

If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.

The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment.

It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.

We can only have true public safety with public trust.

I would dare say that most anyone in public life, if they stay in public long enough, is not treated fairly.

Despite being bailed out - in some cases repeatedly - by the public purse, the automakers have shown little public spirit.

The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good.

I believe in the near future we will 3D print our buildings and houses.

School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.

I'm a politician who has to for a time serve in public life, and I get death threats. And it is what it is because you've put yourself out there in the public square.

The reason for looking at a public listing instead of private capital is that I have always enjoyed running a public limited company.

i cried when i saw those buildings collapse on themselves like a broken heart.

I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.

For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

They work now with computers for building buildings and books, but not ever with new ideas.

Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.

O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings

Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.

You can't negotiate in public. People won't make concessions in public. They will do that in private. Like sausage making, you have to do it behind closed doors.

I have a lovely room and bath in the hotel. It's a little inconvenient, they're in two separate buildings!

I'm a journalist, so my friends are journalists: magazines, newspapers, even public radio. Nobody had their kids in public school.

You should resolve not to seek public approval of your private business, when you are not also prepared to accept public disapproval.

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

We need to see more resources in the combination of public safety and public health but we have to use our dollars wisely.

You should prepare when you go to a public event to be public. That's when I will sign autographs. But not when you're going about your normal business.

When it comes to public services, I am firmly on the side of the public.

What's interesting about art in public spaces is that the public really sort of takes over and uses it in ways that you didn't anticipate.

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

Once you become public, then whatever you do is public.

A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.

What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.

Public opinion shapes public policy dramatically.

Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff.

That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the public.

Negative personal attacks have no place in public life and serve to erode public confidence in our basic institutions of government.

We try to make buildings last long and be resilient but also be not so idiosyncratic that they can't change.

A newspaper is a private enterprise owing nothing whatsoever to the public, which grants it no franchise. It is therefore affected with no public interest.

Medieval and Tudor people didn't treat buildings as a semi-disposable resource like we do.

My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

Most days I am in public. If I go to the store, with social media, I'm in public. It might as well be a press conference.

Public faith means going public with what’s in your heart, with humility and respect for others, as we speak of the truth of the gospel.

The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.

What we want, above all things on earth in our public men, is independence. It is one great defect in the character of the public men of America that there is that real want of independence; and, in this respect, a most marked contrast exists between public men in this country and in Great Britain.

In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.

The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.

I've grown up in the public eye, and every decision I've made has always been so public and often inaccurately reported.

All the buildings of justice will remain idle on the day when all men have high conscience!

I think the problem is, if we foreclose any public justice, then we cut off the virtuous cycle that's represented by law, where there are public decisions which then deter misconduct in the future. We need to have both. We need to have private dispute sy-, systems, and we need to have public dispute systems.

It's time to put back on the agenda the importance of public ownership and public good, the value of working together collaboratively, not in competition.

I really don't want to produce artwork that does not have meaning beyond simple decorative values. I want to use public space to create a public voice, and a public consciousness about the presence of people who are, in fact, the majority of the population but who are not represented in any visual way. By telling their stories we are giving voice to the voiceless and visualizing the whole of the American story.

If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.

The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad. Even to speculate in public is rather worrisome.

The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should be a national embarrassment.

The horrific damage of 9/11 did not end when those buildings came down.

The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.

You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.