Top 1200 Public Lands Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.

Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.

It is a foolish prince who entrusts the safety of his lands to hired men.

Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.

After all, it's not where a man lands that marks his punishment. Its how far he falls.

In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.

We do not go to mission lands to 'bring Jesus Christ' as much as to uncover him where he already is.

The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.

As public schools deteriorate, the upper-middle class and wealthy send their kids to private ones. As public pools and playgrounds decay, the better-off buy memberships in private tennis and swimming clubs. As public hospitals decline, the well-off pay premium rates for private care.

Going public for the sake of going public is not really an optimal thing. You're going public because as a company you believe it is the right thing to do and it will benefit the ability of the company to achieve its long-term objectives.

And I always was getting fired and quitting jobs, so I was not going to ruin Public Storage, and I was excited about Public Storage because I knew eventually I could be one of those property manager people that had their own apartment on site. So I had these big dreams for Public Storage.

It's complicated to stand and trade with me. My first hand lands and you already feel it.

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?

If I had my own world I'd build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence!

Those of us in public office and those of us who aspire to public office have a responsibility to be reasonable, fact-based, in our rhetoric and to not suggest things that are unreasonable, to whip up a lot of emotion in public, which can lead to government overreach, fear, suspicions, and prejudice.

For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies.

Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.

In the U.S., the term 'general aviation' means its exact opposite, the way 'public school' does in England. An English public school is private and, on top of that, exclusive. Likewise, general-aviation airports in the U.S. are for everyone but the general public.

The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity.

The first question that I ask : do I have public support or not. That is the first question that I asked as President. If I don't have the public support, whether there's the so-called "Arab spring" - it's not spring, anyway - but whether we have this or we don't, if you don't have public support, you have to quit, you have to leave. If you have public support, in any circumstances you have to stay. That's your mission, you have to help the people, you have to serve the people.

I spent 19 years as a local government official; I spent two years in the Iowa Senate; my daughter is a public school teacher. We're all counting on IPERS. The public servants are counting on the system they were promised when entering public service.

The thing which we speak of as beauty does not have to be sought in distant lands. . . . It is here about us or it is nowhere.

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?

Whatever's in front of you, you do the best you can and let it land where it lands, and then you walk away.

I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used for the purpose of advancing any particular creed; and therefore that the public schools shall be nonsectarian and no public moneys appropriated for sectarian schools.

Now the expectation is that, once the public decides that the artist is gentrified, the public demands that the artist stop growing. And [the public] actually puts all their energy into reasserting or re-establishing what the artist has long ago left behind. Because that's what they want. The source of creativity, the gift that's been given, be damned.

From NASA putting a man on the moon to DARPA developing what later became the Internet, the U.S. government, through a host of different public agencies, has provided direct financing not only of basic research but also public venture capital; both Apple and Tesla have received direct public funding.

In love the heavens themselves do guide the state; Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.

Conservative and liberal politicians alike now spend millions waging wars around the globe, funding the largest military state in the world, providing huge tax benefits to the ultrarich and major corporations, and all the while draining public coffers, increasing the scale of human poverty and misery, and eliminating all viable public spheres - whether they be the social state, public schools, public transportation or any other aspect of a formative culture that addresses the needs of the common good.

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

While our budget shortfall is temporary, ruining pristine national lands is permanent.

Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators.

Patenting and purchase of lands are absolutely vital to the health of Nevada's rural communities.

The only thing an actor can do is, whatever lands on the carpet in the hall, you read it, and if you can't put it down, that's the job to do.

The trouble is that privacy is at once essential to, and in tension with, both freedom and security. A cabinet minister who keeps his mistress in satin sheets at the French taxpayer's expense cannot justly object when the press exposes his misuse of public funds. Our freedom to scrutinise the conduct of public figures trumps that minister's claim to privacy. The question is: where and how do we draw the line between a genuine public interest and that which is merely what interests the public?

American public opinion, as you can see in the polls, radically changed from being against airstrikes to being heavily in favor that [President Obama] decided to do airstrikes. This is a classic example of leading from behind where he waits for public opinion. And now it's the public who's demanding he do something.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.

We need to create incentives for our ranchers and farmers to manage their lands to maximize carbon sequestration.

As the plane lands in Glasgow airport, passengers are reminded to set their watch back, 25 years.

Do not trouble yourself for your brethren, for we have already provided lands for them, which they shall possess forever.

At my door the Pale Horse stands to carry me to unknown lands.

It's basic research: shoot an arrow in the air. Where it lands, paint a bullseye.

Wars of small kingdoms and forgotten lands, what do chessmen dream of in the dark?

Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.

Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value.

I'm very proud being Puerto Rican. I'm American. That is what America is made of - people from different lands.

I think the public library system is one of the most amazing American institutions. Free for everybody. If you ever get the blues about the status of American culture there are still more public libraries than there are McDonald's. During the worst of the Depression not one public library closed their doors.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

Listen, anybody can put their head down and throw a haymaker and pray and hope it lands.

Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target.

Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?

The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.

As a tree my sin stands To darken all lands; Death is the fruit it bore.

I shoot an arrow into the air, where it lands I do not care: I get my arrows wholesale!

If my performance down the stretch lands me on the All-NBA, which I think I'm deserving of, then so be it. I'll be happy.

If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that's lost, there is usually something gained.

There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.