Top 1200 Public Lands Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

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.

I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men's bones.

I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces.

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.

The lands are lit with all the autumn blaze of golden-rod, and everywhere the purple asters nod and bend and wave and flit.

Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.

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

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

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

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

Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.

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

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.

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

Tis often seen Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds A native slip to us from foreign lands.

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

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

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.

Well, just as in the quality of public schools, there is massive disparity and the compensation given to the public school teachers.

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.

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

The public probably knows that teen drivers are at greater risk for fatal accidents. What the public doesn't know is what we ought to do about it.

Most public officials work hard to serve the public good and abide by Oregon's ethics laws.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

All business begins with the public permission and exists by public approval

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

We work for the public, and I believe that if a senator wants to block a piece of legislation or a nominee, they owe the public an explanation.

The job of the designer is to make things understandable, usable, accessible, enjoyable... important to a public, that involves the public.

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.

[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!

If you watch 'E.T.' and say that there are holes in the story because this alien lands, then don't go to the movie! It drives me insane.

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

I am bad mannered, naughty, and one of those few people who lands up in controversies, but I guess that's expected of me.

Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't you?

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Even though I was away from the public eye, I was in the public memory.

The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public opinion, by playing either upon the public's indifference, confusions, prejudices, pugnacities or fears. And the only way in which the power of the interests can be undermined and their maneuvers defeated is by bringing home to the public the danger of its indifference, the absurdity of its prejudices, or the hollowness of its fears; by showing that it is indifferent to danger where real danger exists; frightened by dangers which are nonexistent.

[Imeachable conduct is] misconduct by public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.

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.

Public opinion shapes public policy dramatically.

A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace.

We can only have true public safety with public trust.

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.

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.

Democracy is welcoming people from other lands, and giving them something to hold onto. Usually a mop or a leaf blower.

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

If one is to use public funds he must accept a responsibility to the public.

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.

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.

Blessed is the mind that jumps over and beyond its own conditioning and lands again into its natural state of unmoving awareness.

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