Public Indirect Quotes & Sayings

It is in vain to say that enlightened statesmen will be able to adjust these clashing interests, and render them all subservient to the public good. Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. Nor, in many cases, can such an adjustment be made at all without taking into view indirect and remote considerations, which will rarely prevail over the immediate interest which one party may find in disregarding the rights of another or the good of the whole. — James Madison

And so it is true in this sense that there is essentially but one religion, the religion of the living God. For to live in the conscious realisation of the fact that God lives in us, is indeed the life of our life, and that in ourselves we have no independent life, and hence no power, is the one great fact of all true religion, even as it is the one great fact of human life. Religion, therefore, at its purest, and life at its truest, are essentially and necessarily one and the same. — Ralph Waldo Trine

Today is the only guarantee you get. — Anna Quindlen

Why do Americans find government so baffling and irritating-even though many of us depend on public programs for a secure retirement, an affordable mortgage, or a college loan? In this timely and important book, political scientist Suzanne Mettler explains how the United States has come to rely on hidden, indirect policies that privilege special interests but puzzle regular citizens. American democracy can do better, and she shows how. Politicians and the public alike have much to learn from her brilliant and engaging analysis. — Theda Skocpol

It is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of men can escape from their neighbors and from their government, to go and live as they please in the wilderness. A truly isolated, small, and creative society will never again be possible on this planet. — Freeman Dyson

The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud. — Randy Johnson

I certainly do not drink all the time. I have to sleep you know. — W.C. Fields

What brings the whole back row of the chessboard to my modest little abode? — Taylor Anderson

Implementing best practice is copying yesterday, innovation is inventing tomorrow. — Paul Sloane

The best music for her was always the stuff you could relate to, the stuff that spoke directly to you and twisted and knotted itself so far into your life you couldn't tell where art ended and reality began. — Stephen Emond

Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature. — Gary Hamel

If we read, we shall renew our minds. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There was something out there.
And it was getting us. — A.B. Shepherd

I want a big church wedding. — Sienna Miller

Confronting the US made him [Hugo Chavez] a target for demonization. Partisan and/or lazy journalism exaggerated his faults, ignored his virtues, and downplayed the influence of strident and on occasion anti-democratic opponents. The flip side is his anti-imperialist posturing so dazzled his cheerleaders they overlooked his flaws, flaws which worsened over time, and they created their own caricature. — Rory Carroll

Wishing to prove oneself right is the usual motive for scholarship. — Robert Anton Wilson

Lingering here, bored and comfortable, was a form of self-punishment tinged with pleasure, or the expectation of it; if she went away something bad might happen or, worse, something good, something she could not afford to miss. — Ian McEwan