The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
What people do in their private lives is their business, and shouldn't be anybody else's business. — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
It is time to stop personal destruction and prying into private lives — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Politicians who do not use the Bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office. — Beverly LaHaye Copy Share Image
I don't believe we ought to be discriminating against people for their private lives. — Scott Tipton Copy Share Image
Good men stand against evil and overcome it, in their private lives and in their communities. — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Libertarians believe that the government should stay out of private lives on issues that don't have a bearing on society as a… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
In my generation, we sort of let the art speak for itself. We don't disclose our personal private lives. — Alyson Stoner Copy Share Image
As a family, we are all very close, so we all know what we all are doing. Other than that, we don't… — Bobby Deol Copy Share Image
If 300 million people were to offer up the details of their private lives, you would need to hire another 300 million… — Hasan M. Elahi Copy Share Image
A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Let's get the government stay out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let's take a stand… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?' It's… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
John Bond has blackened my name with his insinuations about the private lives of football managers. Both my wives are upset. — Malcolm Allison Copy Share Image
If we can't have exchanges with our friends and family, with loved ones that won't at some point be made public, then… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy… — Jill Tweedie Copy Share Image
In Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her perfect subject. She brings… — Marian Seldes Copy Share Image
No wonder all the great comedians had such destructive private lives. ... After you get the audience into that kind of frenzy,… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
“Coercing employees into awkward icebreakers or forced bonding activities, like making everyone at a meeting share something about their private lives, only… — Shawn Achor Copy Share Image
I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest… — W H Auden Copy Share Image
I see two opposite tendencies in Turkish society: people feel demoralized, they lose the interest in politics and retreat to their private… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
The word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“The left tended to think people’s private lives should be their own, even if they made choices traditional Christian society regarded as… — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate leaders toward… — Senator John Kerry Copy Share Image
Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs keep most… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
“Did you like my novel?" she couldn't resist asking. "Yes, I did. At first I thought it would be typical silver-fork fare.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) that the sex instinct, more than any other, must be repressed if ruling elites are… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
I think the media has got into this Enquirer mentality. Years ago, legitimate press didn't really concern itself with sordid details of… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
“The practical consequence of both of the teachings noted is to encourage homosexual promiscuity. Church members can engage in many short-term liaisons… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
“New Rule: Conservatives have to stop rolling their eyes every time they hear the word "France." Like just calling something French is… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“It is possible in a city street neighborhood to know all kinds of people without unwelcome entanglements, without boredom, necessity for excuses,… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“I have often been asked why I maintained such a non-compromising antagonism to government and in what way I have found myself… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“I used to believe, when I was 'just' a reader, that writers, because they wrote books where truth was found, because they… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Halo Effect Cisco, the Silicon Valley firm, was once a darling of the new economy. Business journalists gushed about its success in… — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
“Sunday's Best Times are tough for English babies Send the army and the navy Beat up strangers who talk funny Take their… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
“SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“The lives of scientists, considered as Lives, almost always make dull reading. For one thing, the careers of the famous and the… — Peter B. Medawar Copy Share Image
