Private Quotes

2742 Private quotes by 1926 unique authors

I sent my ex-husband a bully card: You held hate in one heart and spoke niceties with the other, you laid warm hands upon me… — Jenny Jay
A long-term substance abuser, a few months before his death, penned this poem: Went downtown, Hastings and Main, looking for relief from the pain. All… — Gabor Mate
The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board. — Edward Alsworth Ross
In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private interests, learn about the world… — Ernest L. Boyer
Education must prepare students to be independent, self-reliant human beings. But education, at its best, also must help students go beyond their private interests, gain… — Ernest L. Boyer
If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask. — Frances Conroy
It used to be that people could be painfully boring in private. Facebook changed all that. — Andy Borowitz
In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops. — Paul Brooks
Some animals are secretive; some are shy. A cat is private. — Leonard Michaels
There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These are, in the… — Unknown Author
Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it practically doesn't have an audience in mind, just the artist's expression. — Unknown Author
The laws by which the Divine Ruler of the universe has decreed an indissoluble connection between public happiness and private virtue, whatever apparent exceptions may… — Unknown Author
I do not believe that the government should have its long nose poked into the private consensual relationships between people. — John Anderson
Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure. Voluntary private investment… — Henry Hazlitt
Science is public, not private, knowledge. — Robert K. Merton
My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the articles… — Percy Williams Bridgman
I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing… — Edward Mills Purcell
An intelligent patient, private or otherwise, to whom you have taken the trouble to explain the nature of the investigation, makes the best laboratory animal. — Fuller Albright
This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of… — Unknown Author
I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of… — Thomas Jefferson

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