Private Quotes

2742 Private quotes by 1926 unique authors

Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between… — J. G. Ballard
The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock… — George Steiner
As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical… — Karl Marx
Private victories precede public victories. — Stephen Covey
By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression. — Sigmund Freud
To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious. — Thomas Traherne
It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want,… — Joan Didion
For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did.… — Hilaire Belloc
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it. — Stephen Covey
The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business. Profitability rather than… — Michael Parenti
There is no institution more vital to our Nation's survival than the American family. Here the seeds of personal character are planted, the roots of… — Ronald Reagan
The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good behavior, the danger is not, that the judges will be too… — Joseph Story
The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or even by grave… — Herbert Croly
And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts… — Joseph Story
Songwriting can be cathartic, but then you just keep it private. If you're going to play out and have other people listen to you, then… — Patterson Hood
In their public statements (but not necessarily in their private statements), scientists express a generally negative attitude towards the UFO problem, and it is interesting… — Peter A. Sturrock
Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence… — Andrew Solomon
And all that weirdness isn't just going on outside. It's in you too, right now, growing in the dark like magic mushrooms. Call it the… — Stephen King
These elites, preferring to work in private, are rarely found posed for photographers, and their influence upon events has therefore to be deduced from what… — Harold Wallace Rosenthal
I think someone in the union has the right to a private vote, and that's why I'm anti-card check. I grew up in a union… — Jim Renacci

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