Private Quotes

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Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
We have to love our freedom, not just for the private opportunities it provides, but for the goodness it makes possible. — John McCain
A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for… — Niccolo Machiavelli
It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as from a rock;… — Niccolo Machiavelli
In order that the relations between science and the age may be what they ought to be, the world at large must be made to… — Unknown Author
Explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he helped arrange a private interview for them with… — Richard V. Allen
The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all… — Honore de Balzac
Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there: If you set it on fire it makes a lot of little flames. But gather these… — John Vianney
I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it… — William Wilberforce
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency. — Miguel de Cervantes
I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals. — Joseph Heller
This army is powerful because all its members have a conscious discipline; they have come together and they fight not for the private interests of… — Mao Zedong
In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall. — Tacitus
Don't underestimate the therapeutic value of gardening. It's the one area where we can all use our nascent creative talents to make a truly satisfying… — Geoff Hamilton
We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may… — Lewis H. Lapham
Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their authors. That rare… — Richard Bach
One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure - a willingness to let our partner enter… — Nathaniel Branden
Private flights back home, no stop-over — Drake
The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in our schools in preference to… — Benjamin Rush
If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual… — Kofi Annan

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