Private Quotes

2742 Private quotes by 1926 unique authors

When lack of funds prevents hospitals from functioning efficiently and fully, private philanthropy of all kinds must help. The difference it makes in terms of… — Unknown Author
I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up… — Ernest Hemingway
He is pushing his face in all the time and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested. He should just go away. — Steven Morrissey
I was at a small private school in London. I wasn't very academic. My dad said to me, 'OK, you might as well leave, since… — Robert Pattinson
It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off. — Mark Twain
Have some sort of a private place to work in. Put up a sign to keep from being interrupted. Mine says: "Please, do not knock,… — Judith Krantz
When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I accumulate… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't. — Tim Scott
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling… — John Mason Brown
The official community vacation rental website representing private homeowners at Windsor hills resort closest to Disney. — Margaret Bourke-White
I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private. Wee need to… — Wendell Berry
Now, nakedness is a delightful condition. And it keeps you very pleasantly cool - especially, I suppose, if you happen to be a man. But… — Colin Fletcher
Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than… — Robert E. Lee
For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become… — Bruce Schneier
We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private insurers.… — Barack Obama
Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use… — Walt Whitman
Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control the state by… — Noam Chomsky
Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So… — Milton Friedman
The great danger to the consumer is the monopoly -whether private or governmental. His most effective protection is free competition at home and free trade… — Milton Friedman

Who Wrote These Private Quotes

1,926 authors contributed a total of 2,742 Private Quotes, led by these top contributors: