Private Quotes

2742 Private quotes by 1926 unique authors

Are you aware it is private property? Why you'll be asking be to bomb Essen next. — Unknown Author
Small and mid-sized companies in this country historically have been responsible for creating the overwhelming majority of new jobs in the private sector. One of… — Michael Milken
Just by being private, the culture will change. We won't be forced to make decisions that are 90 days in relevance. — Sam Zell
Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on those objects which… — Edward Bernays
The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on… — Lascelles Abercrombie
Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives but in my private life,… — Ashley Judd
Who do I belong to? How come I mortgaged my being till I don't belong to myself? How come I sold my blood? And who… — Pablo Neruda
When abroad, behaveto everyone as if interviewing an honored guest; in directing the people, act as if you were assisting at a great sacrafice; DO… — Confucius
We must play music quietly, talk quietly, weep in private, because I am the all-powerful Zahir, who lays down the rules and determines the distance… — Paulo Coelho
I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in… — Tobias Smollett
As a private person, I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard. Where every prospect pleases, man… — David Ogilvy
This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as when the militant Church of… — Pope Leo X
The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I created to sell tickets and promote my… — Muhammad Ali
I'm a private intellectual, not a public one. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative… — Malcolm Gladwell
Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing… — Italo Calvino
A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They'll never know what it means to have a private moment… — Edward Snowden
The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that's why they're called… — Glenn Greenwald
There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our… — Aaron Swartz
But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in… — Aaron Swartz
Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been… — Alice Munro
The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement — Lucian Freud
The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed… — Lindsey Graham
Respecters of private property are really obligated to oppose much that is done today in the name of private enterprise, for corporate organization and monopoly… — Richard M. Weaver
Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments. — Bob Goodlatte

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