Private Quotes

2742 Private quotes by 1926 unique authors

I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it if it is… — Anna Quindlen
Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that… — Henry Ward Beecher
Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector. — Ronald Reagan
My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the… — Ian Hamilton Finlay
That, in essence is Fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any controlling private power. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity… — Virginia Woolf
When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government. — Glenn Reynolds
The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck. — Mike Pence
It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies- or to help the world's most desperate - the AIDS orphan in Uganda,… — Condoleezza Rice
... it [masturbation] too often leads to grievous sin, even to that sin against nature, homosexuality. For, done in private, it evolves often into mutual… — Spencer W. Kimball
I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to… — Benjamin Rush
All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage… — Virginia Woolf
There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code. — Pierre Trudeau
To all earth's creatures God has given the broad earth, the springs, the rivers and the forests, giving the air to the birds, and the… — Gregory of Nazianzus
In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we… — Plato
Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to… — Plato
Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our society suffers with… — William J Doherty
I have, throughout my private war, been a she, a you,a Donna, a me, and finally, an I....If you sense distance,you're not mistaken; it's real.… — Unknown Author
...a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war. — Paul Yingling
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and… — Socrates

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