Private Quotes

2742 Private quotes by 1926 unique authors

The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide with that of… — Joseph Campbell
The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance,… — Hilaire Belloc
All rent is based on the monopoly power of private owners of certain portions of the globe. — David Harvey
Monetary relations have penetrated into every nook and cranny of the world and into almost every aspect of social, even private life. — David Harvey
I'd love to talk to Joaquin Phoenix because he's a very private guy. Also, he's creating a new kind of sexy leading man. To me,… — Isaac Mizrahi
When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your… — L. Ron Hubbard
Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others. — Roger Scruton
We Poor Cousins don’t care at all though, except for when we’re on welfare, broke, starving, unable to buy cool high-tops for our children or pay for… — Miriam Toews
Impotence therefore faces both those who believe in what amounts to a pure, stateless, market capitalism, a sort of international bourgeois anarchism, and those who… — Eric Hobsbawm
I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. — Bernie Worrell
It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their gods were alike… — William Robertson Smith
In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state of… — Frank Auerbach
I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don't prefer to talk about my family. — Luis Miguel
Then I got this idea in my head that magazines were like a gallery and if you got your magazine page ripped out and someone… — David LaChapelle
What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions… — C. Wright Mills
The conservative movement, to which I subscribe, has as one of its basic tenets the belief that government should stay out of people’s private lives.… — Barry Goldwater
Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the… — Walter Brueggemann
The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental. — Garet Garrett
If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it… — Garet Garrett
If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the… — Martin Van Buren
It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer… — Martin Van Buren
I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight. — S E Hinton
I'd never really wanted to have a really 'private' life before. But when somebody starts delving into it and printing details through the tabloids for… — Jarvis Cocker
Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information. — Melissa Bean
Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before — Anita Hill

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