Private Quotes

2742 Private quotes by 1926 unique authors

It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own. — Joyce Carol Oates
If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that. — Billie Jean King
We can help a person to be himself by our own willingness to steep ourselves temporarily in his world, in his private feelings and experiences.… — Clark Moustakas
Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is… — Judith Krantz
It's so much easier to go to the Sony movie complex when you're disabled. You take a great elevator. You get your own little private… — Michael Zaslow
After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's… — Jay London
One opinion I share with the Dadaists is that art-making presupposes a revolutionary state of mind. Assimilating the practice into commodity or symbol of status… — C.D. Wright
Your body is as ancient as the clay of the universe from which it is made; and your feet on the ground are a constant… — John O'Donohue
Thanks to the ongoing support of the Government of Ontario, RHF, in partnership with the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation, has galvanized Ontario’s best researchers, clinicians and… — Rick Hansen
Auto da Fay reveals the trickles of a creative sensibility that later became a tide, but essentially, Weldon the writer emerges only at the very… — Joanna Murray-Smith
Washington State has a strong tradition of a positive relationship - positive working relationship between labor and management, whether in the private sector or the… — Rob McKenna
My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together… — Robert B. Laughlin
On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires… — Eberhard Weber
Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private… — Mary Abigail Dodge
Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none. — John Sergeant Wise
Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred. — Lance Loud
Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union… — Linda Chavez
The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems. — Lee H. Hamilton
There is no personal right to be armed for private purposes unrelated to the service in a well regulated militia. — Sarah Brady
To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program,… — Herman Kahn
Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way. — Jay Kay
The Irish innovation was to make all confession a completely private affair between penitent and priest - and to make it as repeatable as necessary.… — Thomas Cahill
I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and then I'd… — Candace Cameron
The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor the zealous Paul, Who for… — Edmund Waller
Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was beginning… — Susan Griffin

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