Private Quotes

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Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life. — Lyn Nofziger
While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces. — Herman E. Daly
Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind. — Joe Queenan
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. It is not for the sake of a… — Lord Acton
Prayer in private results in boldness in public. — Edwin Louis Cole
The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life. — Timothy Keller
Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs keep most of us in… — Robert Fulghum
Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare. — Larry Elder
If the state, with all of the emotional resources at its command, cannot finance its most basic and vital activities without resort to compulsion, it… — Mancur Olson
If economic catastrophe does come, will it be a time that draws Christians together to share every resource we have, or will it drive us… — Randy Alcorn
Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There is no morphine… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas… — Neil Abercrombie
So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what… — Neil Abercrombie
I ALWAYS intended to return to the private sector, — Don Nickles
My life style in a sense is kind of private. — Marc Newson
Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private… — Karel Capek
This program could destroy private initiative for our aged to protect themselves with insurance against the cost of illness....Presently, over 60 percent of our older… — Unknown Author
Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong… — William James
In our private lives in the last decade, we've gone through enormous change that has affected everything, from the way we do business to how… — Cathy Davidson
Some [intentional communities], like the Shakers and the Harmony Society, have endured for a century or even longer. The Hutterians, to cite an extreme example,… — Unknown Author
When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life. — Gloria Swanson
Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret… — Michel de Montaigne
[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main… — Rebecca Solnit
The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of the spell of… — Theodor Adorno
THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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