Private Quotes

2742 Private quotes by 1926 unique authors

In the entire first Christian century Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or poet. His name… — Bart D. Ehrman
I have a cause higher and nobler than my own, a cause to which all private interests and concerns must be subordinated. — Leila Khaled
Each of us has a private Austen. — Karen Joy Fowler
People think because you're private, you have something you don't want them to know. — Tom T. Hall
We really can't boil a man's life down to seasonal divisions of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Seasons cycle perennially, and we enjoy them because… — Hideo Kojima
Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life. — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Those who turn against the Church do so to play to their own private gallery, but when, one day, the applause has died down and… — Neal A. Maxwell
It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but… — Benjamin Franklin
Why, friends, you go to do you know not what: Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves? Alas, you know not: I must tell you… — William Shakespeare
It is in the quiet crucible of your personal, private sufferings that your noblest dreams are born and God's greatest gifts are given. — Wintley Phipps
PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope. — Ambrose Bierce
The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason. — Immanuel Kant
Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by… — Karl Popper
The Hall was the place where the great lord used to eat . . . He ate not in private, except in time of sickness… — John Selden
When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip. — Henry David Thoreau
In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it. — Thomas Carlyle
I make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget him. I… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
I like to keep my private life private for the most part. — Bode Miller
It's odd to spend your vacation with someone else's music especially when you're alone. You're free to let loose, unobserved, but someone else has chosen… — Julia Glass
Effectively, it makes the greasepaint permanent, blurring the lines not only between public and private but also between the authentic and contrived self. If all… — Peggy Orenstein
The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the… — Rene Cassin
C++ also supports the notion of friends: cooperative classes that are permitted to see each other's private parts. — Grady Booch
When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that. — Imogen Cunningham
I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the… — Earl Browder
And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my… — Erich von Stroheim

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