Private Quotes

2742 Private quotes by 1926 unique authors

History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage of a religious… — Benjamin Franklin
For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality. — Lascelles Abercrombie
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen; and we shall most sincerely rejoice with you in the happy hour when… — George Washington
I'm actually a very quiet person off the golf course. I talk 150 miles per hour when I'm at the course, but when in private… — Lee Trevino
Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor… — Samuel Johnson
Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and… — Faith Baldwin
There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they're private jokes that are amusing to you… — Chad Harbach
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station. — Joseph Addison
In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage… — William Robertson Smith
I think my career would probably be in a better place had I been more aggressive. But I don't have it in me. I'm not… — Debi Mazar
There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place… — Daniel Libeskind
It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least… — Adam Clarke
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When my father finally got around to teaching me to drive, he was impressed at my "natural" talent for driving, not knowing that I had… — Robert Fulghum
Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin. — Moliere
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine… — Moliere
Private opinion creates public opinion. Public opinion overflows eventually into national behavior as things are arranged at present, can make or mar the world. That… — Jan Struther
That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs. — Albert Schweitzer
DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment. — Ambrose Bierce
For the Fourth Amendment protects people, not places. What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not… — Potter Stewart
The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that sense every novel is an… — Jose Emilio Pacheco
Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day. — Fred F. Fielding

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