Private Quotes

2742 Private quotes by 1926 unique authors

Perhaps the noblest private act is the unheralded effort to ... open our hearts once they've closed, to open our souls once they've shied away. — Mark Nepo
A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not… — Thomas Jefferson
I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us… — Neil Gaiman
Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There's a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing's kind of like exhibitionism in… — David Foster Wallace
Privatisation is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all... it is a… — Arundhati Roy
I try to stay as private as possible; I know that's difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it. — Derek Jeter
If the way of the sage is true, that we are all dreaming our world into being, then it has to apply not only to… — Alberto Villoldo
A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness. — Oswald Chambers
If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false. — John Owen
Marriage is by nature a covenant, Not just a private contract one may cancel at will.. — Bruce C. Hafen
I went through seventh grade in private school. I went to private school from kindergarten to seventh grade. — Stacie Orrico
It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine. — Portia de Rossi
In the planning and designing of new communities, housing projects, and urban renewal, the planners both private and public, need to give explicit consideration to… — Urie Bronfenbrenner
It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able… — Thomas B. Macaulay
I soon learned that Everest wasn't a private affair. It belonged to many men. — Tom Hornbein
I don't think any poetry is written that isn't primarily written to the self, in a way... I'm always talking to myself. But I seem… — Kay Ryan
That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began with… — Ramona Koval
A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him. — Ayn Rand
Christianity is unquestionably a personal experience. It is also unquestionably not a private experience. — William Barclay
Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer. — Charles Spurgeon
There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political — Renata Adler
The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by… — Andre Malraux
Great leaders have no need for reputation. Reputation is what you are in public. Character is who you are in private. — Myles Munroe
The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books. It… — Nell Freudenberger

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