Private Quotes

2742 Private quotes by 1926 unique authors

The qualities that made for success in a fighter-pilot seemed to be just those sturdy qualities that made for success in other professions; observation, initiative,… — Jim Bailey
I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don't think that my private life needs to be on display for… — Kajol
The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of personal freedom and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public. — W. Somerset Maugham
We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall. — Annie Dillard
Commercial society regards people as bundles of appetites, a conception that turns human beings inside out, leaving nothing to be regarded as inherently private. — George Will
Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle. — William Ralph Inge
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private. — Ben Jonson
Educational progress is a national concern; education is a private one. — Nikki Giovanni
Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to transform insignificant childhood… — Thomas Szasz
My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go… — Benjamin Franklin
No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work. — Woodrow Wilson
Many teenagers are tormented by terrors they deem private and personal. They do not know that their anxieties and doubts are universal. — Haim Ginott
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants. — Samuel Johnson
In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the… — Karl Marx
Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity.… — Brooks Atkinson
To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is something I want to… — Euripides
Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh… — William J. Clinton
Remember that you are but an actor, acting whatever part the Master has ordained. It may be short or it may be long. If he… — Epictetus
Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses: if short, then in a short one; if long,… — Epictetus
There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard.… — Nelson DeMille
The more skillful the performance of false cheer, the more pleasing the effect is upon one's public and on that private audience to whom one… — Judith Martin
We are self-uncertain creatures, and we may Yea, even when we know not, mix our spites And private hates with our defence of Heaven. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Acting a part is not always synonymous with lying; it is far often the best way of serving the truth. It is more truthful to… — Elizabeth Goudge
No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life. — Thomas E. Dewey

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