Private Quotes

2742 Private quotes by 1926 unique authors

Industrialisation is necessary. But acquisition is by no means the only avenue through which it can be achieved. The Cochin Airport is a prime example… — Jairam Ramesh
My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my… — F. H. Bradley
Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. These were its assets: a tiny white van, two desks, two… — Alexander McCall Smith
You know what circumcision is, Private? — Bernard Cornwell
Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt anyone. — Catherynne M. Valente
What happens style wise behind closed doors, in your home, shouldn't be incidental. Home isn't just where you stow your things or sack out for… — Rachel Zoe
Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another. — Carolina Herrera
For the corporation executives, the military metaphysic often coincides with their interest in a stable and planned flow of profit; it enables them to have… — C. Wright Mills
The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ. By it we… — Pope Benedict XIV
I am for a clear distinction between public and private life. I believe private matters should be regulated in private and I have asked those… — Francois Hollande
Medicare provided guaranteed equal coverage, something that the private sector could not — Bennie Thompson
A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. — Eleanor Robson Belmont
If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not… — Yunjin Kim
It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy… — Marc Rich
Our parents don't know us... They can't know us. We hide ourselves from them. Once they knew everything about us and in order to escape… — Ellen Sussman
Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is what it is.… — Charles Edward Montague
When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only… — Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
In this interconnected universe, every improvement we make in our private world improves the world at large for everyone. We all float on the collective… — David R. Hawkins
The most important office... that of private citizen. — Louis D. Brandeis
The true patriot scrutinizes the actions of his own government with unceasing vigilance. And when his government violates the morality and rightness associated with principles… — Jacob G. Hornberger
But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that… — William Ralph Inge
However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem is always found… — Wendell Berry
There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Nature has poured forth all things for the common use of all men. And God has ordained that all things should be produced that there… — Ambrose

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