Private Quotes

2742 Private quotes by 1926 unique authors

Both rich and poor nations have a common stake in policies that put the globe on a sustainable development path. The conflict is less between… — Robert Kuttner
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of… — Robert A. Heinlein
In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please… — Jonathan Swift
Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends. — Jonathan Swift
Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth. — Benjamin Franklin
If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for… — Sydney J. Harris
What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony? — William Shakespeare
The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst! — William Shakespeare
No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests. — Mark Twain
Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished… — David Lloyd George
One must believe that private dilemmas are, if deeply examined, universal, and so, if expressed, have a human value beyond the private, and one must… — May Sarton
And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than by… — John Dryden
Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private. — Alexander Pope
I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall suffer for it...… — Edgar Degas
There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their faces set in… — Pete Hamill
The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative cell. It is… — Thomas Merton
One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all. — Susan Sontag
To camp is a mode of seduction... Behind the 'straight' public sense in which something can be taken, one has found a private zany experience… — Susan Sontag
Sundown. The distressed sloop, its mainmast shattered by lightning, its sails ripped by the winds of the open sea, drifted into the small, quiet beach… — Robert Ludlum
Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions of… — Carol Anshaw
In general, I don't care for scenes of copulation.Certain functions of the human body are bloody private. — William Holden
Introverts are offered keys to private gardens full of riches. To possess such a key is to tumble like Alice down her rabbit hole. She… — Susan Cain
This legislation provides Medicaid eligibility to evacuees and residents in (Federal Emergency Management Agency) designated disaster counties, .. It also helps pay private health insurance… — Thad Cochran

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