Private Quotes

2742 Private quotes by 1926 unique authors

I'm a very private person. I don't go out much. I'm home with kids. I go to work. I don't really like being the focus… — Angelina Jolie
I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in… — David Hare
My zest for exhibition has over a long career become increasingly a mania. The ecstasy I feel as I survey work I have done I… — Joseph Plaskett
It’s relatively easy to act nice and normal in front of a crowd, or in public. The tricky part is doing it in private. — Robert Black
The True conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injustices and inequalities as arise from it. The… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private profit, strengthened of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large… — Mahatma Gandhi
The Christian Coalition of Alabama will work to ensure that reckless trial lawyers and activist judges will not be able to open the floodgates to… — Johnny Giles
One thing I fear, that you Americans will do the same thing that you did after the last war. I mean that you will pull… — Hjalmar Schacht
Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a period of preparation… — Grace Abbott
It strikes me often while I am in Iran that were Christian evangelicals to take a tour of Iran today, they might find it the… — Hooman Majd
Suspicionless surveillance has no place in a democracy. The next 60 days are a historic opportunity to rein in the NSA, but the only one… — Edward Snowden
Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place in a church… — D. Patrick Miller
If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which sees… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was yet so absolutely… — Ouida
The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that one can live… — Marcus Aurelius
The education of our people should be a lifelong process by which we continue to feed new vigor into the lifestream of the Nation through… — John F. Kennedy
Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle… — William Wordsworth
No government proposal more complicated than "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private" ever works. — P.J. O'Rourke
A cool blooded and crafty politician, when he would be thoroughly revenged on his enemy, makes the injuries which have been inflicted, not on himself,… — Charles Caleb Colton
The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction. — John Kenneth Galbraith
In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Private enterprise did not get us atomic energy. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so far from being… — William Hazlitt
Public postures have the configuration of private derangement. — Tom Stoppard

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