Private Quotes

2742 Private quotes by 1926 unique authors

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is… — Allen Ginsberg
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private… — Allen Ginsberg
Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church. — Allen Ginsberg
Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind. — William Godwin
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state… — Ulysses S. Grant
You can't control the paparazzi. But if you go to Coachella you're going to get photographed. Whereas if you're at home, walking down the street… — Ashley Greene
It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private… — Germaine Greer
A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human… — William Greider
My dad and mom believed that you do what you have to do in private and don't make a big deal out of it. Just… — Harry Connick, Jr.
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. — Cyril Connolly
Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply… — Steve Coogan
The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to… — Jeff Cooper
Public behavior is merely private character writ large. — Stephen Covey
Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality. — Sloane Crosley
Cats and their owners are on a private, exclusive loop of affection. Thus cats have become symbolic of a community eschewed and a hyper-engagement with… — Sloane Crosley
Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own. — E E Cummings
The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation,… — Mitch Daniels
No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to… — Mitch Daniels
Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'. — Richard Dawkins
To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life. — Catherine Deneuve
People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life. — Catherine Deneuve
I'm worried about privacy because of the young people who don't give a damn about their privacy, who are prepared to put their entire private… — Alan Dershowitz
When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven Spielberg is a gamer. — Vin Diesel
It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do… — Vin Diesel
But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely. — Janice Dickinson

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