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Quotes About Private

excitement. Her words do not, though she speaks softly enough that I'm the only one able to hear them. "Hi, Andy," she says. "What's
~ David Rosenfelt
In one of the rare moments that he discussed his private beliefs, Lincoln declared he would join a church if he found one whose only requirement was to follow the Golden Rule.
~ David S. Reynolds
What you do with your money in order to satisfy your urge to gamble and to speculate is your own private concern.
~ David Schneider
Speeding around his own private racetrack in his own Formula One racing car. Some
~ David Walliams
What we see as risk and foolhardiness on the outside can seem more like a constant cohesive drive on the inside that holds to priorities that cannot be discerned by others because they reside in a far too private chamber of personal experience to be shared easily. To dare everything is not necessarily to travel off, but often the opposite, to have faith in a foundation you have discovered in life and which, though it is difficult to describe, even to yourself, you refuse to relinquish.
~ David Whyte
My father had once famously stated in Parliament that religion was as intimate as lovemaking and ought to be as private.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Success always hugs you in private, but failure slaps you in the public...
~ sahil banga
Exist? în istoria oamenilor revolu?ii private are nu sunt cu nimic mai prejos, în ceea ce prive?te profunzimea ?i r?sturn?rile pe care le antreneaz?, decât revolu?iile publice.
~ Jean d'Ormesson
Há muitos anos que me ocupo dessa tradução: a esfera privada na qual, todavia, ainda não me instalei confortavelmente, e onde tudo deve caminhar com conscienciosidade e responsabilidade, é a língua alemã.
~ Elias Canetti
What the deuce does religion have to do with being a good minister? It is a profession like any other profession, young man. You fit yourself to the task, and keep your opinions private. That is what all good ministers do—or should!
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
For he fully intended to be with her in the future legally and sanctioned by the church in public, intimate and loving in private.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
The princess, however, most innocent of excellent women, had never spoken privately to Anna of Karlchen except once, when she inquired whether he were to have the best sheets on his bed, or the second best sheets; and Anna had replied, "The worst.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
Such a conception is paradoxical if you will persist in thinking of the actual world as a collection of passive actual substances with their private characters or qualities. In that case, it must be nonsense to ask, how one such substance can form a component in the make-up of another such substance.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
In these early anonymous seasons, God graciously grants us the opportunity to wrestle with our appetites before other lives are at stake, to struggle with our passions privately before moral collapse affects the innocent publicly.
~ Alicia Britt Chole
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 world public, that's what the poet does.
~ 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 world public, that's what the poet does.
~ Allen Ginsberg
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.
~ Terry Eagleton
It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors.
~ John Sergeant Wise
Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.
~ Bill Owens
I know plenty of people with kids in elite, private schools and had heard many stories. I have drifted into the homes of some of those very wealthy families in New York and am fascinated with the dynamic and how much freedom the children are given.
~ Jane Green
The Arab view that someone should bomb Iran and stop it from developing nuclear weapons is familiar to anyone who meets privately with Arab leaders, especially in the Gulf.
~ Elliott Abrams
I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?
~ Brenda Blethyn
I'm extremely self-critical. Although I try not to be ridiculous about it, wearing horsehair shirts and all that. It's a private exercise I don't necessarily share with other people.
~ Gina McKee