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Quotes About Private

In a remarkable research finding, Yasheng Huang, an MIT economist, established that Shanghai had the lowest number of private businesses relative to the city's size and its number of households in 2004, bar two other places in China. Only Beijing and Tibet, where government and the military are, respectively, the main businesses, had lower shares of private commerce.
~ Richard McGregor
Private discrimination also played a role, but it would have been considerably less effective had it not been embraced and reinforced by government.
~ Richard Rothstein
Trust is a foundation of leadership. We trust that a leader is honest, able, and has a vision of where to go. But trust operates on an even deeper level. We trust that a leader is who he appears to be, that the public person and the private one are the same.
~ Richard Stengel
We're going on a, um, windmill tour later this week." If I'd wanted to shut them all up, I'd definitely succeeded. They all looked stunned. Adrian spoke first. "I'm going to assume that means he's flying you to Amsterdam on his private jet. If so, I'd like to come along. But not for the windmills.
~ Richelle Mead
Oh, hey. This looks promising. " We came to a stop before a high, barbwire fence with an enormous PRIVATE PROPERTY--NO UNAUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ALLOWED sign on it. The lettering was red, apparently to emphasize how serious they were. Personally, I would have added a skull and crossbones to really drive the message home.
~ Richelle Mead
Aunque nuestra relación con Cristo es personal, la intención de Dios no es que sea privada.
~ Rick Warren
RSPCC MEETING STRICTLY PRIVATE THIS ROOM IS RESERVED FOR THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN
~ Roald Dahl
She seemed to be coiled in herself, as though with a secret she was jealously guarding.
~ Roald Dahl
Russell called the move "a lynching of orderly procedure in the Senate." Johnson's angry response—that "this was the only kind of lynching he had ever heard Russell object to"—was blurted out only in private
~ Robert A. Caro
Private,' he said firmly. 'Family matter. Go have a drink.' 'Whose family?' 'A death in yours, if you insist.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Jubal waved the man back. "Private," he said firmly. "Family matter. Go have a drink." "Whose family?" "A death in yours, if you insist. Scat!
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Another was a victim in an 'unexplained crash' of a private APV and the Confederacy Attorney General has ordered an investigation. But I seem to recall that the Attorney General herself was assassinated
~ Robert A. Heinlein
In the U.S. in the 1930s during the Great Depression there were over a thousand different private currencies in circulation until the Federal Reserve found out about it and had it stopped.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Try. Thoughts are the one phenomena still private in this world; they won't come around and arrest you at once. You have nothing to lose but mental chains. You might have a world of psychological freedom — creativity — to gain.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
That's what Archie did - built a house nobody could anticipate a need for, except himself, a house that was invisible to everyone else.
~ Robert Cormier
If you can be respectful and private but firm in this conversation, most problem behavior will stop. And remember, if the behavior is over the line, you shouldn't hesitate to contact HR to ensure your rights and dignity are protected.
~ Kerry Patterson
Maybe we honor the abusive style of so many coaches and other public figures because their public actions lend credibility to our own private outbursts.
~ Kerry Patterson
I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.
~ Khaled Hosseini
I know now that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Sorrow ought to be private, she thinks, not flaunted.
~ Khaled Hosseini
I know now that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, insanely, and without recourse
~ Khaled Hosseini
Rachel Morgan, private runner for hire. All rights earnestly upheld. All wrongs sincerely avenged.
~ Kim Harrison
Some secrets can never be known. They go to the grave with you like children never born. —LUCIA THE HUNTRESS, Valkyrie of mysterious origin, world's most skilled archeress
~ Kresley Cole
If he couldn't be the kind of guy I was proud to be with in public, the act he put on for me in private didn't mean anything.
~ Kristin Cast