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Quotes About Private

We have always conducted our relationship privately, and we hope that as we consciously uncouple and coparent, we will be able to continue in the same manner.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
I just want my relationship to be more for myself rather than a public statement.
~ Cynthia Nixon
Frank [Moore Cross], publicly dissects the text but he has a private, passionate relationship to the text that he doesn't often speak of publicly.
~ Frank Moore Cross
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 forever separate.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.
~ Mary Douglas
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 setting.
~ D. Patrick Miller
Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
~ Franz Grillparzer
Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.
~ Bill O'Reilly
In spite of the fact that everyone thinks I am very much a rottweiler - that i am very dark and everything - I have a side that is very romantic that i show to very few people.
~ Riccardo Tisci
All of this caused Kiyoaki constant pain. In comparison with Satoko's public humiliation, however, he did not even have a slighting remark to contend with. And however acute his private agony, it was, after all, the torment of a coward.
~ Yukio Mishima
We are firmly convinced that private capital, Chinese as well as foreign, must be given liberal opportunities for broad development in postwar China; for China needs industrial growth.
~ zedong mao
Friends told me that the latest trend, at least in Europe, is public sex. They showed me some clips, and they're terrifying. A couple enters a streetcar, half-full, simply takes a seat, undresses, and starts to do it. You can see from surprised faces that it's not staged. It's pure working-class suburb. But what's fascinating is that the people all look, and then they politely ignore it. The message is that even if you're together in public with people, it still counts as private space.
~ zizek slavoj iii
Women have a lot of power in private life. There are many men who would say, 'Hey, women already rule my life.' But with women, more is more. The more there are, the more the world gets used to seeing them. We change the culture. We begin to expand options and lead and manage.
~ Dee Dee Myers
Curiosity was a bad character trait for a private investigator to have. It created work.
~ Dee Henderson
No one else, however much you love and adore the person, sees the true significance of your private epiphanies. The secret belongs to you, with you, in you. In the title Shiva Sutra, the word Shiva means "God" and the word Sutra means "thread," so quite deliberately the reader is being shown tiny threads that lead back to the eternal source.
~ Deepak Chopra
airline executives who have created an experience so unpleasant that their best customers flee for private options and others avoid flying if they can;
~ Jeffrey Pfeffer
Now, I'm not saying that we don't need rules in society. But the question of who makes the rules and on what basis becomes supremely important. Will the rule-making flow from the matrix of voluntary exchange based on the ethic of serving others through private enterprise? Or will the rules be made and enforced by people wearing guns and bulletproof vests with a license to shock or kill based on minor annoyances?
~ Jeffrey Tucker
The smile, the look, tugged at Eleanor's heart. Even in the fleeting glance, she'd seen great love in Ian's eyes, his determination to finish this letter and send it to Beth so she could enjoy decoding it. A way to tell her sweet nothings that no one else could understand. Private thoughts, shared between husband and wife.
~ Jennifer Ashley
Visual journals are created in a secret language of symbols. Intentional or not, they are private maps only their makers can follow.
~ Jennifer New
And then there is our personal history. Memories only we share. Things not another living soul would understand.
~ Emily Giffin
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
~ Epictetus
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.     44
~ Eric Hoffer
Public life for Georgian gentlemen invariably assumed the taking of office, but there was no formal place for their wives in the machinery of local government. However, this rough division between private and public could be applied to almost any century or any culture–a fact which robs the distinction of its analytical purchase. 19
~ Amanda Vickery