Quotes About Private

use of government that enriched one group of people at the expense of another, and which would be illegal if private individuals tried to carry it out themselves.

Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

What is a secret wish? It is what you want but cannot ask.

The dream then, instead of being something apart from reality, a private world of fantasy or imagination, is actually an essential part of our reality which can be shared and communicated by means of imagery.

The place of private prayer is the key, the strategic position, where decisive victory is obtained.

We all face the prospect that what is supposed to be a private decision—the termination of a pregnancy—might become the first step in a campaign to eliminate people with disabilities.

She had a poignantly vacant, vulnerable quality that made her a reflection of everybody's private fantasies.

Her private soul read like a poster by her little sister.

Jackie Rodowsky's private BSC nickname is the Walking Disaster. Abby says he has the Sadim touch. Sadim is Midas backward. Everything he touches turns into an accident.

The memory of useful things may receive considerable aid, if they are thrown into verse.Watts'sImprovement of the Mind. Your patrimonial stores in peace possess;Undoubted all your filial claim confess:Your private right should impious power invade,The peers of Ithaca would arm in aid.Pope'sOdyssey,b. i.2.

The revolutions of the twentieth century, the liberation of the masses by production, created private life but gave nothing to fill it with.

the old lady to the movies or reading. Once in a while he slipped away to a lecture. He was studying law too. Grammick wasn't going to be sucked away from all private existence. I went along with this rush

Speak of things public to the public, but of things lofty and secret only to the loftiest and most private of your friends. Hay to the ox and sugar to the parrot.

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honor, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty: and this public passion must be superior to all private passions

Then love of pleasure sways each heart, and we From that no more than from ourselves can fly. Blameless when govern'd well. But where it errs Extravagant, and wildly leads to ill, Public or private, there its curbing pow'r Cool reason must exert.

individual investors, as opposed to institutional ones, which is to say people who would be described anywhere but on Wall Street as private individuals—played an astonishingly large role in the whole affair, accounting for an unprecedented 56.8 per cent of the total volume.

Remove God from the world of ideas. Remove government, politics from society. Keep sex, humor, utilities. Let private property go.

Relying on the market to provide both private and public goods will always lead to underprovision of the latter.

The crisis is primarily, perhaps almost entirely, the consequence of decisions taken by private firms in an environment of minimal regulation

Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.

All the stuff that makes life worth living is produced privately, and all that the government does is slow down the progress of civilization and bring destruction and disaster wherever it goes.

Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.

I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.