Quotes About Private

I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.

For reasons steeped in flawed intuition, differing cultural norms, and superstition, detectives in Perugia almost immediately focused on Amanda Knox as the target of their investigation. It was this "junk profiling" that caused them to believe that because she didn't weep for the victim in public, she didn't weep in private. This lack of public display of grief caused them to falsely believe she killed her friend.

In everybody's life there are hidden chapters which they hope may never be known.

I'm not the head of Scotland Yard," said Mrs. Oliver, retreating from dangerous ground. "I'm a private individual -" "Oh, you're not that," said Rhoda, confusedly complimentary.

I am not concerned with nations, Monsieur. I am concerned with the lives of private individuals who have the right not to have their lives taken from them.

I remember my dear mother teaching me that a gentlewoman should always be able to control herself in public, however much she may give way in private.

Secret Service, I suppose," said Mrs. Oliver. "You can't tell me so, I know, but he wouldn't have been asked otherwise this evening. The four murderers and the four sleuths - Scotland Yard. Secret Service. Private. Fiction. A clever idea.

But she was not able to bring him peace of mind. It was as though he was angry that his happy private life should exist within the public circumstances that he hated. Or as though he longed that his personal happiness should extend to encompass all of Egypt.

MODESTY IS NOT ABOUT being covered up, but about awareness of a private life and of personal dignity. Today this concept of private dignity does not exist. As a result, everything is flaunted, everything is public. —RABBI YAAKOV WEINBERG (1923–1999)

I generally don't talk about my personal life. It is one area that I like to keep to myself.

In my personal life, I was quite a different Boy Next Door than the one Mr. and Mrs. Middle America imagined me to be.

I've been fairly private about my personal life. I've been approached by other companies to do a documentary about cosplay and about my life, but I've never felt comfortable.

My faith was started off by my grandmother and mother, and so I always saw it as a very private, personal thing.

With a private company, you've got to get into who's investing and what's the balance sheet like. So going public is a positive thing from the perspective of the sales organization.

Every single national park had some component of private philanthropy.

My age and my phone number are both unlisted.

I'm a Pisces, so I'm a very closed-book kind of person.

In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good.

People think it's funny that I enjoy dreaming so much. I just use it as a form of entertainment. It's very private. I don't see my dreams as separate. I mean, half the time I'm wandering around dreaming anyway.

If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

Up until the 1960s, women would meet designers in their private ateliers, and together they would build a relationship and a wardrobe. Then, all of a sudden, designers disappeared into their own private bubble, and there was no communication.

Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.

Who uses funds more productively - private citizens or the government? I dare say that Warren Buffett can use his surplus funds more effectively in private business and creating jobs than the government can.