Quotes About Private

The person I am on the court is not who I am off the court.

People just get to see me onstage, and they don't get whole of me.

I don't like opening up in front of everyone.

One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It's hard to grow a company under a microscope of constant second guessing.

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

I keep lot of my opinions to myself.

It is a very ungentlemanly thing to read a private cigarette case. Algernon.  Oh! it is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't.  More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read. Jack.  I am quite aware of the fact, and I don't propose to discuss modern culture.  It isn't the sort of thing one should talk of in private. 

But now I was home. ... A roof over my head and a place to be private, to cry, to laugh, to gorge, to hope, to dream, to wallow, and to pray for things was a salve to my soul.

The ills attributed to an anthropomorphic abstraction called society may be laid more realistically at the door of Everyman. Utopia must spring in the private bosom before it can flower into civic virtue, inner reforms leading to outer ones. A man who has reformed himself will reform thousands.

bit to find out what really happened. So do it. I'd like you to investigate Jenkins's death as my private investigator. The Sunset Cove PD is convinced they have their man—or woman, as it turns

I think it is right that you should know I am here in the capacity of a private enquiry agent. If she had announced that she was there in the capacity of a Fairy Godmother or of First Murderer, she could hardly have surprised him more. In fact, the Fairy Godmother would have seemed quite appropriate by comparison.

Das Konsortium« ist eine private Organisation mit Büros in sieben Nationen. Ihr Name wurde aus Gründen der Sicherheit und des Datenschutzes

But it seems that the government had a true account of it, and several counsels 5 were held about ways to prevent its coming over; but all was kept very private.

Dreams are private myths; myths are shared dreams).

His exterior appearance was polished, and yet it did little to hide the real man inside from anyone who did business with him, the rough and violent ex-cop who had found a much better life as a private detective maneuvering in and out of the countless cracks that existed between laws. I

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was yet so absolutely non-existent in fact.

What is called the morality of a society is no more than a consequence of the morality of individuals. There is, by the same token, no such thing as a purely private morality, for the morals of private citizens are public in effect, and are increasingly so.

A Welshman is always glad to add to his private store of tales.

Greville swore all the time in private, arguing that we owed it to the English language to exploit the full range of forceful expressions it offered.

It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all.

The individual's religion may be egotistic, and those private realities which it keeps in touch with may be narrow enough; but at any rate it always remains infinitely less hollow and abstract, as far as it goes, than a science which prides itself on taking no account of anything private at all.

The submission which you demand of yourself to the general fact of evil in the world, your apparent acquiescence in it, is here nothing but the conviction that evil at large is none of your business until your business with your private particular evils is liquidated and settled up.

In private conversation he disclosed himself as a forceful and logical speaker, which, when tempered with a fanatical earnestness, made a very deep impression on a neutral listener.