Quotes About Private

Evolution had turned man into a sharply isolating creature, seeing the world not only anthropocentrically but singly, mirroring the way we like to think of our private selves.

litigation funders are private companies that raise money from their investors to buy into big lawsuits.

There were small ones where more private matters were handled without juries, then there was the main courtroom on the second floor where lawyers battled like gladiators and judges ruled like kings. At

In case you don't know, there's virtually no security with private jet travel. No scanners for bags or body searches. I guess the smart guys at Homeland Security figure rich people have little interest in blowing up their own jets en route. Anyway, you could literally pack a hundred pounds of pure heroin and fly anywhere domestically.

What she might have told him was that taxidermy, like sex, is a very personal subject; the manner in which we impose it on others should be discreet.

Even before she started talking to Franny, I could see how desperately important this woman's private unhappiness was to her, and how—in her mind—the only credible reaction to the event of rape was hers. That someone else might have responded differently to a similar abuse only meant to her that the abuse couldn't possibly have been the same.

In my private apocalypse he will be impaled upon his own nightstick.

There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.

For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and private schools.

The loans I took out for my undergraduate degree were manageable. But my legal education was more expensive, and I paid for it almost entirely through public and private loans.

I'm actually very introverted. I'm very shy. I'm very emotional.

To camp is a mode of seduction... Behind the 'straight' public sense in which something can be taken, one has found a private zany experience of the thing.

Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.

Faith in Jesus must be personal but it cannot be private.

To create a community where faith matters not just in theory but in reality, faith has to be a public value, not just a private one.

She grows up with a hidden, private flame inside her: it licks at her, warms her, warns her. You need to get away, the flame tells her. You must.

And as these words come, one after another, it is possible for him to slip away from himself and find a peace so absorbing, so soothing, so private, so joyous that nothing else will do.

The sun is pure communism everywhere but in cities, where it's private property.

Mme. de Gallardon, who could never stop herself from sacrificing her greatest social ambitions and highest hopes of someday dazzling the world to the immediate, obscure, and private pleasure of saying something disagreeable.

Do any of the private companies send reps or IT guys here?

Nearly everybody has his box of secret pain, shared with no one.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

Nearly everyone has had a box of secret pain, shared with no one.