Quotes About Private

I like it better that way," Lee said. "If they pretended sorrow they'd be liars. It doesn't mean anything to them. Maybe they'll think of me sometimes—privately. I don't want them to be sad. I hope I'm not so small-souled as to take satisfaction in being missed.

Poetry was a secret vice, and properly so.

As so often is the case, the public hero that others admire can leave quite a trail of private hurt in his wake.

Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.

I think someone in the union has the right to a private vote, and that's why I'm anti-card check. I grew up in a union family. My grandfather was a coal miner; he was in the union.

I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go home and have dinner with my family and nobody lets me get a word in.

My wedding was a very private affair for close family and friends, so I had decided to hold a reception in my native town.

It's relatively easy to act nice and normal in front of a crowd, or in public. The tricky part is doing it in private.

What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. Its just remarkable.

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

Everyone has a life no one knows about.

Success always hugs you in private. But Failure always slaps you in public! Thats life...

But certain favourite parts are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we find it easier to refer to their fictitious testimony than to that of a reality which we have almost entirely forgotten.

Work offers a defensible escape from a private life on the skids. Working myself to the point of exhaustion left me feeling purified. Exhilarated. I think it also gave me a sense that I was cheating mortality.

Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains those who steal from the public treasure go dressed in gold and purple.

You don't know that. And now we never will." "We're agents of the United States government, not some Third World dictator's private security force. That is not the way we work. We don't have

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

Rethinking capitalism means rethinking the role of the public sector, the role of the private sector, the role of finance, and the relationship between them all.

It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.

Anything that strengthens the private sector vs. the state is protective of personal freedom.

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.

If sex were shoes, I'd wear you out. But I wouldn't wear you out in public.

Los sentimientos se deslizan, a veces se refugian en guaridas de amor, pero cuando emergen al aire preso o libre, dan el color del mundo, no del universo inalcanzable sino del mundo chico, el contorno privado en que nos revolvemos. Gracias a ellos, a los sentimientos, tomamos conciencia de que no somos otros, sino nosotros mismos. Los sentimientos nos otorgan nombre, y con ese nombre somos lo que somos.

Mark, how did you find out?' and I go, 'What?' 'I only wanted a private wedding, I got wed today.' Of course, I thought why didn't you invite me then, you cunt? And I say, 'Congratulations, mate, and by the way you're sacked.' So you can see why he's a bit scarred.