Top 1200 Private Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I became a recluse many times and enjoyed a private life I didn't have during the '60s.

Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.

I get a bit of a kick out of exporting private enterprise and incentives.

It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.

I think all of these companies staying private for as long as they are is actually pretty bad.

A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.

I don't think anyone's private life stands up to public scrutiny.

Private sector cannot substitute the role of the government in primary education.

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

Give me, kind heaven, a private station, a mind serene for contemplation.

I'm a private contractor now. I choose my clients, not the other way around.

Offscreen, I'm a private person. I'm shy and don't know how to face the public.

The modern habit of saying "This is my opinion, but I may be wrong" is entirely irrational. If I say that it may be wrong, I say that is not my opinion. The modern habit of saying "Every man has a different philosophy; this is my philosophy and it suits me" – the habit of saying this is mere weak-mindedness. A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

My family has always been private about our time spent together.

In general, I think I'm a very private person. But I also love human beings.

I was a natural skater, but I also took private lessons to enhance my skills.

The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

My focus has always been on being a singer. It's easy enough to keep it private.

I don't believe that employers should have access to an employee's private passwords, including Facebook.

Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.

I'll be directing some more 'Private Practice' episodes when we wrap 'Caprica.'

I think there's not much patience for organized labour, period, public or private sector.

People think because you're private, you have something you don't want them to know.

It used to be that people could be painfully boring in private. Facebook changed all that.

There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.

The government is one entity which can control fraud, both public and private.

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.

You can't believe the amount of speculation you get over your private life.

Much of the real computer talent today is concentrated in the private sector.

Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.

I don't go to journalists' houses and start dishing about anything private.

I would never call myself mysterious. The word I use is 'private.'

I derive a lot of the values that I try to bring into the public sphere from my private faith.

I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.

We feel that the government should not interfere too much in private sector.

We own the world's largest private air force; it's 80 fighter jets.

The world is going to come to a place where we're all being spied on and nothing is private.

The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue.

I've always felt if you followed a real private detective around, it would be boring.

I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.

Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.

A private company can't compete against the resources of the second largest economy in the world.

All communication on today's networks are being monitored by government agencies and private companies.

Everything is just so much more romantic and real when it's yours and it's private.

Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy.

We are the only nation where paper is still the mainstay in the private insurance industry.

I guess I'm dedicated to breaking every inherited mould I can in my private life.

At the same time that I love meeting people and stuff, I'm a very private person.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

Facebook is a private company and, therefore, is entitled to whatever political biases it holds.

Private markets, where everyone has an equal opportunity is the only system that works.

I am very inspired by the exploration of space via private means.

What is public for you, Elie [Wiesel], is private for Frank [Moore Cross], and the reverse.

Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

What people do in their private lives, these are not big issues that our country's dealing with.

I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.

But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.

The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.