Private Quotes

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

Everyone has a private self and a public self.

There is kind of a typical experience as a premier. You go in, you win a couple, you get out. Go serve on boards, take your head out of the political ringer and take on a much more private life.

I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.

If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.

I wish I could write more make-believe. It's a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong. But I've never been a private person.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

They offered me millions and millions and millions of dollars to write books about Cary. That was between us. That was private. I'll always love him.

Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?

Basically I am a private individual who has concerns about his country and who has resources that give me the privilege - and responsibility - to do something to help my country if I can.

We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction.

The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.

First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment, private.

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.

I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.

If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. Just shut the door. Just turn off the TV. And then you don't even have to worry about preschool. You have to worry about what's good for your kid, but you don't have to worry about how to position yourself.

Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.

I am stable when my private life is a success.

In the '20s they were telling us wed all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon.

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.

The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recession. We're seeing that the creation, we're seeing those numbers not only grow but shift toward the private sector and shift toward full-time employment and these are all signs that the recovery is taking some hold but we're not out of woods.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.

I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world.

These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

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

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information.