Private Quotes - page 4

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. (John McGahern)
Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly. View quote
Elihu Root
Most people have the wrong idea about me because I've been very private. View quote
Carol Vorderman
Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens. View quote
Cathy Guisewite
I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind of life and to realize that they could make out and advance their own professional and private and social lives. View quote
Katherine Dunham
It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine. View quote
Portia de Rossi
I always intended to return to the private sector. View quote
Don Nickles
The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right. View quote
Ezra Stiles
Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day. View quote
Fred F. Fielding
I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either. View quote
Francesca Annis
What was a really private and nice relationship was judged and made to be something ugly. (Marla Maples)
As a private person I think I am now totally different from Ruud van Nistelrooy the footballer. View quote
Ruud van Nistelrooy
A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values? View quote
William Greider
As part of Social Security reform, I believe that private savings accounts are a part of it - along the lines that President Bush proposed. View quote
John McCain
Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining. View quote
Samuel Pepys
Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge. View quote
Anthony Kennedy
I've always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when there are so many more important and exciting things to discuss. View quote
David Gerrold
If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens, trophies obtained by the bloodstained steel, or the tattered flags of the tented field, will never be envied. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Is it not the glory of the people of America, that, whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and other nations, they have not suffered a blind veneration for antiquity, for custom, or for names, to overrule the suggestions of their own good sense, the knowledge of their own situation, and the lessons of their own experience? To this manly spirit, posterity will be indebted for the possession, and the world for the example, of the numerous innovations displayed on the American theatre, in favor of private rights and public happiness. View quote
James Madison
Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice, we must be just. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention, and I wouldn't underestimate the value of that. But they're not designed to take care of social needs. (George Soros)
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be here today. And I say without the slightest remorse, that we wouldn't be here, we would not have made economic progress, if we had not intervened on very personal matters - who your neighbour is, how you live, the noise you make, how you spit, or what language you use. We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
Man's own form in space – his body – was a private prison; and that it was because of this imprisoning misery – because he was hungry and overworked and went to a horrid place called home late at night in the rain, and his bones ached and his head was heavy. View quote
Willem de Kooning
America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way. View quote
Ayn Rand