Private Quotes - page 89

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
I've never considered myself a strong reader or writer. When I was younger, I had some hardships with reading and writing, and I never thought of myself as someone who could pull this off. To a degree it was challenging. In my everyday life, I'm pretty private and reserved, so the hardest part was taking personal emotion and putting it on the page and putting myself out there... View quote
Ian Purkayastha
Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values. View quote
Louis Brandeis
The most important political office is that of the private citizen. View quote
Louis Brandeis
Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies. View quote
Bill Gates
Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to. View quote
Bill Gates
It took a little over a decade to build a coalition strong enough to beat the insurance companies, but in 1990, then Senator Tom Daschle and I passed a law regulating the private market for supplemental Medicare insurance policies. View quote
Ron Wyden
Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public. View quote
E. W. Howe
Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to be the whole of existence. Yet we can break out of this shell and enter a new world. View quote
Eknath Easwaran
Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,' 'public good,' 'public welfare,' and the like. It has no legal meaning, except when used to describe the separate, private, individual rights of a greater or less number of individuals. View quote
Lysander Spooner
It is with government paper, and bank paper, as it is with the paper of private persons; that is, it is worth just what can be delivered in redemption of it, and no more. We all understand that the notes of the Astors, and Stewarts, and Vanderbilts, though issued by millions, and tens of millions, are really worth their nominal values. (Lysander Spooner)
Advanced planning is another area which the private sector has excelled, but not government. However, today's changing market conditions, increasing demands, shrinking budgets and even globalization force us to look at the way we provide our judicial services in a different light. It is no longer enough that we do our job, we now have to do it with a greater sense of purpose and accountability every step of the way. View quote
Federico Hernández Denton
These people seemed to think that whizzing through space in a car really altered the universe for them, but they were wrong; each one remained right in the centre of his private universe, which is the only field of knowledge of which he has any direct experience. View quote
Robertson Davies
As I plodded back and forth I reflected miserably upon my own political rootlessness, in a world where politics is so important. When I am with Tories I am a violent advocate of reform; when I am with reformers I hold forth on the value of tradition and stability. When I am with communists I become a royalist - almost a Jacobite; when I am with socialists I am an advocate of free trade, private enterprise and laissez-faire. View quote
Robertson Davies
I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity, helping companies grow from the ground up. View quote
Jim Rogers
Talk often, but not long. The talent of haranguing in private company is insupportable. View quote
George Horne
The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway. View quote
Rachel Maddow
The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that's why they're called public servants. They're supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that's why we're called private individuals. View quote
Glenn Greenwald
Do you know what the overhead is of the Medicare system? One-point-zero-five percent. Do you know what - private insurance is 30 percent in overhead and profits? Given a choice how I'm going to improve health care, I'm going to take it away from private insurance profits and overhead. Wouldn't you? View quote
Anthony Weiner
The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family. View quote
Eminem
So, Mr. Chadband--of whom the persecutors say that it is no wonder he should go on for any length of time uttering such abominable nonsense, but that the wonder rather is that he should ever leave off, having once the audacity to begin--retires into private life until he invests a little capital of supper in the oil-trade. (Charles Dickens)
The [chief] characteristic of Hitler's leadership [was] his over-estimation of the power of the will. [To win the war] this will had only to be translated into faith down to the youngest private soldier. View quote
Erich von Manstein
The increase in salaries at private companies has exploded, and Romania also faces a labor shortage, especially in construction. We believe that the Romanian market will remain an incentive, so that migration will not be an issue. View quote
Traian Basescu
I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway. View quote
Shimon Peres
But a greater evil of the present system becomes more and more marked; namely, that in a system based on private appropriation, all that is necessary to life and to production - land, housing, food and tools - having once passed into the hands of a few, the production of necessities that would give well-being to all is continually hampered. View quote
Peter Kropotkin