Privately Quotes
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Interesting.
You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries,
but you imprison those who employ it privately.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek

Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts;
though we all had been most solemnly warned by the
cruel murder of Saint Francis.
- Maria Monk

A secret is not something unrevealed,
but something told privately, in a whisper.
- Marcel Pagnol

Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum.
Even though I listen to a lot of stuff,
the way I wrote was in my bedroom, really privately.
It's still the way I write, actually.
- Liz Phair

I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other.
It was unlike anything I was used to.
I started helping them strike the set and,
at 11, began taking acting classes privately.
- Jeffrey Tambor

Privately, I believe in none of them.
Neither do you.
Publicly, I believe in them all.
- Dalton Trumbo

I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers,
being free and exploring and making mistakes,
but I did it in France.
I did it privately.
- Molly Ringwald

Reading is like the sex act - done privately,
and often in bed.
- Daniel J. Boorstin

Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately.
Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.
- James Baker

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
- Publilius Syrus

The land which the Society of Jews will have secured
by international law must naturally be privately owned.
- Theodor Herzl

Praying privately in churches, I began to discover
that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now,
woven into this life.
- Lionel Blue

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is
sure that his neighbor needs them;
privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist,
and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
- Will Durant

Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately
and exploited for private interests,
and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas
that land should be utilized in common for the good of all.
- Neil Abercrombie

Publicly, we're saying we're better at fighting terrorism.
Privately, we know that the bureaucracy has only gotten worse,
since the high-level people are scared of being held responsible for 9/11.
- David Hunt

I published, privately, a collection of my serious
poetry I had written over the years.
I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends,
in a special deluxe edition.
It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it.
- Tom Glazer

What we're discussing privately and publicly,
is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs,
which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans,
which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut
for 95% of the American people.
- Nancy Pelosi

Donald and I still really wanted to be together,
but I was fighting to keep what we had privately,
and once the world gets involved in your life,
little by little it breaks it down until you forget
what it was in the first place.
- Marla Maples

These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me.
Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be
living in a little motel just around the corner here,
trying to make ends meet.
- Mel Brooks

They've found a way to privately, or within a small family group,
share expressions, or other images, drawings,
and then gain access to some of the world's great expressions
and images and make them real,
make them tangible.
- John Doerr

The Federal Government should be the last resort,
not the first.
Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility
or whether it can better be handled privately,
by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.
- Donald Rumsfeld

The only thing we don't do together is get in front
of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think.
We don't always agree, so we meet privately,
then one or the other will approach the actor.
- Bobby Farrelly

At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure
at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts:
the ability to grieve their loss privately and the
knowledge that their country is grateful for their
loved one's sacrifice and service.
- Dave Reichert

He or she must be successful in economic terms,
but always within an ethical framework.
Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and
its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business,
his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency.
- Lee R. Raymond

The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book,
but my husband burnt the book when he saw it.
I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately,
I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.
- Buchi Emecheta

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
- Joseph Campbell

Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus

God enters by a private door into each individual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Look at this butterfly, so beautiful, so delicate.
I can enjoy this butterfly from a distance,
but if I touched her, she would die.
While not quite as delicate as butterflies,
people also need private space and private time
away from the demands of the world -
even away from the attentions of those
with whom they are most bonded.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We may have our private opinions
but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
- Ambrose Bierce

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not.
The work is a private matter for the artist.
The house is not.
- Adolf Loos

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against.
It has to be treated equally with secular speech.
- Samuel Alito

The interior of the house personifies the private world;
the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
- Stephen Gardiner

As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour,
but I don't.
- Jay Alan Sekulow

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
- Louis D. Brandeis

A man's illness is his private territory and,
no matter how much he loves you and how close you are,
you stay an outsider.
You are healthy.
- Lauren Bacall

Nominally, there is one executive for every eight federal employees,
a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries.
- Martin L. Gross

Friendship's the privilege of private men;
for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.
- Nahum Tate

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much
do you think we spend altogether on our libraries,
public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
- John Ruskin

Duty is the great business of a sea officer;
all private considerations must give way to it,
however painful it may be.
- Horatio Nelson

The seven marvels that best represent man's achievements
over the last 2,000 years will be determined by Internet vote...
so look for Howard Stern's Private Parts to come in No.
1.
- Jon Stewart

And taking more money out of the private economy and
having the government perform as it has poorly done
with the stimulus I don't think is the right way to go.
- Mark Kirk

I'm a very private person.
- David Morse

Socialism is good when it comes to wages,
but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions
in life that are more private and painful,
for which I must seek answers elsewhere.
- Karel Capek

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory
exercise for the love of all men.
- John Henry Newman

There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on
the whole idea of people owning private property.
- Dixie Lee Ray

I like to keep my private stuff pretty vague.
- Thomas Haden Church

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

I'd love to talk to Joaquin Phoenix because he's a very private guy.
Also, he's creating a new kind of sexy leading man.
To me, his face is new and might be legendary someday.
- Isaac Mizrahi

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary
language in our private thoughts is one of the main
obstacles to progress in philosophy.
- Bertrand Russell

I went to elementary school in Ottawa,
and then to a private secondary school.
- Douglass North

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.
- Dyan Cannon

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

2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial
direct private investments that can swiftly transform
the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.
- Baldwin Spencer

I like having a private name and a public name.
It helps keep things straight.
- S. E. Hinton

People working in the private sector should try to save money.
There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.
- Norman Ralph Augustine

Acting is actually private.
- Joan Chen

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil,
a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.
- William Godwin

He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as
it affects the right of private property.
- Dixie Lee Ray

With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half
a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years,
we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity.
- Nick Lampson

If your partner wants to be private,
you have to respect that.
- Billie Jean King

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is
preferable to the good of a few or of one;
a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary,
the public before the private.
- Mary Astell

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to
the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.
- Allen Ginsberg

I get a bit of a kick out of exporting private enterprise and incentives.
- Fred L. Turner

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

I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be
private in public is a breach of taste,
common sense, and mental hygiene.
- Myrna Loy

In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation
that could assist film production because private broadcasters
are not interested in supporting Polish film.
- Andrzej Wajda

After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part,
cause we have nicknames.
So I named my private part pride...
it's not much but at least I have my pride.
- Jay London

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
- George Eliot

No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.
- Thomas Dewey