Private Quotes

• As excited as I was about becoming a new father, my disappointment now is equally as strong. So out of respect for all that are involved, please allow this situation to remain private.

  

  Chris Cagle
  • Father
  • Situation
  • Disappointment

• We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.

  

  George Eliot
  • Discovery
  • Private
  • Humiliated

• Bitcoin is two things which share a name. One, it's a payment system, and two, it's a currency. You use the Bitcoin payment system to send bitcoins as currency from one account holder to another. The transfer is instantaneous, carries no fee, works anywhere in the world, and is private.

  

  Erik Voorhees
  • System
  • Anywhere
  • Transfer

• I'm a product of public schools. They are resource-challenged, and when you take those dollars away from public schools and send them to private schools, you're further starving the system.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Private
  • Challenged
  • Public Schools

• The thing that is most interesting about people is the way they are when no one is looking at them or the way they are when they are in private.

  

  Suzanne Vega
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Looking

• You can ask me anything you want; I'm very opinionated... except about my private life. I don't want to talk about that.

  

  Wissam Al Mana
  • Life
  • Private
  • Opinionated

• Every thought, action, decision, or feeling creates an eddy in the interlocking, inter-balancing energy fields of life. In this interconnected universe, every improvement we make in our private world improves the world at large for everyone.

  

  David Hawkins
  • Action
  • Improvement
  • Fields

• I will always fight for a woman's right to choose and the right to privacy. Reproductive issues are medical related issues and they should be kept private between a woman and her doctor.

  

  Alma Adams
  • Woman
  • Right
  • Private

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

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Image
  • Private
  • Solitute

• I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners.

  

  Wilbur Ross
  • Industry
  • Companies
  • Cottage

• American Morons is the work of an original. Like Hitchcock or Ramsey Campbell, the style is precise, alert, and well-mannered, inviting us to enter Hirshberg's private world so that he may lock the door behind us. If there is anyone in contemporary fiction worth watching, it is Glen Hirshberg.

  

  Dennis Etchison
  • American
  • Watching
  • Contemporary

• I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown.

  

  Alan Autry
  • Goal
  • Public
  • Partnerships

• I thought everyone must know that a short jacket is always worn with a silk hat at a private view in the morning.

  

  Edward VII
  • View
  • Private
  • Jacket

• I have been subjected to unwarranted and invasive scrutiny of the most intimate and private details of my being.

  

  Caster Semenya
  • Details
  • Intimate
  • Scrutiny

• I was happy to be involved in an art for the people and not for private drawing rooms. It was inexpensive, accessible to the general public, and it found a home in poor families as well as in more affluent circles.

  

  Alphonse Mucha
  • Art
  • Involved
  • Private

• You appear to know more of my private history than I have the pleasure of knowing of yours. Pray, sir, may I—but, bless me! are you unwell?” I asked this in some alarm, because the little man was rolling about in his seat, holding his sides, and growing very red in the face.

  

  R. M. Ballantyne
  • History
  • Pleasure
  • Knowing

• Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be attending to his own business.

  

  Aristotle
  • Progress
  • Sense
  • Rule

• I don't necessarily put on an act when I go on Jay Leno or dress differently in public than I do in private. I'd like to think I'm the same person, more or less.

  

  Mila Kunis
  • Public
  • Dress
  • Jay Leno

• Early in your interviews, you denied being touched in your private areas, didn't you?

  

  Thomas Mesereau
  • Interviews
  • Private
  • Touched

• I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams.

  

  Celine Dion
  • Life
  • Business
  • Dreams

• It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Soldier
  • Private

• Im looking for leaders who are going to go to Washington for a season, not career politicians. People who understand that the strength of America comes from the private sector, not Washington, D.C.

  

  Keith Rothfus
  • People
  • America
  • Leader

• A lot of acting is private time.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Time
  • Acting
  • Private

• The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.

  

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky
  • Future
  • Concerned
  • Property

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