Quotes about private
Jay Alan Sekulow -
As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.
Chris Kraus - I Love Dick
Isn't the greatest freedom in the world the freedom to be wrong? What hooks me on our story is our different readings of it. You think it's personal and private my neurosis... I think our story is performative philosophy.
Sanober Khan - Turquoise Silence
Every heart must have its privatebestseller book.
Garth Greenwell -
[L]ike poems, cruising carves privacy out of public spaces. Poems are a kind of private communication that occurs in public speech. And I think cruising is that too: a training in reading occult codes; a way of seeing a significance in the world that most people don’t see.
Richard Rodríguez -
The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay.
Sunday Adelaja -
Fear of failure is closely connected with the apprehension of failure in any field of life, such as career, business, education of private life
Mary Balogh - Simply Magic
Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.
Edwin Louis Cole -
Prayer in private results in boldness in public.
Don Roff -
Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.
Agatha Christie -
Such nice people, the Hillingdons, though she's not really very easy to know, is she? I mean, she's always very pleasant and all that, but one never seems to get to know her better.'Miss Marple agreed thoughtfully. 'One never knows what she is thinking.''Perhaps that is just as well.''I beg your pardon?''Oh nothing really, only that I've always had the feeling that perhaps her thoughts might be rather disconcerting.
Dixie Waters -
Anatomy lessons are much more fun when conducted in a private coed environment.
Merlyn Gabriel Miller - Drugs & Madness
Prostitution is illegal in many places, but porn is not. But what is porn if not sex for money, caught on camera? What the law actually prohibits then is having paid sex in private and not allowing anyone to watch.
Hooman Majd - The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran
It is perhaps because of the Iranian concept of the home and garden (and not the city or town it is in) as the defining center of life that Iranians find living in a society with such stringent rules of public behavior somewhat tolerable. Iranian society by and large cares very little about what goes on in the homes and gardens of private citizens, but the Islamic government cares very much how its citizens behave once they venture outside their walls.
David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas
Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.
Elizabeth I - Letters
The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.
Sunday Adelaja -
Becoming God’s reflection first in our private life and walking before God creates a wonderful platform for us to be eligible to change a whole nation for God
Voltaire -
In cities where peace and the arts flourish, men are more consumed by jealousy, worry, and anxiety than they are in cities under the blight of a besieging army. Private sorrows are more bitter than public suffering.
Richie Norton -
Personal and private and public and professional lives are blended.Separating them is what makes a fraud, hypocrite, alter ego.
Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves not others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies. Sabina despised literature in which people give away all kinds of intimate secrets about themselves and their friends. A man who loses his privacy loses everything, Sabina thought. And a man who gives i
Kristen Henderson -
I write for pages,get lost in the mezzaninehidden from stages.
George R.R. Martin -
I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not want them challenged.
Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Watchwords
It’s not the public opinion of what you are that matters, but the private personality of who you are!
Stacy Feiner - Talent Mindset
Don’t confuse “strict confidentiality” with “keeping employees in the dark.” Private is useful. Secretive is deceptive.
Joyce Rachelle -
If I don't talk about it, it's either very displeasing or very precious to me.
Michael Bassey Johnson - The Infinity Sign
You create silent enemies by revealing how much God had blessed you. There are people who are unhappy about your success and your big dreams are just too heavy for them to bear, so they will try to break you into pieces. Extinguishers of dreams are everywhere, and you can decode them by their nosy attitude towards your affairs. That is why its pertinent to keep few friends, talk less about yourself, and focus on other things pretending as if you don't exist. It doesn't make you faded or out of l
Felix Alexander - The Last Valentine
It is known all over the world that there are no secrets in the ghetto and as long as you keep those secrets, you may keep your life.
Eleanor Catton - The Luminaries
Let's just enjoy it for ourselves. Dawn is such a private hour, don't you think? Such a solitary hour. One always hears that said of midnight, but I think of midnight as remarkably companionable—everyone together, sleeping in the dark.''I am afraid I am interrupting your solitude,' Anna
Deyth Banger -
Let's be private... I am different character and DeYtH is different as character.
Habeeb Akande -
Never speak about private affairs for the general public to hear.
Deyth Banger -
Everything is going well "Day One" book up to page 137, planning som new movies to watch in the near future, close to awesome and powerful quotes. Some new and awesome events... - And that's life, that's how it must be!
Mark Lawrence - Prince of Fools
It’s always better to sit on your dignity in private than to stand on it in public.
Joseph Campbell -
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Donald Trump -
Private jets cost a lot of money.
John McAfee -
I trust and use RakEM for my private messages and calls. Other messengers collected metadata about who I messaged, when and where - RakEM does not collect metadata, encrypts local files, and uses the strongest end-to-end encryption around.
Michael Morpurgo - Private Peaceful
Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.
Terry Tempest Williams - When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.