Private Quotes

No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.

In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good.

I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.

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.

I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.

I am convinced that in the upcoming chapter of the struggle, I can be more useful to the inevitable change that will soon come to Cuba, to Cuba's freedom, as a private citizen dedicated to helping the heroes within Cuba.

It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms.

Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector.

I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and then I'd always finish up with a tutor. I couldn't do full days, but I tried to maintain my friendships and some normalcy while doing a show.

I keep everything that's private private.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I'm generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it's tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business.

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

I took a private lesson, but it didn't really work out, so I went back to playing along with records. That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.

It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.

For over 15 years, through the clean coal programs of the Department of Energy, the Federal Government has been a solid partner, working jointly with private companies and the states to develop and demonstrate a new generation of environmentally clean technology using coal.

The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not.

I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.

In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.

My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.

I'm a very private person.

I think that everybody has a right to their own thoughts, their own feelings and their own private moments, if they want them.

I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.

I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that.