Top 630 Private Quotes

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
Maximilien Robespierre
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
Ulysses S. Grant
But I didn’t ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn’t even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.
Carol Burnett
The three top issues have to be restoring jobs and private sector job growth to our country, getting the entitlement mess under control, and restoring back to our country a sense of self-confidence that Americans can achieve whatever we want to achieve.
Chris Christie
I think private school is much better at customer servi

I think private school is much better at customer service and making the parents feel better, especially in Los Angeles. It’s almost like a spa for the parents where you drop your kids off, where they give you a beautifully baked thing and let the parents write their own newsletter about global warming.
Sandra Tsing Loh
The Scouts are a private organization and have every right to set their own membership standards.
John Doolittle
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
Michel de Montaigne
People think because you’re private, you have something you don’t want them to know.
Tom T. Hall
From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the U.S. economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing.
Noam Chomsky
I don’t know why his lawyers didn’t tell him, ‘You don’t have to answer any questions about your private life, Mr. President. Let them sue you. Take the heat. You don’t have to answer.’
Chris Matthews
All my life, people have been telling me what to do. I’m tired of it. My private life has become an industry.
Prince Charles
There are certain things I just don’t talk about – there are certain things that are private.
Peter Andre
I am a very private person. I don’t like to talk about things till someone asks about them.
Alia Bhatt
In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think there’s not much patience for organized labour, period, public or private sector.
Kathleen Wynne
Government can’t create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.
Bill Owens
Once upon a time we did not focus on a president’s private life.
Tom Ford
When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody’s business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
Eartha Kitt
We don’t want to share our personal problems or personal journey, it’s too private – but we should be proud to be carers; it’s hard work, it’s true work, it’s unconditional love.
Aaron Pedersen
Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.
Nancy Gibbs
The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one’s private soul.
Patrick Kavanagh
People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more efficient.
David Rubenstein
Research promoted by NARA within a major coalition of Federal and private sector research partners has at last demonstrated that an Electronic Records Archives can be built.
Allen Weinstein
I think having a private life that you only share with your nearest and dearest is important. Otherwise, who are you?
Jon Hamm
Today, our economy is divided: fifty percent is the public economy and fifty percent is the private economy that includes small companies employing from 4 to 200 workers.
Ibrahim Rugova
Every woman needs a private pin money stash. That is her own personal stash of cash to do with whatever she wants. It gives a woman freedom even if she doesn’t spend it – especially if she doesn’t spend it.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
I will jump on anybody’s private plane at the drop of a hat. I’m an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.
Eric Idle
In ‘Saami,’ I take a poor dhobi’s son for admission to a private school. The principal refuses for various reasons and finally he points to the boy’s bare body. Immediately, I tear the furnishings off the office chair to convert them into clothes for the boy.
Vivek
I’m a fiercely private person in general, and like to keep my personal life personal.
Diana Penty
People think that I don’t work, and I fly around in Oprah’s private plane doing whatever I want.
Gayle King
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Lillian Smith
My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.
David Beckham
When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.
John McGahern
The power of collecting money from the people is not to be rejected because it has sometimes been oppressive. Public credit is as necessary for the prosperity of a nation as private credit is for the support and wealth of a family.
Oliver Ellsworth
Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives; but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.
Ashley Judd
People always seem to be interested in my private life

People always seem to be interested in my private life because I’m married to a pop star.
Jamie Redknapp
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
Barbra Streisand developed overwhelming performance anxiety at the height of her career; for 27 years she refused to perform for the general public, appearing live only in private clubs and at charity events, where she presumably believed the pressure on her was less intense.
Scott Stossel
I’m a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.
Omari Hardwick
The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American, and a threat to every private sector job in this country.
Rick Perry
I got my private pilot’s license in autumn 1986.
Mathias Rust
It’s funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you’re considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don’t last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
Rami Malek
We have a cadre of home-grown cyber-skilled professionals to meet the demands of an increasingly digital world, in the public and private sectors and in defence.
Amber Rudd
Everyone has a private self and a public self.
Kevin Conroy
A princely mind will undo a private family.
George Savile
But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.
Barbara Jordan
After eight months of one of the most intensive public and private investigations in American history, no one – no one – has come up with a shred of evidence that I had anything to do with the anthrax letters. I have never worked with anthrax. I know nothing about this matter.
Steven Hatfill
I’ve had my ups and downs in my private life.
Novak Djokovic
People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.
Paulo Coelho
My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.
Rick Wakeman
Morals are private. Decency is public.
Rita Mae Brown
I don’t want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I’m finished with my term as governor, I’m going back to the life that’s waiting for me in the private sector.
Jesse Ventura
We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.
Donald T. Regan
Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it’s like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools can be selective. It’s not accurate or fair to compare the job they do.
Dennis Moore
Keep your private life private. Be open to suggestions from different people. And just be nice. I have heard stories about people who are just plain rude to the press or fans.
Michelle Trachtenberg
Be it a private event or a college fest or the occasional wedding sangeet, my visits to Noida are frequent.
Neha Kakkar
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
Bernard Baruch
I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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.
Michel de Montaigne
I’m a very private person. I like staying home and doing my stuff. I hate people invading on my privacy. I hate talking about my private life.
Gisele Bundchen
Good economic theory must give the people the chance to use their talents to build their own lives. We must get away from the traditional route where the rich will do the business and the poor will depend on private or public charity.
Muhammad Yunus