Top 630 Private Quotes

There are several revenue streams that are near and present that could support a private space station, including in-space manufacturing, microgravity research, and tourism – for both individuals and sovereign nation astronauts – and in-space supply logistics.
Dylan Taylor
There are certain things about me that I will never tell to anyone because I am a very private person. But basically, what you see is who I am. I’m independent, I do like to be liked, I do look for the good side of life and people. I’m positive, I’m disciplined, I like my life in order, and I’m neat as a pin.
Mary Tyler Moore
Up until the 1960s, women would meet designers in their private ateliers, and together they would build a relationship and a wardrobe. Then, all of a sudden, designers disappeared into their own private bubble, and there was no communication.
Edgardo Osorio
A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
Abraham Lincoln
SpaceX has reopened the cosmos, and the space race is back on, only this time it is in the private sector.
Timothy C. Draper
Our learning ought to be our lives’ amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.
Thomas Nashe
Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide.
E. F. Benson
If we can’t have exchanges with our friends and family, with loved ones that won’t at some point be made public, then we can’t have private lives. And if we can’t have private lives, then we’re not really free people.
Timothy D. Snyder
I imagine I appear very outgoing, and I do enjoy people and parties and being involved in life. I am also a very private person, and I value my quiet time. I think people assume I am just a party animal, and in truth, I need to recharge my battery just like everyone else.
Ron Ben-Israel
It doesn’t bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn’t bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent.
Shakira
If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.
Martin Van Buren
Car-essential is a real turn-off to me, so yeah, I just want a friendly holiday resort with a villa and a pool, but which is really private, but there again, there’s a supermarket and a doctor’s and a beach a five-minute walk away. That’s all I want, and it’s quite difficult to find.
Robert Webb
I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore – it was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
Al Franken
Private funding was one of the first methods used when MIT funded Bitcoin core developers Gavin Andresen, Wladimir van der Laan, and Cory Fields in 2015.
Fred Ehrsam
Nouns are seldom improved by the modifier ‘public.’ Few of us, given a private alternative, prefer public restrooms or public transportation or public displays of affection.
Steve Rushin
My home studio is my private instrument for me only. It

My home studio is my private instrument for me only. It’s not intended to record anyone but me.
Billy Sheehan
Art shouldn’t be prohibited in public schools when kids in private schools always get it.
Agnes Gund
Lots of people juggle a lot of things in their personal and private lives, and I’m not unusual in that. Plenty of women have multitasked before me, and I want to acknowledge that.
Jacinda Ardern
By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we’re going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell.
Robert Wilson
I literally have a private jet on call at all times.
The Miz
I’ve probably done more venture capital deals and expansion financings than I have done private equity deals. But both are the same. Private equity companies have also built jobs.
Stephen Pagliuca
Some billionaires like cars, yachts and private jets. Others like newspapers.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors.
John Sergeant Wise
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.
Milton Friedman
I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.
Wendell Willkie
I’m angry that the private sector, which is supposed to be in charge of running gasoline into the Valley, doesn’t have its act together to deal with a critical situation, so now the public sector has to step in.
Janet Napolitano
But on the other hand I believe I’m a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.
Beau Bridges
My sister’s great. She’s very bright; she’s very private.
Carrie Brownstein
The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.
Lucian Freud
At home, I am a private person, and I like keeping it that way. Maybe that is why I come out as being guarded about my personal life.
Sidharth Malhotra
The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money.
Linda Chavez
I am very fortunate I can send my kids to private school, but everybody does not have the money. If you cannot get your kid in a good school today, your kids are going to be behind the eight ball.
Spike Lee
My private life is my own business.
Roddy Llewellyn
Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
I’m as moody and complex and private as anyone I ever knew.
Ryan O’Neal
I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.
Benjamin Franklin
The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.
Lee H. Hamilton
Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.
Adrian Edmondson
I had a hard time going back to school after T2. I really didn’t want to go to private school.
Edward Furlong
On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I’m not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.
Eberhard Weber
You know, it doesn’t take a genius in the private sector to know that you can save literally hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending if you can make it more responsive. That’s the main job.
Darrell Issa
Apple chief executive Tim Cook is such a respected figure that it’s easy to overlook the basic problem with his argument about encryption: Cook is asserting that a private company and the interests of its customers should prevail over the public’s interest as expressed by our courts.
David Ignatius
I’ve learned that social media and our private lives, you know, our private lives are not so private anymore, so it takes a little bit of getting used to.
Jeremy Lin
Our private property must be sacrificed.
Dolley Madison
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
Rosalind Russell
To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.
Louis D. Brandeis
If I had my way, I wouldn't be sharing my personal life

If I had my way, I wouldn’t be sharing my personal life online. I’m a private person. At home, I don’t wander around shirtless, flexing my muscles. I roam around unshaven, with my hair disheveled. Unfortunately, people perceive you differently. It’s okay; they’re free to speculate.
Karan Singh Grover
I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.
Joseph Heller
I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.
Stuart Symington
To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.
Edward M. Purcell
My dream, dream acquisition would probably be a Twombly chalkboard. I’ve been fortunate to see one or two in a private context, and I think it’s just sort of quintessentially brilliant, timeless, modern.
Alexander Gilkes
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
T. S. Eliot
Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one’s conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones.
J. G. Ballard
The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for the predation of private property; it renders certain, secure, and relatively ‘peaceful’ the lifeline of the parasitic caste in society.
Murray Rothbard
When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.
Stephen Curry
Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.
Kenneth Tynan