Quotes with private

  • Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysis tends to judge an investor or his firm on the basis of how the bullish or bearish aspects of the cycle were managed.
  • Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
  • 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.
  • What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.
  • It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
  • Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.
  • The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
  • The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
  • In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
  • The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?
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  • Baldwin Spencer 2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.
    Baldwin Spencer
    Antigua and Barbuda politican and labour leader (1948 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Joseph Addison Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Fred A. Allen It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Callum Keith Rennie Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.
    Callum Keith Rennie
    British-born Canadian actor (1960 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Joseph Addison The post of honor is a private station.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Abraham Lincoln A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general
    Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • C. L. R. James After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • John Updike An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Bidzina Ivanishvili Any private security is a joke in a country where you're up against your own government.
    Bidzina Ivanishvili
    Georgian politician, billionaire businessman and philanthropist (1956 - )
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  • Tristan Tzara 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.
    Tristan Tzara
    Romanian poet and artist (ps. by Sami Rosenstock) (1896 - 1963)
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  • Edgar W. Howe As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Adam Smith As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Italo Calvino Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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