Quotes About Keeping Some Things Private

#1. I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Oscar Wilde

#2. Full citizenship was, and to a large degree still is, predicated on keeping 'unacceptable' behavior private. This complicated relationship between the public and private is at the heart of LGBT history and life today.

Michael Bronski

#3. Don't confuse "strict confidentiality" with "keeping employees in the dark." Private is useful. Secretive is deceptive.

Stacy Feiner

#4. I met some fans who said, 'Please start Twittering!' They even walked me through it, but I'm terrible at it. I'm so bad at keeping it up. I forget how to use it. And I'm not very savvy: I try to send a private message, and it goes out to everybody.

Jim Parrack

#5. When I'm on a plane, people know where I'm going before I even know where I'm going. People know where you had lunch yesterday, or who you had lunch with. So, trying to avoid sharing everything with everyone is my way of keeping something private in my life.

Alexander Skarsgard

#6. I am of mixed minds about the issue of privacy. On one hand, I understand that information is power, and power is, well, power, so keeping your private information to yourself is essential - especially if you are a controversial figure, a celebrity, or a dissident.

Susan Orlean

#7. When you get older, keeping the private stuff private seems less important.

Lawrence Block

#8. Keeping a private guard this large is like using a wolf to guard the farm. It may keep off the other wolves, but sooner or later it will eat you.

Megan Whalen Turner

#9. The great thing about it is, in Hollywood, certain people are very good at keeping their lives and who they are very private. I've never met anybody as down to earth and cool in Hollywood than Matt Damon.

Anthony Mackie

#10. Without the principle of private property there would be no reason for government, which is necessary solely for the purpose of keeping the disinherited within bounds in their quarrels or in their rebellions against those who hold the social wealth

Ricardo Flores Magon

#11. The reason why I've been keeping private for the longest time ever here, I've always wanted to protect my wife's privacy. I don't like - I didn't want to put her picture all over the news. I just wanted to keep her private.

Michael Schiavo

#12. That seemed to be, if anything, the power of writing - to hold sway over memory, making it public, keeping it private, possibly, even, keeping it secret from oneself -

Samuel R. Delany

#13. I didn't use to think anything was worth keeping private. Now I do.

Christina Ricci

#14. Fie on it! Cowardice is worse than death!

E.D.E.N. Southworth

#15. County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties.

Arthur Capper

#16. I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

#17. Having a strong urge is like having a child throw a temper tantrum inside you, screaming "Hurt yourself!" But if you repeatedly ignore the urge's request and don't harm yourself, your brain will learn that urges don't work, just as a child learns that throwing a tantrum won't work.

Kim L. Gratz

#18. For now, what things have you done that you prefer to keep private? What things in your life do you insist on keeping secret? That's where we will find the shame that is attached to what we do.

Edward T. Welch

#19. Junk bonds are the Holy Grail for hostile takeovers.

Roger Miller

#20. I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don't prefer to talk about my family.

Luis Miguel

#21. In fact, the private sector is improving their algorithmic ability to search through big data month after month after month. And, of course, a big government bureaucracy isn't keeping up.

Carly Fiorina

#22. People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#23. And it was young men in red cars who were the most dangerous of all. Such people were best given a wide berth, both in and out of the car.

Alexander McCall Smith

#24. Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who claims to speak for the 'hood don't need no private jet.

Chuck D

#25. Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much.

Donatella Versace

#26. I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.

William Wilberforce

#27. The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech ... As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to be sincere ... When it begins to exist in others it ceases to live in us, just as the child severs itself from its mother when it enters into its own existence.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#28. Married men get so they make a routine even of keeping a mistress

Erle Stanley Gardner

#29. I made the Cowardly Lion look like the terminator.

Stephenie Meyer

#30. Keeping your private life as private as possible is the smartest thing.

Kate Mara

#31. Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries.

Jon Pareles

#32. The universe is not fair and it is never going to be fair.

Daniel Keys Moran

#33. Those who solely by good fortune become princes from being private citizens have little trouble in rising, but much in keeping atop; they have not any difficulties on the way up because they fly, but they have many when they reach the summit.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#34. It's just keeping what I want private, private, and the same with Charlie.

Denise Richards