Quotes About Privately

#1. As I got older, I would study privately with some coaches. Then I found Lee Strasberg, which I loved.

Daniella Alonso

#2. It's one thing to be a high achiever; it's quite another to privately sneer at your girlfriend's friends after feigning friendliness because they have the "misfortune" to drive a bus for a living.

Mallory Ortberg

#3. Privately he called them a couple of puffed-up, dressed-up, made-up, stuck-up, brainless parakeets.

Shirley Hughes

#4. Privately, I consider religion to be a load of bollocks, but when you have a sobbing five year old wanting to know what happened to her hamster, you develop an instant belief in anything that dissolves some of the heartbreak off her face.

Tana French

#5. I've been trying to challenge myself to be more explicit. I've always liked punk rock and Sonic Youth. I make that music privately, but I've never released it.

Sufjan Stevens

#6. Work can only be universal if it is rooted in a part of its creator which is most privately and particularly himself.

Tyrone Guthrie

#7. What I do for a living means that people look at me. As an actress, you are scrutinized. You are not just dealing with your looks privately, you are on display. I have never been 100 percent comfortable in my own skin. I go through different phases. But I don't feel beautiful all the time, no.

Sophia Myles

#8. To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.

Josh Billings

#9. I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.

Aida Turturro

#10. I would love to fly privately, but unfortunately, I don't. I don't summer anywhere either.

Christina Ricci

#11. More likely they'd already been identified by the transponder code required on all privately owned vehicles. They were as good as dead.
"Hold on," Win said. "I know how to lose these guys."
With that he set him mouth in a grim line and banked sharply toward the canyon.

Marcha A. Fox

#12. You shouldn't have forged my handwriting," I said to Laura privately. "I couldn't forge Richard's. It's too different from ours. Yours was a lot easier." "Handwriting is a personal thing. It's like stealing.

Margaret Atwood

#13. he gained a real pleasure in befriending a man whom he privately had cause to despise, for he liked very much the feeling that his regard for others was a private font, a well, that he could muddy, or drink from, at his own discreet pleasure, and on his own time.

Eleanor Catton

#14. Oh, she was a crazy woman, privately.

Elizabeth Strout

#15. What do you privately consult about?"
Haunted houses, exorcisms, that sort of thing," he answered.
Wow. You're like-"
Don't say it."
-Giles from Buffy."
He rolled his eyes. "If I had a quarter for every time someone said
that.

Rhiannon Frater

#16. I don't live lavishly, so it's not like I have 20 assistants and travel privately and shop every day.

Mila Kunis

#17. people can be what they like and feel what they like and do what they like, strictly privately, so long as they keep the FORM of life intact, and the apparatus.' Connie

D.H. Lawrence

#18. Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned

Ayn Rand

#19. When I look at great singers like Sinatra, Bennett and (Tom) Jones, I see great performers that can really move an audience. I really consider myself a troubadour privately and a song-plugger publicly.

Tiny Tim

#20. I felt really compromised. I think legal marriage is unnecessary and I would not have formalised the relationship [with husband Peter Davis] except for going into Parliament. I have always railed against it privately.

Helen Clark

#21. She was a Privately funded spy ship owned by the corporation and headed by Juan Cabtillo. The Oregon was his brain child and his one true love.

Clive Cussler

#22. The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

Buchi Emecheta

#23. Happiness is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated , and defended privately by each person.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#24. As I go across the country and privately visit women's shelters and counselling centres, I am appalled that the most vulnerable people in our society are still women.

Adrienne Clarkson

#25. The Arab view that someone should bomb Iran and stop it from developing nuclear weapons is familiar to anyone who meets privately with Arab leaders, especially in the Gulf.

Elliott Abrams

#26. The wealthy have installed their slaves in the highest spheres of the state. The banks are privately owned. They are concerned solely with profits. They have no interest in the common good.

Stephane Hessel

#27. Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.

Lionel Blue

#28. A few people have privately voiced fears that on coming back to office I shall go after them. These fears are groundless. There will be no paying off old scores. The past is prologue.

Muhammadu Buhari

#29. Be the same person privately, publically and personally.

Judah Smith

#30. When I'm dining out privately, I tend to avoid fine-dining venues; I like things to feel casual.

Nobu Matsuhisa

#31. Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin.

Mona Simpson

#32. We do not always proclaim loudly the most important thing we have to say. Nor do we always privately share it with those closest to us, our intimate friends, those who have been most devotedly ready to receive our confession.

Walter Benjamin

#33. Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated, shredded, and boiled down, it is mind-easing and mind-inspiring to sit down privately with a congenial book ...

Thomas S. Monson

#34. If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do - perhaps above all we need a revival of the small-town civility of the nineteenth century. Manners, not devices: sometimes it's just better not to ask, and better not to look.

James Gleick

#35. The political objective of universal capitalism is maximum individual autonomy, the separation of political power wielded by the holders of public office from economic power held by citizens, and the broad diffusion of privately owned economic power.

Louis O. Kelso

#36. I will tell you privately it's not going to get better, it's going to get worse all the time, but don't fret. Remember, we play the ball where it lies, and now let's not talk about this, ever again.

Bobby Jones

#37. The denial of the popular will, Jefferson said privately, "opens upon us an abyss at which every sincere patriot must shudder."15

Jon Meacham

#38. Those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say, Napoleonic times.

Kurt Vonnegut

#39. By privately endorsing Seward's spirit of compromise while projecting an unyielding public image, President-elect Lincoln retained an astonishing degree of control over an increasingly chaotic and potentially devastating situation.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#40. A certain shame or bashfulness attached itself to whatever one deeply and privately enjoyed.

C.S. Lewis

#41. LET us twain walk aside from the rest;
Now we are together privately, do you discard ceremony,
Come! vouchsafe to me what has yet been vouchsafed to none - Tell me the whole story,
Tell me what you would not tell your brother, wife, husband, or physician.

Walt Whitman

#42. I support Planned Parenthood privately with my personal contribution, and that should be the goal of any such agency, to find private donations.

Chris Christie

#43. [Henry James] privately characterized Roosevelt as "a dangerous and ominous jingo," and "the mere monstrous embodiment of unprecedented and resounding Noise.

Edmund Morris

#44. These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.

Mel Brooks

#45. Reprove thy friend privately: commend him publicly.

Solon

#46. I do not believe there is a long-term future for the privately rented sector in its present form.

Anthony Crosland

#47. Publicly, we're saying we're better at fighting terrorism. Privately, we know that the bureaucracy has only gotten worse, since the high-level people are scared of being held responsible for 9/11.

David Hunt

#48. The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.

Theodor Herzl

#49. I'm very active in pushing for net neutrality and an open Internet. There are countless other causes I support personally and privately, but I try to keep my public activism fairly focused.

Damian Kulash

#50. Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.

Dalton Trumbo

#51. Love without clinging, cry if you must, but privately cry, the heart will adjust.

Ruth Graham

#52. Sara saw that privately she could not help hoping very much that they would all be black, and would wear turbans,

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#53. Privately, however, He would explain everything to His own disciples.

Anonymous

#54. I did what you would probably have done in my place. I modestly declared myself to be quite unequal to the task imposed upon me - and I privately felt, all the time, that I was quite clever enough to perform it.

Wilkie Collins

#55. He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency.

Lee R. Raymond

#56. I've always been incredibly proud of both of my parents and proud of the work I had done privately as a person, professionally and academically.

Chelsea Clinton

#57. I live in Brick Towers, a public housing project in Newark's Central Ward. I moved in when the projects were privately owned by a man who the residents and I believed was a grade A slumlord.

Cory Booker

#58. Both fact and logic seem to me to support the view that savings invested in privately owned economic tools of production amount to an act of charity. And further, I believe it to be - as a type - the greatest economic charity of all.

F. A. Harper

#59. Loyalty publicly results in leverage privately.

Andy Stanley

#60. We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it.

Lynne Truss

#61. Menstrual blood is the only source of blood that is not traumatically induced. Yet in modern society, this is the most hidden blood, the one so rarely spoken of and almost never seen, except privately by women ...

Judy Grahn

#62. Publicly inconsolable about the fact that racism continues, these activists seem privately terrified that it has abated.

Dinesh D'Souza

#63. There's something about comedy, funny things, that people want to pass them along. Serious things and personal things are much more privately enjoyed. That's why there are not a lot of sad viral videos.

Jonathan Coulton

#64. I support the rights of all people to practice their religious beliefs privately, but I oppose the idea of respecting religions. In truth, I have no respect for any religion. I believe religion is not compatible with human rights, women's rights, or freedom of expression.

Taslima Nasrin

#65. The man who tries to find out what has been said against him, who seeks to unearth spiteful gossip, even when engaged in privately, is destroying his own peace of mind.

Seneca.

#66. Donald and I still really wanted to be together, but I was fighting to keep what we had privately, and once the world gets involved in your life, little by little it breaks it down until you forget what it was in the first place.

Marla Maples

#67. Right. So you haven't been spending every spare hour round at geeky and slaphead's, then?"
"Don't call them that. They have names." Although privately I had my own names for them: octopus and trouser python.

Josephine Myles

#68. I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read.

Mary Oliver

#69. In Delhi, politicians and intellectuals privately bemoaned the "irrationality" of the uneducated Indian masses, but when the government itself provided false answers to its citizens' urgent concerns, rumor and conspiracy took wing. Sometimes, the conspiracies became a consolation for loss.

Katherine Boo

#70. The power of radio is not that it speaks to millions, but that it speaks intimately and privately to each one of those millions.

Hallie Flanagan

#71. Privately, I felt that living in that privileged environment, where her emotions ran unchecked, had made her oversensitive and unstable.

Minae Mizumura

#72. The key point about a demonstration is that it must be seen. Hence the term "demonstration." If a person demonstrates privately in his own home, this is not technically a demonstration but merely "acting silly" or "behaving like an ass.

Woody Allen

#73. Help publicly. Help privately. Help make sense where sense has gone missing. Help science to solve and faith to soothe. Help, and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.

Tom Hanks

#74. I only ever privately tell people stuff for the scene. And I often ask what they feel is right. Normally, by the time that we're filming, if it doesn't work, it always the script.

Richard Ayoade

#75. There is who loves you quietly, and respects you quietly, and wishes you privately, and walks away when he sees you busy with someone other than him, and his ego restrains him from getting near you, and contents himself with the love for the sake of love

Nizar Qabbani

#76. I'm not a natural employer. I live very privately, and we like our privacy at home. To be sitting and talking with your wife or your family and to have somebody walking around and you're ignoring them, I couldn't handle that at all. I can barely handle a cleaning lady coming in every so often.

Jim Carter

#77. When I first made photographs, they were too plain to be considered art and I wasn't considered an artist. I didn't get any attention at all. The people who looked at my work thought, well, that's just a snapshot of the backyard. Privately I knew otherwise and through stubbornness stayed with it ...

Walker Evans

#78. I didn't think of what I was doing as political. To me it was a way to make the best out of what I liked to do privately, which was to dress up.

Cindy Sherman

#79. The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.

Donald Rumsfeld

#80. Through it all, despite it all, Eddie privately adored his old man, because sons will adore their fathers through even the worst behavior. It is how they learn devotion. Before he can devote himself to God or a woman, a boy will devote himself to his father, even foolishly, even beyond explanation.

Mitch Albom

#81. End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you'. Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.

Mark Victor Hansen

#82. Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.

James Baker

#83. I don't have the luxury of doing things privately.

Chaz Bono

#84. I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it.

Tom Glazer

#85. If you let people own their land, they take care of it. That's why privately owned land is always taken care of, and the parks look like cesspools. Nobody takes care of what everybody owns.

Grover Norquist

#86. The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low, so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately.

Jonathan Kozol

#87. We are all privately agreed that it is better in books

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#88. The current demand for marijuana and pornography is deeply revealing. Here are two commodities that Americans publicly abhor, privately adore, and buy in astonishing amounts.

Eric Schlosser

#89. The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.

Beatrice Lillie

#90. He answers privately, reaches my reaching. In my Gethsemane, Savior and Friend.

Emma Lou Warner Thayne

#91. I am a deeply spiritual and religious person both privately and publicly.

Lynsi Torres

#92. A good rule, for this job and many others: give praise publicly and criticism privately. The

Jonathan Kern

#93. He had no idea that the world was entering an economic depression, or that hard times bring recriminations and blame. Privately, Harry's parents worried not just about the economy, but about the rising tide of nationalism and anti- Semitism.

Robert M. Edsel

#94. Conservatives: Self-hating moral relativists, unless you can convince me that an intellectual class that publicly praises family values but privately engages in sodomy, coke and trophy wives is more aptly described in some other way.

John Scalzi

#95. You look at what happened with Chrysler, it went through that bankruptcy, and it's re-emerged in a much different fashion, privately held in some of those things, and it's really putting out a great product.

Bill Huizenga

#96. Before the current decade ends, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing suborbital flights aboard privately funded vehicles ... It won't be too long before bright young men and women set their eyes on careers in Earth orbit and say: "I want to work 200 kilometers from home-straight up!"

Arthur C. Clarke

#97. The hypocrisy of human interaction, wherein selflessness was publicly championed and selfishness privately pursued, both amused and disgusted him. Every act of kindness seemed, to him, to be performed only with an eye to the payback that might one day be extracted from the recipient.

Dean Koontz

#98. I thought privately to myself that with so many omens and prophecies to warn them off, heroes were really awfully stupid to go wandering into dark caves.

Moira Katson

#99. Don't expect wisdom to come into your life like great chunks of rock on a conveyor belt. Wisdom comes privately from God as a byproduct of right decisions, godly reactions, and the application of spiritual principles to daily circumstances.

Charles R. Swindoll

#100. The fortress of books. And I think, privately, of the Three Little Pigs. I wonder if we are the big who built his house out of books and words and thoughts. What happens when the Big Bad Wolf arrives there? Does the house hold up? Or does it all fall down?

Andrea Cremer