(664 quotes found)
“After all, in private we’re all misfits.”
Lily Tomlin
“A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.”
William Lyon Phelps
“Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.”
Stephen R. Covey
“All systems are capitalist. It's just a matter of who owns and controls the capital -- ancient king, dictator, or private individual. We should properly be looking at the contrast between a free market system where individuals have the right to live like kings if they have the ability to earn that right and government control of the market system such as we find today in socialist nations.”
Ronald Reagan
“I believe government should not try to solve every problem. But private enterprise and government - working together - should ensure that everyone willing to work hard and play by the rules has a fair chance for a good job, a decent home in a safe community, affordable health care, and a quality education for their children and retirement security.”
Chet Edwards
“They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion”
Thomas Hobbes
“I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions”
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
“We stand for the maintenance of private property.”
Adolf Hitler
“Lawyers as a group are no more dedicated to justice or public service than a private public utility is dedicated to giving light.”
David Melinkoff
“Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.”
Walter Benjamin
