Quotes of: Private-citizen Keyword

But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.

Janice Dickinson

I don't think anybody can claim success at any part of our lives, private or professional, if there are others that don't enjoy the same opportunities.

Jose Andres Puerta

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.

C. Wright Mills

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

Virginia Woolf

Nothing beats a private visit to Number Ten or Chequers to take the wind out of rebellious sails.

Andy Coulson

The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.

Buzz Aldrin

I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text.

Life

People think that I don't work, and I fly around in Oprah's private plane doing whatever I want.

Gayle King

It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.

Kirsten Dunst

I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.

Trevor Nunn

I think that in itself, if you're a true golfer, you'll see specific things you need to work on. Much cheaper than private lessons.

Tiger Woods

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

Elizabeth Bowen

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Dear and Glorious Physician

Every nation can harness the energy of its citizens, either towards constructive work to generate optimism and hope, or towards tensions, unrest and war.

Flashes of Thought

Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

House Corrino

Whenever a government feels the need of promising peace and prosperity to its citizens by means of a proclamation, it is time to be on guard and expect the opposite.

The Bridge on the Drina

A brick could be used to raise your status as an upstanding citizen. Don’t get too excited, though. It’ll only raise you up about three inches. 

Brick

By requiring all 30 million Americans age 18 to 25 to perform two years of national service, in the military or civilian life, we will be asking for a shared sacrifice from all American citizens.

Charles B. Rangel

Here's a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a citizen until age 18, at which time each such resident has to take a test.

Eric Liu

I do think that books, good books, free you. They make you feel a citizen of the world and things like class, sex and age don't matter. They're the greatest leveler.

Sue Townsend

With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to see, even though it can be seen by other people all over the world. I suppose you could call it a political statement...

Todd Solondz