Quotes of: Private-life Keyword

Even the disciples, who at times could be dense as bricks, realized that the true neighbor was the one who showed mercy to a stranger.

A Private History of Awe

What's remarkable about old age is not that we wear out but that we last so long in the grip of gravity.

A Private History of Awe

True love is loving yourself thoroughly so that you can love another unconditionally.

The Private Emotions Trilogy Romance Novels

Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

We are all subjected to two distinct natures in the same person. I myself have suffered grievously in that way.

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

Writings: Autobiography/Notes on the State of Virginia/Public & Private Papers/Addresses/Letters

I've probably done more venture capital deals and expansion financings than I have done private equity deals. But both are the same. Private equity companies have also built jobs.

Stephen Pagliuca

Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that are rolled into a single entity, eliminating duplicative overh...

Matt Taibbi

If you work for the federal government, the average salary is $7,000 higher than the private sector. Something's wrong with that, when you're making more money working for the government than you can working in the private sector.

Jesse Ventura

Absolutely, federal health care options in Congress should mirror those offered in the private sector. If these options are not available in the private sector, then folks working for the federal government should not have them either.

Rob Woodall

I probably wouldn't be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I'll still get on a private jet, and one flight on a private jet undoes all my electric-car good deeds.

George Clooney

I mean, I'd love to have a private jet - I know people who fly by private jet all the time... I've hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all; it's a great way to travel!

Marc Jacobs

The president and Republicans in Congress have repeatedly promised to revisit Social Security privatization after November. But Americans have already said, loud and clear, that they don't want Social Security to be privatized or dismantled.

Jim Clyburn

If I care about poverty, I have to care a lot about investments in the private sector. The private sector creates the vast majority of jobs in the world, and social protection only goes so far.

Jim Yong Kim

I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.

Shimon Peres

Private Joker: Leonard, if Hartman comes in here and catches us, we'll both be in a world of shit. Private Gomer Pyle: I *am*... in a world... of shit.

Full Metal Jacket

Private Joker: I wanna slip my tube steak into your sister. What'll you take in trade? Private Cowboy: What do you got?

Full Metal Jacket

Private Eightball: Oh, sheeit! [laughs] Private Eightball: This baby-san looks like she can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch.

Full Metal Jacket

[the recruits have administered a "sock party" beating on Private Pyle] Private Cowboy: Remember, this was all just a bad dream, fat boy!

Full Metal Jacket

Kliest: [in German; subtitled] Mein Führer, do you still wish to see Private Butz? Adolf Hitler: [in German] Who and what is a "Private Butz"?

Inglourious Basterds