[T]he strongest defense of the humanities lies not in the appeal to their utility — that literature majors may find good jobs, that theaters may economically revitalize neighborhoods — but rather in the appeal to their defiantly nonutilitarian ch...
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetites, which shake the public with the same —“tro...
Pasha: The private life is dead - for a man with any manhood. Zhivago: I saw some of your 'manhood' on the way at a place called Minsk. Pasha: They were selling horses to the Whites. Zhivago: It seems you've burnt the wrong village. Pasha: They alway...
But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his vi...
My parents are private investigators for God's sake.
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
I don't have the luxury of doing things privately.
I would love to do more private concerts.
Marriage is holy and it's private.
I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
Private companies should be building businesses.
Spiritual matters should be private.
I'm intensely private. I don't like giving interviews.
If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!
Government cannot and must not replace private initiative.
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.
Snapping shut his mobile, Dalgliesh reflected that murder, a unique crime for which no reparation is ever possible, imposes it own compulsions as well as it's conventions. He doubted whether Macklefield [the murder victim's Will attorney] would have ...
Medic Wade: Actually, the trick to falling asleep is trying to stay awake. Mellish: How is that, Wade? Medic Wade: Well, when my mother was an intern, she used to work late through the night... sleep through the day. So the only time we'd ever get to...
