Quotes of: Private-life Keyword

Power always and everywhere had had a pernicious, corrupting effect upon men. It "converts a good man in private life to a tyrant in office." It acts upon men like drink: it "is known to be intoxicating in its nature"—"too intoxicating and liable t...

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

We know that to become a Christian we shouldn’t try to fix ourselves up, but when it comes to praying we completely forget that. We’ll sing the old gospel hymn, “Just as I Am,” but when it comes to praying, we don’t come just as we are. We ...

A Praying Life

Sarah Palin appears to have no testable core conviction except the belief (which none of her defenders denies that she holds, or at least has held and not yet repudiated) that the end of days and the Second Coming will occur in her lifetime. This com...

The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens

Misery is a no U-turns, no stopping road. Travel down it pushed by those behind, tripped by those in front. Travel down it at furious speed though the days are mummified in lead. It happens so fast once you get started, there’s no anchor from the r...

Written on the Body

But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the best decisions you can on behalf of your people. It’s a slow process. It often feels hopeless, more like an afflict...

Steve Almond

sufferers of depression, who can elect to keep their feelings private, experience chronic, unremitting emotional alienation. Each moment spent “passing” as normal deepens the sense of disconnection generated by depression in the first instance. I...

David Karp

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

Terry Eagleton

privation is the cause of appetite

Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz: Selected Writings

There are certain things I just don't talk about - there are certain things that are private.

Peter Andre

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Publilius Syrus

The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Rob Lowe

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.

Lady Gaga

Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.

Lance Loud

There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet.

Liev Schreiber

I've had a private pilot's license for years and flown all round the U.K. and over to France.

Michael Gambon

Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.

Neil Abercrombie

A movie set or any set is a completely private place and it feels very insulated.

Noah Emmerich

It's so sad to see how few people in the Obama administration have any private sector experience.

Foster Friess

The beauty of being a musician is writing songs. That's the best part. It's therapeutic and honest and private.

Gin Wigmore

The question arises whether private companies can bear responsibility when considering the large risks involved with nuclear business.

Naoto Kan