Quotes of: Private-world Keyword

It's like marriage. The race there is between total knowledge of each other and death. If death comes first, it's considered a successful marriage.

A Fine and Private Place

Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian majority’s” private liking.

The God Delusion

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.

The Secret Key to Heaven: The Vital Importance of Private Prayer

For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

What laid me low was no mystical vision, no message from God, but a blow of compassion. In a wakeful mind, no force is more terrible, or precious.

A Private History of Awe

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

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

...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

At one time he [Cornelius Vanderbilt] personally controlled some 10 percent of all the money in circulation in the United States.

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

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

You can't control the paparazzi. But if you go to Coachella you're going to get photographed. Whereas if you're at home, walking down the street you probably won't. It's something I've learnt to navigate my way around but I try to keep my private lif...

Ashley Greene

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

Everybody has a public life, and they have their own private life. Everybody has their secrets. Everybody has their own private, you know, agonies as well as joys. And that's what great drama, whether it's the movies or the theater, that's what it sh...

Annette Bening