Quotes of: Privatize Keyword

A child is asleep. Her private life unwinds inside skin and skull; only as she sheds childhood, first one decade and then another, can she locate the actual, historical stream, see the setting of her dreaming private life—the nation, the city, the ...

An American Childhood

He had crossed the room with no notion what he might say or do - he had no knowledge of the language of condolence, no skill at social small talk; his metier was business and politics. And yet, when his hostess had introduced them and left, he found ...

Lord John and the Private Matter

É uma história de amor, nada muito especial: duas pessoas constroem, com vontade e inocência, um mundo paralelo que, naturalmente, bem rápido desmorona. É a história de um amor medíocre, juvenil, na qual reconhece sua classe: apartamentos exí...

The Private Lives of Trees

To commit herself to becoming "an apostle of Joy" when humanly speaking she might have felt at the brink of despair, was heroic indeed. She could do so because her joy was rooted in the certitude of the ultimate goodness of God's loving plan for her....

Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the "Saint of Calcutta"

Victorian rigidities were such that ladies were not even allowed to blow out candles in mixed company, as that required them to pucker their lips suggestively. They could not say that they were going "to bed"--that planted too stimulating an image--b...

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Because bread was so important, the laws governing its purity were strict and the punishment severe. A baker who cheated his customers could be fined £10 per loaf sold, or made to do a month's hard labor in prison. For a time, transportation to Aust...

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Someone should write an erudite essay on the moral, physical, and esthetic effect of the Model T Ford on the American nation. Two generations of Americans knew more about the Ford coil than the clitoris, about the planetary system of gears than the s...

John Steinbeck

Captain Miller: Sometimes I wonder if I've changed so much, my wife is even gonna recognize me whenever it is I get back to her, and how I'll ever be able to, tell about days like today. Ahh, Ryan. I don't know anything about Ryan, I don't care. The ...

Saving Private Ryan

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