Private Quotes

“Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful

“The exaggerated dopamine sensitivity of the introvert leads one to believe that when in public, introverts, regardless of its validity, often feel to be the center of (unwanted) attention hence rarely craving attention. Extroverts, on the other hand, seem to never get enough attention. So on the flip side it seems as though the introvert is in a sense very external and the extrovert is in a sense very internal - the introvert constantly feels too much 'outerness' while the extrovert doesn't feel enough 'outerness'.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“I was still alive. Ha! Take that kidnappers. Still alive. Maybe it was my butt that was feeding me. I always thought it was kind of round. I bet my body was eating up all the fat stores from my butt now. Yeah. See, having a big ass is a good thing. Good, good, good. They should put that in magazines. Why diet? Why stay thin? If you ever get kidnapped and left for dead, your fat ass could save your life!”
― Kate Brian, Suspicion

“The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.”
― Queen Elizabeth I, The letters of Queen Elizabeth I;

“Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.”
― Mary Balogh, Simply Magic

“If I love you, is that any of your business?”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Leanne, would you kindly remove your nose from my ass? It's starting to chafe." - Noelle”
― Kate Brian, Private

“The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay.”
― Richard Rodriguez

“Social distancing is staying away from people not from your purpose.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Unfortunately, I had a feeling I would never get to my bed as the vacuuming would strike me dead of an aneurysm. Death by Dyson." - Reed”
― Kate Brian, Invitation Only

“Private prayers are as necessary as public prayers.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The more you keep your life private, the more at peace your life will become.”
― Christine E. Szymanski

“One of the hard decisions about being an author is do you reveal your secrets to progress science, or do you stay silent to maintain your private life?”
― Steven Magee

“With my divorce, I had to keep both my grief and relief private. No one, not even my closest family members, could comprehend the complicated feelings that washed over me. No one I knew had experienced this kind of loss.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“The silence was worse this time. On the feed I saw Pin-Lee move uncertainly, glance at Overse and Arada. Ratthi rubbed his face. Then Mensah said quietly, “SecUnit, do you have a name?”
I wasn’t sure what she wanted. “No.”
“It calls itself ‘Murderbot,’” Gurathin said.
I opened my eyes and looked at him; I couldn’t stop myself. From their expressions I knew everything I felt was showing on my face, and I hate that. I grated out, “That was private.”
― Martha Wells, All Systems Red

“The public sphere is becoming more private. Businesses are exerting their influence on traditional, public government functions like never before.”
― Tom C.W. Lin, The Capitalist and the Activist: Corporate Social Activism and the New Business of Change

“Mind and heart remain the most private parts of our body, more private than the ones widely considered private. The thoughts running within those dark alleys are at times even private to the beholder.”
― Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

“Don't believe what people speak to you in private, believe in how people treat you in public.”
― Sonal Takalkar

“Hackers are curse to the society. The people who are stealing your private & financial life are worst than killers.”
― Sonal Takalkar

“It was interesting to watch President Obama launch the Desoto Solar Farm. After the public launch, he disappeared into a private area with the senior company managers.”
― Steven Magee

“Abolition of the public sector means, of course, that all pieces of land, all land areas, including streets and roads, would be owned privately, by individuals, corporations, cooperatives, or any other voluntary groupings of individuals and capital.”
― Murray N. Rothbard, For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto

“Wouldn’t some owners designate red for “stop,” others green or blue, etc.? Wouldn’t some roads be used on the right- hand side and others on the left? Such questions are absurd. Obviously, it would be to the interest of all road owners to have uniform rules in these matters, so that road traffic could mesh smoothly and without difficulty. Any maverick road owner who insisted on a left- hand drive or green for “stop” instead of “go” would soon find himself with numerous accidents, and the disappearance of customers and users.”
― Murray N. Rothbard, For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto

“With the ability to read, however, there developed new patterns of private behavior that were to threaten the legitimacy of both the Church and secular authorities on a permanent basis. Women who learned to read at that time were considered dangerous. For the woman who reads acquires a space to which she and no one else has access, and together with this she develops an independent sense of self-esteem; furthermore, she creates her own view of the world that does not necessarily correspond with that conveyed by tradition, or with that of men. All this does not yet signify the liberation of women from patriarchal guardianship, but it does push open the door that leads to freedom.”
― Stefan Bollmann, Women Who Read Are Dangerous

“If you ever find yourself being abducted from a public area, your life may depend on you shouting as loud as you can before you are taken into a private area.”
― Steven Magee

“Cheaters do not advertise their cheating and are very private about it, so it is always hard to prove it. Most of the time it is happening under the guise of a friend, a friend visiting town, friends from the past, neighborhood friends, vacations with friends, shopping trips, long walks alone, time spent at the gym, coworkers, faking going to work on sick, comp time, or vacation days, company overtime, company emergency, company conferences, and so on.”
― Steven Magee

“Separate bedrooms? Never again!”
― Steven Magee

“Harriet probably only means some things are private."
"You mean secret."
"No, I mean private. For instance, I asked you how old you were and you correctly answered that it was private information. It's not secret; it's just that you don't know me well enough to tell me. But a secret is something we keep because there's a chance that if someone knew our secret, they would use it against us or make us feel bad. Secrets usually involve things we're ashamed of."
"Do you keep secrets?"
"Yes," he admitted. "How about you?"
"Me too," she said.
"I'm pretty sure everyone does," he said. "Especially the people who say they don't. There's no way you go through life without being embarrassed or ashamed about something.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“Life is inherently cruel and deep down we all have to suffer for our fate, suffer in our own, personal and private way. It is however up to us how we carry this burden.”
― Ryan Gelpke, We Tragic Few