I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.
I am a private person and that has always been my personality.
I see two opposite tendencies in Turkish society: people feel demoralized, they lose the interest in politics and retreat to their private lives; or they become very angry and even more politicized, and radicalized. Both trends are troublesome.
The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families and of Common-wealths. Almost all Governments have therefore made it a principal Object of their Attention, to establish and endow with proper Revenues, such Seminaries of Learning, as might supply the succeeding Age with Men qualified to serve the Publick with Honour to themselves, and to their Country.
Some animals are secretive; some are shy. A cat is private.
Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.
I went public too soon. Stay private as long as you can.
You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.
I'm as moody and complex and private as anyone I ever knew.
I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
Most people are oblivious to F. A. Hayek's insight that the critical information needed to run an economy - or even 15 percent of one - doesn't exist in any one place where it is accessible to central planners. Instead, it is scattered piecemeal among millions of people. All those people put together are far wiser and better informed than Congress could ever be. Only markets - private property, free exchange and the price system - can put this knowledge at the disposal of entrepreneurs and consumers, ensuring the system will serve the people and not just the political class.
Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.
The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such as private charity, the establishment of schools and hospitals, and the abolition of slavery.
. . . a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.
Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.
It's not a movie, no private screening This method acting, well, I call that living
These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.
I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage.
Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.