Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press
The public good is promoted best by people pursuing their own private interests. This bothers some people because they're more concerned with motives than with results.
Today Facebook went public, just as Myspace's last user went private.
The key to living a moral life is this: Do nothing in private that you would be ashamed to discuss openly with your mother.
. . . it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all.
I am not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk and tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction.
Boyfriends have to understand me and my needs. They have to know what I want out of my life and about my strict regime. I go to bed at 10pm and not later. I separate my professional and private lives.
Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system.
One way of building private foresight out of public data is looking where others aren't. . . if you want to see the future, go to an industry confab and get the list of what was talked about. Then ask, "What did people never talk about?" That's where you're going to find opportunity.
I'm a private person so wasn't the type of person who could talk to people and be like this is going on at home, I want this shirt, this girl don't like me, etc. I just rap about it!
What is private and what is discussed behind closed doors, you do not have to be instructed at the age of fifty or sixty or forty or whatever to not talk about it outside.
The Christian Coalition of Alabama will work to ensure that reckless trial lawyers and activist judges will not be able to open the floodgates to increase taxes and that private, Christian, parochial and home-school families will be protected.
Being honest when you're dealing with others is easier to do because your honesty is on the table for all to view. . . Being honest with yourself is more difficult because you only have to justify it in private where no one can see it.
Not having a private life is hard.
Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it practically doesn't have an audience in mind, just the artist's expression.
The Christian life is not just our own private affair. If we have been born again into God's family, not only has he become our Father but every other Christian believer in the world, whatever his nation or denomination, has become our brother or sister in Christ. But it is no good supposing that membership of the universal Church of Christ is enough; we must belong to some local branch of it. Every Christian's place is in a local church. sharing in its worship, its fellowship, and its witness.
[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can call political society. And voluntarily, through the private interaction of individuals and associations - what we can call civil society. . . . In a civil society, you make the decision. In a political society, someone else does. . . . Civil society is based on reason, eloquence, and persuasion, which is to say voluntarism. Political society, on the other hand, is based on force.
Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.
Private enterprise in cricket might not be regarded as the last word, and ultimate state direction would not do it any harm.