Private Life Quotes - Page 3

• A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life

  Eric Hoffer

  Passionate, World, Obsession

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• I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall suffer for it... painting is one's private life.

  Edgar Degas

  People, Solitude, Suffering

  Edgar Degas (1963). “Drawings”

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• A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.

  William Penn

  Comfort, Gains, Life Is

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.153

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• I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, Literature, Paid

  "Redemption songs". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

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• People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils from private life; but it seems to me to be always dropping diaphanous but blinding veils between men and men. The Yellow Press is abused for exposing facts which are private; I wish the Yellow Press did anything so valuable. It is exactly the decisive individual touches that it never gives; and a proof of this is that after one has met a man a million times in the newspapers it is always a complete shock and reversal to meet him in real life.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Men, Yellow

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• I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Philosophy, Humble

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.611, Stanford University Press

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• So, Mr. Chadband-of whom the persecutors say that it is no wonder he should go on for any length of time uttering such abominable nonsense, but that the wonder rather is that he should ever leave off, having once the audacity to begin-retires into private life until he invests a little capital of supper in the oil-trade.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Oil, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.161

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• Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

  E. M. Forster

  Love Is, Doe, Affair

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal.

  Susan Sontag

  Funny, Secret, Television

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.178, Macmillan

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• I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Encounters, Distinction

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• [A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Trying, Levels, Should

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• Private lives should be no business of the State. The State is bad enough as it is. It cannot educate or medicate or feed the people; it cannot do anything but kill the people. No State like that do we want prying into our private lives.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Want, Enough

  "The Fantastic Man". Interview with Gert Jonkers. Butt magazine, No. 20, www.buttmagazine.com. July 01, 2007.

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• Private choices are not private; they all have public consequences...Our society is the sum total of what millions of individuals do in their private lives. That sum total of private behavior has worldwide public consequences of enormous magnitude. There are no completely private choices.

  James E. Faust

  Choices, Our Society, Behavior

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• I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.

  Jesse Ventura

  Business, Party, Believe

  Jesse Ventura (2000). “I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up”, p.15, Villard

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• All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Danger, Plans, Has Beens

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• The economy is not removed from the way you live out your private life.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Way, Economy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.

  May Sarton

  Fashion, What Matters, Trying

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.65, Open Road Media

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• It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

  George Washington

  Leadership, Honesty, Individual

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1847). “pt. III. Private letters from the time Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the Army to that of his inauguration as president of the United States: December, 1783-April, 1789”, p.146

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• My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.

  David Beckham

  Motivational, Soccer, Sports

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• You have to fight really hard for a private life, and sometimes you don't have one. It just gets to you after a while. It's tough.

  John Carpenter

  Fighting, Tough, Sometimes

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. April 10, 2011.

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• Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.

  Ann Patchett

  Forever, Littles, Remember

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• Not having a private life is hard.

  Amber Riley

  Life Is Hard, Life Is, Hard

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And in my private life I prefer not to pass myself off as what I'm not (Daniel Brennan)

  Sabrina Jeffries

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• Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between people, and their beliefs - in religion, literature, colleges and schools- democracy in all public and private life.

  Walt Whitman

  Party, Flower, School

  Walt Whitman (2009). “Democratic Vistas: The Original Edition in Facsimile”, p.33, University of Iowa Press

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• I'm not an overly happy person. There are times when I'm happy, and that's usually in my private life.

  Pat Burns

  Happy Person, Persons

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