#private

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time. ↗

— Richard Powers

#book #considered #form #head #hearing

I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#easy #guarded #i #keep #life

The most important political office is that of the private citizen. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#citizen #important #most #office #political

I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence. ↗

— Earl Browder

#breaking #cold #cold war #communist #ever

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#exterior #house #interior #outside #part

The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental. ↗

— Garet Garrett

#capitalism #competitive #deal #enmity #enterprise

I had no concerns - I had no reason to have concerns based on what was available to me about North's contacts with the private sector people, but I didn't think a CIA person should do it. ↗

— Robert M. Gates

#available #based #cia #concerns #contacts

As a mom, I always feel I have to protect them. I talk about them because they are the most important things in my life but they are private people. I won't use them for my own press. ↗

— Jami Gertz

#always #because #feel #i #i always

I am basically a private person. ↗

— Imran Khan

#basically #i #i am #person #private

I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children. ↗

— Nicole Kidman

#children #daughter #discuss #feels #i