Publicness vs. privateness is an overly reductive metric to use when talking about reform. ❋ Unknown (2010)
'privateness' with Cobham only concerned business, in which the latter sought to make use of his experience. ❋ Edmund Gosse (1888)
Not least because it can lead to excessive introspection, individuality, and indeed all forms of privateness were perfidious, and so playing hooky could mean jeopardizing your well-being. ❋ ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH (2010)
By depriving you of your privateness, emptying your inner thoughts out into the public square, they save you from implosion, and by dismantling the barrier between you and society, thus assimilating you into one larger whole, they remove the opportunity, and with it the desire, for playing hooky. ❋ ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH (2010)
With the possible exception of Ronald Reagan, whose fabled aloofness and privateness were probably signs of a deep introverted streak (many actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors), introverts are not considered "naturals" in politics. ❋ Unknown (2007)
This almost pathological privateness isn't my natural character, but learned behaviour. ❋ Juliette (2009)
"Austerity Britain" confirms George Orwell's famous remark about the privateness of English life. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither will they, when it were reason; but are impatient of privateness, even in age and sickness, which require the shadow; like old townsmen, that will be still sitting at their street door, though thereby they offer age to scorn. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment, and disposition of business. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Maybe it was that quietness and that privateness that caused all this to bottle up inside of him. ❋ Unknown (2007)
That was part of his privateness because of that midwestern ethic. ❋ Unknown (2006)
And as for the privateness or obscureness (as it may be in vulgar estimation accounted) of life of contemplative men, it is a theme so common to extol a private life, not taxed with sensuality and sloth, in comparison and to the disadvantage of ❋ Unknown (2003)
The derogations therefore which grow to learning from the fortune or condition of learned men, are either in respect of scarcity of means, or in respect of privateness of life and meanness of employments. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The works which concern the seats and places of learning are four — foundations and buildings, endowments with revenues, endowments with franchises and privileges, institutions and ordinances for government — all tending to quietness and privateness of life, and discharge of cares and troubles; much like the stations which Virgil prescribeth for the hiving of bees: — “Principio sedes apibus statioque petenda, Quo neque sit ventis aditus, &c.” ❋ Unknown (2003)
