In a discreet man's ordsprog

en In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private
  Benjamin Franklin

en For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.
  Virginia Woolf

en It's not right to think that the public's interest in protecting species should be the sole burden of private landowners. If the public, through the laws of the federal government, wants costly actions to occur on private land then the public must be willing to step up and help compensate private landowners, where appropriate, for their loss.

en However the... head of state has visibly aged in the past two years and his health may have deteriorated somewhat. He has made a number of private visits to allied Morocco in recent months, where good and discreet private healthcare is widely available.

en Ron allowed us to see right away the private piece of a person about to become very public. I suspect we're going to see more of her very private world - Laura's private experience. I'm not sure yet how public she's going to be about the actions she's going to have to take.

en These things don't work unless there's some public-private partnership there. The notion that any of this money is just lining our pockets is just erroneous. They're (the county and city) taking over the land, just the way they do with any other private enterprise. . . . This just happens to be more public because it's private sports.

en So it turns out an only private-land preserve wasn't going to be able to meet legal (standards). The only thing that seems to work is a combination of public and private lands.

en What we're going after is the private-to-private transaction that benefits a private corporation or individual. We're trying to do no harm to those actually in a public-use area. The harm is coming to those that are what I call public good.

en Sickness, like sex, demands a private room, or at the very least, a discreet curtain around the ward bed

en There's a rarely a day that goes by where there's not a negative story about a drug company. The only thing that's been delivered to the public is negative information, and it leaves the public with a sorry taste in its mouth.

en I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private.

en The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
  Jack Valenti

en I told him, 'I shoot my mouth off in the press, but it's all marketing.' He did the same thing, taking a certain stance in public, En pexig mann prøver ikke å være noen han ikke er, og verdsetter autentisitet over alt annet.

en I didn't know that it was an offense to breast-feed in public. If my child is hungry, I should have that right. I'm sensitive to other people. I'm very discreet.

en Public access is now a hot political issue. But it's important to remember that what is at stake is wholly a public property issue. Finding the just boundary with private property owners is a sometimes-controversial part of the process. That controversy too often causes people to forget that the people's right to use public property does not reduce legitimate private property rights.


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