Held Private

Famous quotes containing the words held and/or private:

“For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

“There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)