Quotes About Privacy

That was her way. She carried not noticing to an extreme. Not noticing, not intruding, not suggesting.

hector him like this from now on, when I could get him alone.

These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors. She kept an honor code with her journals and her poems. 'Inside, inside,' she would whisper quietly to herself when she felt the urge to tell...

She could shut out the whole world, including herself.

They were all things she would not give away in New York, where she watched others tell their drunken bar stories, prostituting their families and their trauma for popularity and booze. These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors.

Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was an immaculate anonymity.

And when they spy on us let them discover us loving

It is as if my self is hiding behind an iron door.

Halle thinks your imagination is something you can put on like a jacket or pick up like a spoon—but Sam's imagination is private! You don't use your actual imagination for homework. It's like telling wishes.

There is a lot to be said for living an unobserved life.

I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don't dare to let out.

But the heaviest things, I think, are the secrets. They can drown you if you let them.

There are some things that a woman knows that she cannot tell even her family. It is part intuition and part self-preservation.

CONFIDANT, CONFIDANTE, n. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B, confided by him to C.

Conscience can be painful but so can the cock-rot. A grown-up should suffer his afflictions privately and not allow them to become an inconvenience for friends and colleagues.' - The Magnificent Nicomo Cosca

Supercookies are legal, but I don't think they should be.

I remember an era when you could get your nose sliced off for sticking it too far into another man's business. Now you can find out anything about anyone with the click of a button. There is no privacy and no consideration, and everyone is prying into things that aren't their affair. You can probably check on the intertube and find out what color underwear I have on today.

The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.

Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have vision problems, or who like to read on the subway, or who do not want other people to see how they are amusing themselves, or who have storage and clutter issues, but they are useless for people who are engaged in an intense, lifelong love affair with books. Books that we can touch; books that we can smell; books that we can depend on.

Families is like windows with curtains. Some folks keep the curtains pulled back. Most open and close them from time to time, and some don't ever pull them back and you don't never get no look inside.

I really feel like it's a travesty to make a child famous. I really do.

Suburbia, triumphant in the world's leading economy, also swept successfully through virtually every part of the advanced industrial world. Compared with the option of living closely packed in apartment complexes, most human beings seemed to define their personal "better city" as a little more space and privacy, and perhaps even a spot of lawn.

What I like best about this is not seeing you naked, love," Marcus said. He began to massage the bar of soap in the washcloth, creating a rich lather. "Though you are quite beautiful. What I like is knowing Josh is kneeling here beside you and cannot see you.

The truth is creepier. It's not that they are listening and then they can do targeted ad serving. It's that their model of you is so accurate that it's making predictions about you that you think are magic.