Quotes About Privacy

Everything that's important goes on in the darkness, no doubt about it. We never know anyone's real inside story.

At a certain age, especially after certain hardships, you only want one thing: to be left alone! ...or better still, you'd like people to think you're dead! in a recent poll on 'what the young people think', they all thought I was dead... died in the Greenland! Not bad!

I couldn't talk of them to everybody—their memories are too sacred for that

If you have a room which you do not want certain people to get into, put a lock on it for which they do not have the key. But there is no point in talking to them about it, unless of course you want them to admire the room from outside! The honorable thing to do is put a lock on the door which will be noticed only by those who can open it, not by the rest.

But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.

Let God leave us! Let us grow up. Let us walk forward on our own. Because we need the silence of the holy: we need the sacred and equally we need its maddening silence. And in the curious privacy and relief of that silence we can go out into the chaos and commit a thousand acts of minor and gleeful splendor all our own. If it's our tragedy to be left by God, then let it also be our luck.

She took full advantage of the ever-widening definition of woman's place and spent much of her life making sure it was everywhere. That she could not, or would not openly identify herself as a gay woman, reflects not only her intense need for privacy, but the shame and fear that an intolerant society can inflict even on its heroes.

You could hear us? Christiana asked with horror. I'm sure the whole house can hear you, she said dryly. He roars like a lion, and you squeal like a stuck pig.

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

Mas o amor tem o grande inconveniente de não guardar a discrição necessária para que os estranhos não percebam. Quando dois olhares andam a falar entre si todo o mundo fica aniquilado para os olhos que os desferem; parece-lhes que têm o direito e a necessidade de viverem de si e por si.

The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books, Miranda said. It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed.

As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.)

I took Amy's advice and resisted the urge to start snooping around in Nurse Boobsalot's life beyond my earlier cursory and unsuccessful internet search.

Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are.

Anyone who has ever scanned the bookshelves of a new girlfriend or boyfriend- or peeked inside his or her medicine cabinet- understands this implicitly; you can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.

You can't see them, but it's chock full of defunct newspapermen, still spying through keyholes and persuading themselves they're acting in the best interests of democracy.

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

the safest place to keep your secrets is to keep them in your mind with a locked tongue

Teachers have to respect the privacy of students' creative life, but at the same time give them a chance to express themselves.

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.

I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology

No privacy left. No manners.

Also, I entreat you: do not show your work in progress to any outsider. I mean Bradley or Kahane, or anyone who is not working with you, following your thought, entering into it. It is confusing. These men are not your co-workers or even friends. These men are outsiders. Keep to yourself. You need a deep cohesion, a strong forward continuity. Admit no opinions until you are through.

t is surprising how well one writes if one thinks no one will read. –