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Quotes About Privacy

It's always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating.
~ Luke Wilson
And so we turn off the telephone during this program and do not answer the knock at the door that rarely comes.
~ Lydia Davis
I am happy the leaves are growing large so quickly. Soon they will hide the neighbor and her screaming child.
~ Lydia Davis
I have a repugnance to be known and understood by everybody. I do not like to have my feelings or my thoughts every one's property.
~ Lyman Abbott
I lower my head so that you don't see my eyes, to deny you the joy of an exchanged glance,
~ Unknown
First of all, why in this free country of ours has "free speech" turned into "anything goes"? Why isn't it necessary to obtain permission from a child's parents to have a photo of that child published in a magazine, never mind the cover? We are used to seeing the adorable faces of celebrity babies on the covers of magazines, to see Suri Cruise and Violet Affleck and Preston and Jayden splashed all over the newsstand, but do we ever stop to wonder how those photos were obtained?
~ Unknown
Discretion is not the better part of biography.
~ Lytton Strachey
Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.
~ M. F. K. Fisher
I am not in the mood to have my underwear examined.
~ M.C. Beaton
Whispering makes a narrow place narrower.
~ Unknown
God waits for our permission and doesn't invade our privacy as we do with others. Everybody has free choice.
~ Unknown
We complain bitterly when we do not get all we want as if it were possible to have more services with lower taxes, broader health care coverage with no federal involvement, a cleaner environment without regulations, security from terrorists with no infringement on privacy, and cheaper consumer goods made locally by workers with higher wages.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
If an advertiser can use that information to home in on a consumer because of his or her individual interests, what's to stop a Fascist government from doing the same?
~ Madeleine K. Albright
It was very modern and deeply western to listen to music that no one else could hear. Private music led to private thoughts. Private thoughts led to private desires, to private fulfillments or private hungers, to a whole private universe away from parents, family and society.
~ Madeleine Thien
Sometimes, I think, you can look at a person and know they are full of words. Maybe the words are withheld due to pain or privacy, or maybe subterfuge.
~ Madeleine Thien
Peleus acknowledged this. "Yet other boys will be envious that you have chosen such a one. What will you tell them?" "I will tell them nothing." The answer came with no hesitation, clear and crisp. "It is not for them to say what I will do.
~ Madeline Miller
I will tell them nothing." The answer came with no hesitation, clear and crisp. "It is not for them to say what I will do.
~ Madeline Miller
We all have our little secrets, and as long as they're harmless, who really cares? With time, the secrets often go away and things don't matter anymore.
~ John Grisham
He) paused for a second and once more marveled at the speed with which one person's private business could be so thoroughly kicked around the neighborhood.
~ John Grisham
She looked great in tight jeans and short skirts, she looked great in anything or nothing, really, but for the moment she wanted no one to notice her.
~ John Grisham
Liza wiped some tears and decided to keep things dark. No one knew she was there and lights would only attract attention.
~ John Grisham
I am from Brookline, Massachusetts, but I was technically born in a hospital in Cambridge. So now you have a critical answer to many of my internet security questions. And as this book is about being honest with you for once, I will also tell you that my mother's maiden name was Callahan. Enjoy my Amazon Prime account and all my money.
~ John Hodgman
Most men don't mind if another woman watches. It's the women who are watching who don't want to be seen.
~ John Irving
Jenny Fields discovered that you got more respect from shocking other people than you got from trying to live your own life with a little privacy.
~ John Irving