Quotes About Privacy

Once anointed a hero by your fellow man, you lose the right to privacy. You become an object, stripped of some unquantifiable humanity, as if you have won a cosmic lottery and woke one day to find yourself a minor deity. The Patron Saint of Good Luck. It stops mattering what you wanted for yourself. All that matters is the role you played in the lives of others. You are a rare butterfly held roughly at a right angle to the sun.

AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.

When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all.

I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way.

If Shakespeare were alive now, no doubt he'd be interviewed every week and his opinions canvassed on every subject from national foreign policy to the social effects of punk rock. But in his day nobody cared what Shakespeare's views were about anything, and he wouldn't have been allowed to discuss public affairs publicly. He wasn't, therefore, under a constant pressure to become opinionated.

Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace.

Pudoarea e probabil un sentiment de profanare. Prietenia, iubirea, evlavia ar trebui tratate în chip tainic. Ar trebui s? vorbim despre ele doar în clipe rare, intime, s? ne în?elegem în t?cere cu privire la ele - Multe lucruri sunt prea ginga?e spre a fi gândite, ?i mai multe spre a fi rostite.

Some folks you tell some things, some folks you don't.

Allahtan kimse görmüyordu yapt?klar?m?. ??imde de bunun için yaln?zd?m; herkese, istedi?im yan?m? gösteriyordum böylece.

Clover missed his "me-time.

Sometimes I write to keep from going crazy. There's a world of things I don't feel free to talk to anyone about.

Most people have some idea that they're leaving traces of themselves whenever they go online, but very few realize how much. Even fewer people know how much all these digital footprints can tell others about their lives.

Her heart was bleeding for David Copperfield. Laurel never read David Copperfield when her mother was with her. Today the book, as usual, would be returned to its hiding place behind the cushion in the little parlor when she had finished with it.

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

For my part I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part…. If the existing code does not permit district attorneys to have a hand in such dirty business [wiretapping], it does not permit the judge to allow such iniquities to succeed.

Dance like no one is watching; email like it may one day be read aloud in a deposition.

Jestem osob? bardzo pow?ci?gliw?, bardzo nie?mia??, obsesyjnie strzeg?c? swojej prywatno?ci i zasadniczo stroni?c? od ludzi. I nie wierz? w mity, zw?aszcza we w?asny.

Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom.

Women found in me a man who could keep a love secret.

It's a faculty absolutely unique to man—having secrets.

Women found in me a man who could keep could keep a love secret.

When a person has secrets locked inside, he can't help but feel that there are ears embedded in the walls.

Sober, he would regard his wife with amor—the kind of amor the oldest sisters, Margarita and Isabel, knew took place at the end of the evening, when they were all supposed to be asleep and not listening for bedroom noises, agitated springs, gasping, rocking movements, moans of pleasure, or any other such unparental sounds, drifting down the halls, as if they were wall-less and not a single cicada nor a rushing wind existed in all the world.

Never show the depth of your life to anyone but God.