Quotes About Privacy

to live well you must live unseen

Let's go somewhere in private and try to resolve this." "Let's talk this over and find a suitable compromise." "I'd like to hear how you saw the situation so that I better understand.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen

He who hid well, lived well.

Our model is the Jesus, not only of Calvary, but of the workshop, the roads, the crowds, the clamorous demands and surly oppositions, the lack of all peace and privacy, the interruptions. Jesus is the divine life operating under human conditions. — C. S. Lewis

Wolfe could get sentimental about it if he wanted to, but I don't like any stranger nosing around my private affairs, let alone a nation of 130 million people.-Archie Goodwin

Invade a man's privacy and then put the burden on him.

Archie.' 'Yes, sir.' 'Do I ever intrude in your private affairs?' 'Yes, sir. Frequently. But you think you don't, so go right ahead.

You should know that your only safe secrets are those you have yourself forgotten.

She was essentially living in a fishbowl, and she would have to tread with caution

Allowing children open access to every aspect of parents' lives can make for children who simply cannot bear the idea of their parents having experiences, relationships, and more that exclude them.

He [Edward Snowden] has been careful with his info, doling it out to responsible news organizations — The Post, the New York Times, the Guardian, etc. — and not tossing it up in the air, WikiLeaks style, and echoing the silly mantra "Information wants to be free." (No. Information, like most of us, wants a home in the Hamptons.)" – Richard Cohen, Washington Post (10/22/2013)

In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.

Everyone has a secret place in his mind. Otherwise relationships would be impossible.

Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep.

She has lived far from commerce for decades, and yet her name is a hot commodity, bought and sold endlessly as she sits in her cabin reading Thoreau. She hopes the buyers aren't paying much. No: she hopes they're being extorted.

There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.

It's none of your business anyhow," Wirf said. Words to live by, Sully had to admit. But he kept hearing Peter's mockery. Not really his dog. Not really his house. Not really his business. And there were other not reallys as well. There

Electronic communication is one means by which the very idea of public life has been put to an end.

Look, if we go in the front, they'll both want to fuss over you, and we won't have any privacy, and I can't mention ghosts and weird things in front of them." "You know, cher , I've had a lotta girls talk me into their bedrooms, but this is the first time I've heard that excuse.

Some people like a bidet, but Mrs. Salk said she does not want to shoot water up herself from a spigot that others have also used.

He (Nixon) needed someone with him so he could be alone.

Ever come home and found your room messed up? Like some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to clean it, and suddenly you can't find anything? And even if nothing is missing, you get that creepy feeling like somebody's been looking through your private stuff and dusting everything with lemon furniture polish?

No. I refuse to share this part of my story. It was the lowest, most humiliating, most awful week in my four-thousand plus years of life. Tragedy. Disaster. Heartbreak. I will not tell you about it. Why are you still here? Go away.