Quotes About Eavesdropping

Most of the results of using technical bugging devices were of little importance for my service. It may have been different in counter-intelligence, where bugs in flats, etc., were used to obtain a lot of information about what counter-intelligence was interested in.

I strongly believe the Government are listening to everything we say.

sightseeing, an activity that delights the truly idle because it seems so much like scholarship, gawping and eavesdropping on antiquity, flattering oneself with the notion that one is discovering the past when really one is inventing it, using a guidebook as a scenario of swift notations.

I attended one of the many Mexican weddings that weekend, as an uninvited, eavesdropping celebrant.

Obsessive and easily bored, he was incapable of being sexually faithful to any woman. He reveled in being a wanderer, an eavesdropper, a stranger

Of course. NSA is rumored to tape record every transatlantic telephone conversation. Maybe they'd recorded this session.

A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.

There is no better way to conceal oneself than by listening to others.

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done 'heard' bout just what they hope done happened.

Eavesdroppers hear no good of themselves." "Yes," Pandora conceded, "but they hear fascinating things about other people.

I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.

Penstemon, overhearing

Without strong encryption, you will be spied on systematically by lots of people.

From a pure heart anything can be accomplished. If you ask what the universe is doing, it is eavesdropping on your every desire.

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One can learn much through the thin walls of summer houses.

The moon moved in so close she eavesdropped on us.

I will have the children read Hamlet as soon as it is practical. There are some useful cautions against eavesdropping to be gleaned from that.

Unknown to the sleeping family, three of their cell phones had been covertly switched on, providing the STU with interior audio listening devices paid for and put in position by the Edmonds themselves. To the STU Team members, what civilians didn't know about their own cell phones was simply mind boggling.

The man cupped his hand in front of his lips, speaking to me out of the side of his mouth, so no one would hear – he told me that he enjoyed watching people die.

She told me that the call had been a deliberate move to let all of Russian officialdom know about her views on my performance. As she wrote in her memoir, "I made a point of calling him on an open line one night, and speaking very clearly so all the eavesdropping Russian spies could hear, I told him what a good job he was doing.

It was through eavesdropping that I learned that you could buy fresh peanut butter at Whole Foods from a machine that grinds it in front of you . I had wasted so much of my life eating stupid old, already-ground peanut butter. So, yeah, I highly recommend a little nosiness once in a while.

like eavesdropping on women my age. Besides being titillating, it also helps me gauge where I'm at in comparison. Am I normal? Am I doing the correct trendy cardio exercises? Am I reading the right books? Is gluten still lame? Is soap cool again, or is body wash still the way to go? It was through eavesdropping that I learned that you could buy fresh peanut butter at Whole Foods from a machine that grinds it in front of you.

Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.