Quotes about Privacy

The noise obviously wasn't penetrating to his quarters.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.

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.

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.

I mean People come up and ask for autographs or say hi but they wont bug you.

Most of us have a "Do Not Disturb" sign around our necks.

Whoever managed to rebrand the typical open-plan office—with all its noise, lack of privacy, and resulting interruptions—as something hip and modern deserves a damn medal from the Committee of Irritating Distractions.

For now, what things have you done that you prefer to keep private? What things in your life do you insist on keeping secret? That's where we will find the shame that is attached to what we do.

I think an actor's process should be very personal and private, and sometimes I have thought, 'Oh, please, put it away now.'

The secret of praying is praying in secret.

Some might say that one's faith is a private matter and should not be spoken of so publicly. They might assert this in public, but what do they really think in their hearts? The fact is, those who say such things usually don't even have a concern for faith in the privacy of their interior lives.

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.