Prying Quotes

#1. When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.

Laozi

#2. It was once said that to hide something from prying eyes you must place it where people can see it.

Micheal Rivers

#3. Ouch! Son of a gu - " I scrambled to get up. My hands hit rough upholstery and the edge of a table. Okay, now I was lost. Prying open my bleary eyes, I peered around. "What the ...

Anonymous

#4. It is time to stop personal destruction and prying into private lives

William J. Clinton

#5. It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying.

Helena Bonham Carter

#6. When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing. When they burn down a building, they're committing arson.

Barack Obama

#7. I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

Oscar Wilde

#8. Afghan human rights campaigners worry that U.S. forces may be using secret detention sites like the one allegedly at Rish-Khor to carry out interrogations away from prying eyes. The U.S. military, however, denies even having knowledge of the facility.

Anand Gopal

#9. I have a confession to make.
I hate voir dire.
I despise prying into other people's lives because I wouldn't want them prying into mine.

Paul Levine

#10. And he had no qualms whatsoever about prying into someone's private thoughts and experiences. And no guilt about hoarding his own.

Nora Roberts

#11. Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#12. I covered Kennedy when she was three years old and the darling daughter of President Kennedy who doted on her and whose mother did everything to protect her from the prying press.

Helen Thomas

#13. We know the point of the 2010 Census is to count us, one by one, to tally every last resident, but the massive project of course has more prying, if limited, interests.

Chang-rae Lee

#14. The U.S. Constitution protects our privacy from the prying eyes of government. It does not, however, protect us from the prying eyes of companies and corporations.

Simon Sinek

#15. We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

Mark Twain

#16. I was the sort of kid who spent a Sunday afternoon prying little trees out of the foundation of his parents' house. I should have given in to the inevitable truth that this was the sort of person I would become, in the end, but I kept fighting it.

Louise Erdrich

#17. If they come prying they can leave curious.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#18. I never saw her a burglar prying my windows open with a jimmy to steal whatever she found inside.

Ellen Miller

#19. I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you?

Tom Baker

#20. There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.

H.P. Lovecraft

#21. Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Zora Neale Hurston

#22. What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower ... Poetry is like this, it is life moving, terrible, vivid. Look the other way when you write, or you might faint.

Elizabeth Smart

#23. As soon as we get the place secure, I'll get in touch," Miller said. "Okay, but don't take too long. If Thoth Station has a whorehouse left standing, I'm going to need help prying Amos out of it.

James S.A. Corey

#24. Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.

George Santayana

#25. It would probably be wiser to nail up over the door of the new quantum theory a notice, 'Structural alterations in progress - No admittance except on business', and particularly to warn the doorkeeper to keep out prying philosophers.

Arthur Stanley Eddington

#26. I try to be authentic - but at the same time I don't really want people prying into my personal life.

Zooey Deschanel

#27. Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin. They built this castle together, far from prying Muggle eyes, for it was an age when magic was feared by common people, and witches and wizards suffered much persecution.

J.K. Rowling

#28. An infant is born with a clenched fist; a man dies with an open hand. Life has a way of prying free the things we think are so important.

John C. Maxwell

#29. The assassination at Sarajevo was certainly the crucial precedent of the European war that its conspirators had sought, but was not the historical cause ... The assassination acted as a lever, prying the various powers into predictable paths.

J. Bowyer Bell

#30. In private life, human beings spend a great deal of time in seclusion behind closed doors (e.g., in bathrooms and bedrooms) and other partitions designed to shield their bodies from prying eyes. Scientists have determined that too much visual monitoring can be harmful to human health.

David B. Givens

#31. I had so much fun writing this book and I want readers to have fun also. A Passion for Prying is a feel-good, fun read. It's like eating a delicious, sinful hot fudge sundae--pure fun and indulgence.

Nancy Mangano

#32. Mr. Speaker, Americans want, need, and rightfully expect Congress to protect them from the prying eyes of identity thieves and give them back control of their Social Security numbers and personal health information.

Luis Gutierrez

#33. Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.

William Blake

#34. The right to personal privacy is precious. Without it, we are all potential victims for a prying secret police.

Lewis B. Smedes

#35. Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been holding on to more dearly than Him.

Tullian Tchividjian

#36. Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.

Loretta Chase

#37. For prying into any human affairs, none are equal to those whom it does not concern.

Victor Hugo

#38. Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#39. All patriarchists exalt the home and family as sacred, demanding it remain inviolate from prying eyes. Men want privacy for their violations of women ... All women learn in childhood that women as a sex are men's prey.

Marilyn French

#40. Retain your peace by refusing to respond to rude, judgemental, or prying people. They won't understand anyway.

Manprit Kaur

#41. I realize then, what my mother already knows - has known for a long time. Motherhood is a procession of goodbyes. Some bittersweet and filled with promise and hope, some gradual, a gentle prying away of your fingers from something precious, some more violent, unexpected.

Heather Gudenkauf

#42. Learning is by nature curiosity ... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.

Philo Of Alexandria

#43. Manfried imagined the stars to be jewels shining in the depths of a long-sealed crypt and, drifting off, he almost glimpsed himself prying open the lid of night and stuffing his pockets with the glittering gems.

Jesse Bullington

#44. I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own.

Andre Breton

#45. Keep from prying into other people's affairs, for such prying gives occasion for slander, judgment, and other grievous sins. Why do you need to be concerned about others? Know and examine your own self.

Tikhon Of Zadonsk

#46. Slowly, painfully, I let go. It was like prying my own fingers off the edge of the cliff. And that hurt too-particularly the falling part, and not being sure what was at the bottom.
But I did know. Now was what was at the bottom. I was already there.

Robin McKinley

#47. Max marvels that you can't tell at all from his voice how this type of thing
the casual prying, snooping and implications
royally pisses him off. He really should have gone into acting. It's a tragically wasted talent.

Lynn Kelling

#48. I hated the place (Hollywood), not the work, but the lack of privacy, those terrible prying fan magazine writers and all the surrounding exploitation.

Jean Arthur

#49. -Excuse me,- I said, but my voice seemed to disappear into the dark.
It was my body. In this gloomy, cramped box, I had eaten poison plants and died, hidden away from prying eyes.
Crouching down at the door, I wept. For my dead self.

Yoko Ogawa

#50. Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along.

Brandon Sanderson

#51. We wore that grief like one wears one's underclothes. An invisible skin, unseen to prying eyes, but knitted to us all the same. We wore it every day.

Alyson Richman

#52. The doctor was a private man, engaged in a dark and dangerous business, and could ill afford the prying eyes and gossiping tongue of the servant class.

Rick Yancey

#53. In the evangelical world, prying can be an indicator of compassion.

Kevin Roose

#54. The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless and prying philanthropy, which is almost omniscient, is one of the most hopeful characteristics of the time.

Mary Baker Eddy

#55. Private lives should be no business of the State. The State is bad enough as it is. It cannot educate or medicate or feed the people; it cannot do anything but kill the people. No State like that do we want prying into our private lives.

Gore Vidal