Top 57 Quotes About Eavesdropping
#1. There is no point in trying to remember your dreams ... There is only the unspeakable joy of eavesdropping on your spirit, catching tiny glimpses of its independent life, resting for a moment in its wisdom, puzzling, laughing sometimes, over what it's up to, what it makes of you.
Marsha Norman
#2. My wife thinks a B&B is a romantic getaway. I think it's creepy, sharing coffee with strangers who were eavesdropping on you the night before.
Tom Papa
#3. He rubbed at his chin. I think we're going to have to add a no eavesdropping clause to the house rules. We might have to take out the no sex thing though.
Karina Halle
#4. The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.
Lemony Snicket
#5. It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.
Ben Marcus
#6. From a pure heart anything can be accomplished. If you ask what the universe is doing, it is eavesdropping on your every desire.
Deepak Chopra
#8. The second covered the history of the Bush warrantless eavesdropping program, based on a top secret 2009 internal report from the NSA's inspector general; another detailed the BOUNDLESS INFORMANT program that I had read about on the plane;
Glenn Greenwald
#9. Nothing good was ever learned from eavesdropping, so mind your business and let others mind theirs.
Maryrose Wood
#10. Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop.
Tom Waits
#11. A national security letter cannot be used to authorize eavesdropping or to read the contents of e-mail. But it does permit investigators to trace revealing paths through the private affairs of a modern digital citizen.
Barton Gellman
#12. The war in Iraq, the abuse of detainees, electronic eavesdropping, Guantanamo Bay - these things were all done on our behalf and they may turn out in the end to have created more terrorists.
Jess Walter
#13. Sounds like you kids have some talking to do. I'll be eavesdropping from the kitchen.
Jill Shalvis
#14. When we open the Bible and read it, we are eavesdropping on an ancient spiritual journey.
Peter Enns
#15. 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.
Paul Theroux
#16. A raintree bent towards a window in one side of the bungalow, eavesdropping on the conversations that had taken place inside over years.
Tan Twan Eng
#17. Your brain is always eavesdropping on your thoughts. As it listens, it leans. If you teach it about limitation, your brain will become limited ... Teach your brain to be unlimited.
Deepak Chopra
#18. Eavesdropping, Mother?' Ramses inquired.
'It is a shameful habit, but cursed useful,' I said, quoting something he had once said, and was rewarded by one of his rare and rather engaging smiles.
Elizabeth Peters
#19. Eavesdropping's a sin, but ignorance is fatal. Take your pick.
Elizabeth Bear
#20. Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.
R.C. Sproul
#21. I often work and write in coffee shops, observing the baristas and eavesdropping on interesting conversations.
Christina Baker Kline
#22. Eavesdropping is a deplorable habit, but I have developed worse ones since.
Patrick Rothfuss
#23. Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.
Paul Fleischman
#24. It's difficult to talk to people who whisper even at home, afraid of Americans eavesdropping on them. It's not a figure of speech, not a joke, I'm serious.
Vladimir Putin
#25. Everybody should eavesdrop once in a while. There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
Thornton Wilder
#26. She and her mom used to visit him on lunch breaks and, in later years, she did her homework in an empty interrogation room while eavesdropping on the dispatch.
Rob Thomas
#27. A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
Barbara Kingsolver
#28. It was a weird sensation. Like getting caught eavesdropping, or lying, or sitting on the toilet and having the bathroom walls suddenly drop away.
Janet Evanovich
#29. The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping.
Michael Hutchence
#30. Everyone in the world is impacted by the United States' Big Brother attitude toward the world. We need countries to say no to the United States. The United States is the dominant power in the universe, with its eavesdropping abilities, cyber abilities. And the world is in danger with our tyranny.
Oliver Stone
#31. I spend my time sitting in train stations, parks, parking lots, cafes, just looking at people - eavesdropping, basically. I'm vulnerable to all of it.
Saul Williams
#32. 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.
Maryrose Wood
#33. Wait, were you eavesdropping on my conversation with the duke? That's very rude."
"Is it? Half of the plays in the world contain eavesdropping. I assumed it was a common practice.
Sabrina Jeffries
#34. Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar's dinner, from a hundred charities?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#35. On his own okay, Bush has authorized eavesdropping on as many as a thousand people over the past three years, with some of those intercepts being purely domestic, the New York Times reported.
Margaret Carlson
#36. Oh, that? I never thought it was eavesdropping, Aslan. Wasn't it magic?"
"Spying on people by magic is the same as spying on them in any other way.
C.S. Lewis
#37. We're no longer in the Cold War. Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable.
Vladimir Putin
#38. I especially like eavesdropping on women my age. Besides being titillating, it also helps me gauge where I'm at in comparison.
Mindy Kaling
#39. Adam and Ronan lurked in the hall, eavesdropping, too cowardly to face Calla's wrath.
Maggie Stiefvater
#40. Eavesdropping's sort of thrilling 'cause you learn what people really think, but eavesdropping makes you miserable for exactly the same reason.
David Mitchell
#41. Tigerkit! Have you been eavesdropping again? Tawnypelt glared at her dark tabby kit, but it was easy to see the fondness in her eyes.
Erin Hunter
#42. I got to eavesdrop at a window. As Clay said, I did have another option. I could wait in the car and let them fill me in later. So, eavesdropping it was.
Kelley Armstrong
#43. Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.
Don Roff
#44. I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less like inventing a nuclear bomb.
Julia Cameron
#45. Every cell in your body is eavesdropping on your thoughts.
Deepak Chopra
#46. Every cell is eavesdropping on your
internal dialogue.
Deepak Chopra
#48. 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.
Mindy Kaling
#49. Do you think me cruel?" Neith asked. "Oh, yes, I collect the pockets of my enemies." "Horrifying," I said. "I didn't know demons had pockets." "Oh, yes." Neith glanced in either direction, apparently to be sure no one was eavesdropping. "You just have to know where to look.
Rick Riordan
#50. ho' was one I hadn't heard before," I admitted as we pushed through the door, gently popping an eavesdropping Dick in the side of the head. Dick cursed. Aunt Jettie shrugged. "You leave the TV on during the day. I've watched a lot of Maury Povich.
Molly Harper
#51. If eavesdropping on someone else's nightmares is supposed to make me feel better, I'd rather stay feeling like shit. I don't think telling them about my horror story would do me any good. And besides, I'm not even supposed to have a story to tell. - Nastya Kashnikov
Katja Millay
#52. I'm going to my room," Jessie Kay called. "Y'all do me a favor and argue loud enough so I can listen in without having to strain myself.
Gena Showalter
#53. Whatever you do, don't make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the ventilation shaft, Lina told herself.
Jaleigh Johnson
#54. Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.
John Ray
#55. She had become really quite expert, she thought, at listening as though she didn't listen, at sitting in other people's lives just for a minute while they talked round her.
Katherine Mansfield
#56. Why did people do it? Why this herd curiosity about a street, a house, windows, doors? He was a public servant, the Inspector mused, but there were times when he would enjoy loading all the rubbernecks onto barges and towing them out to sea to be served, with ceremony, to sharks.
Ellery Queen
#57. I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.
Jodi Picoult
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