Quotes About Prying People

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

Laozi

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

Manprit Kaur

#3. Growth is ignited anytime you put in expressways and interchanges. It's a synergistic effect.

Charles Lee

#4. 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

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

Zooey Deschanel

#6. I wonder if I have woven through dreams the sexual strife. I don't think so. But after all, my business is to weave dreams. I suppose I may be allowed to choose the material.

Jorge Luis Borges

#7. We often say things like, "Jesus died so I didn't have to, " but it's actually much worse. The truth is, Jesus died and so did I. But the worse morphs into better when we remember that Jesus didn't stay dead. And neither do we. Let the dying moments remind us where to find the living.

Emily P. Freeman

#8. What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#9. We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.

Rumi

#10. The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both.

David Mamet

#11. 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

#12. Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life.

Mason Cooley

#13. By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.

Ovid

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

Micheal Rivers

#15. Along the way, I learned the key to launching a company. It's all about storytelling.

Gil Penchina

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. That would have been a nice place, inside an idea, but it wasn't a place to live. It was necessary to live where the idea and the fact collided.

William McIlvanney

#20. Sometimes I think my own brain might be a bitch whose sole purpose is to make me feel shitty. To quote Malcolm from Malcolm in the Middle, "Why won't my brain let me be happy?

L. H. Cosway