Prying Quotes

37 quotes by 35 authors

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
For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern. — Victor Hugo
Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths. — George Santayana
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
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… — Tikhon of Zadonsk
No Temple made by mortal human hands can ever compare to the Temple made by the gods themselves. That building of wood and stone that… — Vera Nazarian
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… — Marilyn French
When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving. — Laozi
Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained. — Philo
When we depend on anything smaller than God to provide us with the security, significance, meaning, and value that we long for, God will love… — Tullian Tchividjian
Poetry restores language by breaking it, and I think that much contemporary writing restores fantasy, as a genre of writing in contrast to a genre… — Michael Cisco
It is time to stop personal destruction and prying into private lives — William J. Clinton
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,… — Mary Baker Eddy
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets… — Zora Neale Hurston
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… — Gore Vidal
I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you? — Tom Baker
The pack of media brayed and bellowed outside the house for seven weeks. Sol realized then what he had known and forgotten about very small… — Dan Simmons
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… — Louise Erdrich
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… — Barack Obama
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. — Zora Neale Hurston

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