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We're no longer in the Cold War. Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable. -- Vladimir Putin
Eavesdropping is such a regular-person activity. -- Franny Billingsley
Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop. -- Tom Waits
The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping -- Michael Hutchence
Literature is eavesdropping. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves. -- John Ray
The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught. -- Daniel Handler
Every cell in your body is eavesdropping on your thoughts. -- Deepak Chopra
The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping. -- Michael Hutchence
Sounds like you kids have some talking to do. I'll be eavesdropping from the kitchen. -- Jill Shalvis
I often work and write in coffee shops, observing the baristas and eavesdropping on interesting conversations. -- Christina Baker Kline
There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head. -- Thornton Wilder
There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head. -- Thornton Wilder
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
At least you're learning a thing or two about wine. Good to hear you're making such an effort to improve yourself." "Does the U.S. attorney know how much you like spending your Saturday nights eavesdropping on private conversations?" Nick asked. "The U.S. attorney knows exactly how I like spending my Saturday nights. -- Julie James
[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this story lasted, but Peter Pan himself, listening in. In exchanged for a story of yours, he might show you his most prized possession: James Hooks' map of Neverland. In exchange for a smile, he may show you Neverland itself. -- Geraldine McCaughrean
Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language, making the creative process something like eavesdropping at a party for which you've had the fun of drawing up the guest list. Loneliness usually doesn't set in until the work is finished, and all the partygoers and their imagined universe have disappeared. -- Hilma Wolitzer
Drug offenses ... may be regarded as the prototypes of non-victim crimes today. The private nature of the sale and use of these drugs has led the police to resort to methods of detection and surveillance that intrude upon our privacy, including illegal search, eavesdropping, and entrapment. Indeed, the successful prosecution of such cases often requires police infringement of the constitutional protections that safeguard the privacy of individuals. -- John Kaplan
Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping. -- Paul Fleischman
Every cell is eavesdropping on your internal dialogue. -- Deepak Chopra
A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Nothing good was ever learned from eavesdropping, so mind your business and let others mind theirs. -- Maryrose Wood
Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God. -- R. C. Sproul
Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping. -- Don Roff
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
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
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
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
I was eavesdropping, but I was so into what she was saying that when she said, I love you, I almost shouted it back from across the restaurant. -- Jarod Kintz
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
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

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