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Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds. -- Loretta Chase
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
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. -- Zora Neale Hurston
For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern. -- Victor Hugo
I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you? -- Tom Baker
The right to personal privacy is precious. Without it, we are all potential victims for a prying secret police. -- Lewis B. Smedes
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
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
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
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
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
If they come prying they can leave curious. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
It is time to stop personal destruction and prying into private lives -- William J. Clinton
Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along. -- Brandon Sanderson
Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained. -- Philo
Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained. -- Philo
Retain your peace by refusing to respond to rude, judgemental, or prying people. They won't understand anyway. -- Manprit Kaur
When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving. -- Laozi
I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope. -- Oscar Wilde
I try to be authentic - but at the same time I don't really want people prying into my personal life. -- Zooey Deschanel
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
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
Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been on to more dearly than Him. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Said you wanted to talk and it was urgent," Kenny began as soon as Jett had closed the shutters, leaving them sheltered from prying eyesI never said" -- J.C. Reed
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
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
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
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
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 of the world and they that dwell therein. -- Zora Neale Hurston
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

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