P Quotes
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“Pristine river of lives
is swallowed by the crowd--
Human getting lost into humans.”
“Pritchard was lonely, and like most lonely souls, he saw happy couples everywhere.”
Source: The Luminaries
“Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.”
Source: Love's last shift; Woman's wit; Love makes a man; She would and she would not
“Pritkin and Mircea mixed like oil and water, only not so well.”
Source: Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel
“Pritkin gave me a little shake and I eyed him without favor. The only other occasions when I had been dragged back in time, the trip had been triggered by proximity to a person whose past was being threatened. I have to tell you,” I said frankly, “if someone is trying to mess with your conception or something, I’m not feeling a pressing need to intervene.”
Source: Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5
“Pritkin, it’s a hotel room, not a death trap!” A glance over his shoulder showed him impatient blue eyes under a fall of messy blond curls. “Anyway, you’re here.”
“I can’t protect you from everything,” he forced himself to say, because it was true. It was also frankly terrifying in a way that his own mortality was not. He’d never had children, but he sometimes wondered if this was how parents felt when catching sight of a fearless toddler confidently heading toward a busy street. Not that his charge was a child, as he was all too uncomfortably aware. But the knowledge of just how many potentially lethal pitfalls lay in her path sometimes caused him that same heart-clenching terror.
And the same overwhelming need to throw her over his lap and spank the living daylights out of her, he thought grimly, when she suddenly popped out of existence. “Cassie!”
Source: A Family Affair
“Pritkin kissed like he did everything else, straightforward, accepting no prisoners and with an intensity that left me breathless. It was hot and hard and desperate, like he was starving for it, and I opened my mouth and took it, because, God.”
Source: Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5
“Pritkin muttered something that sounded fairly vicious. “My clothes are warded! Even if I wished to accede to your demand, it would not work on them.” “Then strip.” “I beg your pardon?” He sounded almost polite suddenly, as if he believed he couldn’t possibly have heard right.”
“Pritom, ako zastaneš samo za tren i propustiš bujicu promena koje se svakodnevno valjaju gradskim ulicama, polako gubiš razlog da budeš pozivan i da ti se obraćaju. Imati pravu informaciju i, još važnije, u pravo vreme, pola je posla koji treba da se obavi, a ostalo je čist profit.”
Source: Samoprozvani rukopis
“Priusquam autem ad creationem, hoc est ad finem omnis disputationis, veniamus: tentanda omnia existimo.
However, before we come to [special] creation, which puts an end to all discussion: I think we should try everything else.”
Source: Johannes Kepler New Astronomy
“Privacy - like eating and breathing - is one of life's basic requirements.”
Source: A Calculated Risk: A Novel
“Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.”
“Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.”
Source: Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
“Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.”
“Privacy as a fundamental right allows a person to prohibit, regulate, and take other actions against any actual and/or foreseeable intrusions into his privacy, and this fundamental, constitutional right will trump any statutory right or limitation unless he high standards for making exceptions are met.”
Source: Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
“Privacy had gone the way of the dodo during Welga’s childhood. Some part of her always remembered the cameras. In Marrakech, the caliph’s network blackout had unsettled her more than the potential for violence – the lack of communication, the inability to see what others were doing. It would take a million lifetimes to watch every minute of every public feed, but she had a sense of security knowing she could look out for her people, and they’d do the same. Losing that had felt like walking around with one shoe: doable but not at all comfortable.”
Source: Machinehood
“Privacy I think gets invaded when you start being honest.”
“Privacy in one's associations... may in many circumstances be indispensable to freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.”
“Privacy is a basic human right, not a privilege.”
“Privacy is a bourgeois fantasy.”
“Privacy is a function of liberty.”
“Privacy is a fundamental human need.”
“Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young.”
“Privacy is a protection from the unreasonable use of state and corporate power. But that is, in a sense, a secondary thing. In the first instance, privacy is the statement in words of a simple understanding, which belongs to the instinctive world rather than the formal one, that some things are the province of those who experience them and not naturally open to the scrutiny of others: courtship and love, with their emotional nakedness; the simple moments of family life; the appalling rawness of grief. That the state and other systems are precluded from snooping on these things is important - it is a strong barrier between the formal world and the hearth, extended or not - but at root privacy is a simple understanding: not everything belongs to everyone.”
Source: The Blind Giant
“Privacy is absolutely essential to maintaining a free society. The idea that is at the foundation of the notion of privacy is that the citizen is not the tool or instrument of government - but the reverse... If you have no privacy, it will tend to follow that you have no political freedom.”
“Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.”
Source: Schneier on Security
“Privacy’ is an unusable term. We should instead talk about freedom, autonomy and self-determination of the individual. Being allowed to be yourself, to think whatever you want and to act within the law with no hindrance. That resonates with everyone.”
“Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.”
“Privacy is dead, and social media holds the smoking gun.”
“Privacy is dead. Reputations are dying.”
“Privacy is for people who believe they have forever. Transparency is for people who know they don’t."
— Samer Belami, Emergence at the VUE”
Source: Emergence at the VUE: Voices of a Midlife Crisis
“Privacy IS freedom. Leave us alone!”
“Privacy is implied. Privacy is not up for discussion.”
“Privacy is important. Anybody who doesn't think that, they're crap. But I know I'm going to lose some of that and that's something I'll have to deal with.”
“Privacy is not a luxury; it is the foundation of my dignity as a human, and without it, I'm merely a product to be sold.”
“Privacy is not a static construct. It is not an inherent property of any particular information or setting. It is a process by which people seek to have control over a social situation by managing impressions, information flows, and context.”
Source: It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
“Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.”
“Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.”
“Privacy is not for the passive.”
“Privacy is not just about hiding things or keeping secret, it’s about controlling who has access to your life.”
“Privacy is not negotiable.”
“Privacy is not something that can be counted, divided, or “traded.” It is not a substance or collection of data points. It’s just a word that we clumsily use to stand in for a wide array of values and practices that influence how we manage our reputations in various contexts. There is no formula for assessing it: I can’t give Google three of my privacy points in exchange for 10 percent better service.”
“Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.”
“Privacy is now the evidence, not the obstacle.
Today, proof no longer requires exposure.
Privacy has always been here, it's just that it became more impossible to ignore now. As regulation tightens and data tracking gets worse, people are realizing privacy isn’t optional.”
“Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.”
“Privacy is rarely lost in one fell swoop. It is usually eroded over time, little bits dissolving almost imperceptibly until we finally begin to notice how much is gone.”
Source: Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security
“Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you're job hunting. You don't spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don't tell trade secrets to your rivals.”
“Privacy is secretly broken and sly people know how to hide well. People with worse pasts never get exposed and people with minor pasts get exposed with lies. If we could know everything for everyone the world would be fairer.”
Source: The Impossible Proof Of Knowing Nothing
“Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring.”
“Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others. Secrecy we keep to separate ourselves from others, even those we love.”
Source: The Beach House