Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government,… — Plato Copy Share Image
I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I'm so not that woman. I'm passionate. I love my girls, being… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony with everything… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
That's what I call meditation. You simply stand aloof and just see the mind disappearing, like a cloud on a faraway horizon,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual… — Allen Toussaint Copy Share Image
“A moment ago, and how close she had been to him, of what importance in his life! And how aloof and remote… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I kept myself aloof from the world not because I had enemies, but because I had friends there. Not because they damaged… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The more the Jew is a Jew, the more universalist will his views and aspirations be, the less aloof will he be… — Samson Raphael Hirsch Copy Share Image
But one thing you have to understand clearly is that it is the man who longs for domination, and it is the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A cat is a purring parcel of paradox, a cunning collection of contradictions. A cat is lazy and busy, dainty and savage,… — Leonore Fleischer Copy Share Image
Meditation is not contemplation because it is not thinking at all - consistent, inconsistent, crazy, sane. It is not thinking at all;… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is for no particular item in the tax-bill that I refuse to pay it. I simply wish to refuse allegiance to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
She holds herself with such reserve. She smiles, but the smile doesn't reach her eyes, even in the company of the girls… — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to make decisions that necessarily exclude the collective. It's more difficult to be a friend - even though they… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When they [Democrats] running all these ads that are characterizing [Mitt] Romney as a rich, insensitive, out of touch, aloof nerd who… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I please myself with imagining a State at least which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The rishis of old attained the Knowledge of Brahman. One cannot have this so long as there is the slightest trace of… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Meditation simply means a discipline that makes you capable of being aloof and detached from your mind. So even if the mind… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A principal aim of education is to give students a taste for literature, for the books of life and power, and to… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Not all men are the same, you know. With someone such as Gavriel, I would suggest appearing aloof, not chasing too much.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Time Management Tips: One can make a radar-like sweep of the horizon to identify time and task challenges while these are still… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I think if Jesus had one shot at fixing us, He’d tell us how much He loves us. Jesus loves us right… — Judah Smith Copy Share Image
You could conceive spirituality as the study of the immeasurable, of the qualitative. But that's very different from the way we typically… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image