“A man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and community have at heart if he would be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore... — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I know that keeping aloof is not a wise thing but since I have nothing to prove, please don't depict me as… — Suresh Gopi Copy Share Image
The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent (Both types are crawling around deep down in the rabbit's fur!)” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater… — Catherine Marshall Copy Share Image
While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution. — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there… — Herman Melville 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
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
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
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
There were tactical decisions that I wish I could have done differently: mission accomplished, not revealing my drunken driving charge prior to… — George W. Bush 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 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
On painting and fighting looke aloofe. [On painting and fighting look aloof.] — George Herbert Copy Share Image