If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore... — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
To combat social awkwardness, I would just act like I couldn't be bothered - that kind of aloof persona or aloof demeanor.… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
I guess people think I'm aloof just because I don't talk much. I guess I'd think the same thing if I saw… — Robert Parish Copy Share Image
Anger, ego, jealousy are the biggest diseases,Keep yourself aloof from these three diseases. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
I am not as confident as the characters I play. I am a bit aloof. I am uncomfortable in social situations. — Anushka Sharma Copy Share Image
I think she [Hillary Clinton] would be far superior to President [Barack] Obama, who is basically remote, aloof and not involved with… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
aloof, adj. It has always been my habit, ever since junior high school, to ask that question: “What are you thinking?” It… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
If you're a Brit you kinda get used to people being cold and aloof and just generally arrogant - particularly musicians. (Compared… — Thea Gilmore Copy Share Image
To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof… — Confucius Copy Share Image
If someone were plucked from the group and given those responsibilities, they might find themselves growing more aloof, just by virtue of… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“word that drifted into English from Holland, where English itself was born around the 11th century, according to Melvyn Bragg. From the… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is well known that we fight in God's cause... but unless God helps us by a miracle the English, who have… — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
The Koran says that humanity has been created to recognize and worship God and, as a dimension of this worship, to improve… — Fethullah Gulen 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
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
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
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
By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools -… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
God is not aloof. He is not disconnected. He says continually through the centuries, I’ll help you, I really will. When you… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share Image
Don't choose. If you choose, you will be in the quagmire. Don't choose! A choiceless awareness is the goal. Just remain aloof;… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless; it is precisely… — Stefan Zweig 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
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
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
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
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
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
I'd be fine if there weren't film festivals, and you just made your films and didn't have to do anything from that… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them,… — Ze Frank Copy Share Image