A 'truth' detached and purified of pleasures of ordinary life is not worth a damn in my view. Every grand theory and… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
To go against gangs or drugs is meaningless unless this is mostly done by filling in the empties, the vacuums, and stop… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
You will never be able to have perfect interior peace and recollection unless you are detached even from the desire of peace… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
A word must become a friend or you will not understand it. Perhaps you do well to be cool and detached when… — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
Can't stand it. Too many amps, too much volume, it's just flat-out ear assault. Speedy guitars leave me not feeling detached but… — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country. — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
I don't really identify with America, I don't really feel like an American or part of the American experience, and I don't… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. You can't be detached and effective. — Abba Eban Copy Share Image
This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity. — Shmuley Boteach Copy Share Image
The Great Being saith: Human utterance is an essence which aspireth to exert its influence and needeth moderation. As to its influence,… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
What is one's personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I am religious by nature, I'm not a nihilist. I don't follow, I don't even know what the tenets of things like… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and be-come more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest… — David Korten Copy Share Image
[On New York:] ... a city rose before me. It was narrow and tall like a gothic temple, surrounded by water, and… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
The bigger you grow, the more intimate communication has to be. It almost has to be belly and belly. As you get… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
If someone is feeling out of sorts or detached it's a great time to bring them in and restate why we are… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
All have I overcome, all do I know. From all am I detached. All have I renounced. Wholly absorbed am I in… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“You grieve at first. And then slowly, with the yawning of the years, the disappeared gets scraped from your memory, the way… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Happiness is yours in the here and now. The painful states of anxiety and loneliness are abolished permanently. Financial affairs are not… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
I am a Piscean, and they have a lovingly detached attitude towards life. — Shahid Kapoor Copy Share Image
Now I understand why people do drugs, why people drink, and why people go crazy. As the success level goes up and… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
The best doctors found a middle position where they were neither overwhelmed by their feelings nor estranged from them. That was the… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
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