Weight every purpose in the light of eternity. A trivial pursuit is that which is out side the will of God &… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered. — Amy Ephron Copy Share Image
One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to… — Janwillem van de Wetering Copy Share Image
Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
I'm serious, in general, and I guess I cling onto the little freedom I have offscreen. Having said that, I am funny… — Nithya Menen Copy Share Image
“I feel something change in me... I feel a flat calm, a detachment, the way I get when something is too much… — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
Being 'poor in spirit' (a Christian virtue) means being detached from things - being able to possess goods without being possessed by… — James Stenson Copy Share Image
The spirit is the only thing that is free within, which has no hang-ups, which has no habits, which does not stick… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
We have never been more detached from one another, or lonelier. In a world consumed by ever more novel modes of socializing,… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
Catching up on pictures of your good friend's kids ahead of a visit across the country to see her is a great… — Michelle Gielan Copy Share Image
I really wanted to be able to make the music that acknowledged the metaphysical aspect of extreme sports because when I started… — Taraka Larson Copy Share Image
Even her name seemed empty, as though it had detached itself from her and was floating untethered in his mind. How am… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
This might be a controversial thing to suggest, but in a quest to understand and relate to terrorism or school shootings, sometimes… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
The constructive schizoid person stands against the spiritual emptiness of encroaching technology and does not let himself be emptied by it. He… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
See that unfortunate soldier who is falling hurt to death ("tombe blessé à...", Fr.) on the battlefield; he learns that his folks… — African Spir Copy Share Image
I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
If I seem detached or distant, it's because I think this is a more exact reproduction of life, where you hide as… — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
Often a successful problem-solver is one who creates a new context in which to view the problem. This can often be done… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
Music is what is going to save me," "On the bad days, when I have to look at the cold, hard facts… — Phoebe Snow Copy Share Image
A religious belief is not a statement about Reality, but a hint, a clue about something that is a mystery, beyond the… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Now you are changed people. Your personality is different. It's shining through your spirit. In that spirit, you have to see everything.… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward… I was wrapped in the cocoon… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
True realism, materialist realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
To love God as He ought to be loved, we must be detached from all temporal love. We must love nothing but… — Peter Claver Copy Share Image
Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
To be the authentic is to be detached and stand aside from oneself and the work so that the working process can… — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with feeling great… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I find acting in contact lenses is bizarre to me, because there's just a giant filter between you and the world. I… — Matthew Rhys Copy Share Image
It's amazing people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No one has any contact with how things… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
As a writer, it's a great narrative tool to have that character who is slightly detached but at the same time observant… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
In order to settle down in the quiet of our own being we must learn to be detached from the results of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I may be flying a complicated airplane, rushing through space, but in this cabin I'm surrounded by simplicity and thoughts set free… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Some people see me as dissecting my characters in some kind of heartless, coldblooded, analytical way, when in truth making these movies… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
