The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate. — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I am as dispassionate as it is possible for a human being to be and not be a machine. — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
Only the individual who has come to terms with his self can have a dispassionate attitude toward the world. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
...this does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
the sun is as dispassionate as the hand of a man who greets you with his mind on other things. — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Science is not neutral in its judgments, nor dispassionate, nor detached. — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
“In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, for knowledge, and even beauty is only a vein sticking up… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
As a journalist, my job is to be dispassionate. Suddenly to be the centre of a story and to be crying, it… — Natasha Kaplinsky Copy Share Image
They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans. — George Will Copy Share Image
But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of… — John Fahey Copy Share Image
The step that a lot of people miss is a dispassionate evaluation of the reasons [for rejection]. If you can dispassionately evaluate… — Brian Koppelman Copy Share Image
My boyfriends have all been as stoical as queen's guards. They'd been patient, committed, and dispassionate, and I'd had to really debase… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy… — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share Image
Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Well, who is more likely to volunteer to take a job in a bureaucracy that has little to recommend it except that… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
It is high time that laymen abandoned the misleading belief that scientific enquiry is a cold dispassionate enterprise, bleached of imaginative qualities,… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
If people knew what Matisse, supposedly the painter of happiness, had gone through, the anguish and tragedy he had to overcome to… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
[My] pillar of support through life… I can say conscientiously that I do not know in the world a man of purer… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you… — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
The notion that the UN is some sort of dispassionate body that, does right and just pursues everybody's best interests is a… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is… — James Van Allen Copy Share Image
Everybody is looking with his own world of desires, expectations, passions, lust, greed, anger. There are a thousand and one things standing… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
God, Who is by nature good and dispassionate, loves all men equally as His handiwork. But He glorifies the virtuous man because… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has… — Galen Strawson Copy Share Image
The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“since dispassionate self-knowledge is not a quality held in much esteem by the majority of the human race,” — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
What remains of your past if you didn't allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don't have your experiences… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
However, if we wish to be compassionate with our fellow man, we must learn to engage in dispassionate analysis. In other words,… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image