Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The enemies inside us: Indifference, Indecision, Doubt, Worry, and Over-caution. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more aware I am of the banality and indifference of a place like Trinidad to any development… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . . — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
“But the superiority of the British is that it is a matter of complete indifference to them if they appear to be… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Every public space is like a billboard, with messages from the collective subconscious of the nation. There one can read passivity, rage… — Slavenka Drakulic Copy Share Image
He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn't seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he'd… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
My church [Catholisism] is hurting from arrogance and from its indifference to the suffering of children that were abused and the inclination… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
No one can ever heap enough insults upon me to suit my taste. I think we all really thrive on hostility, because… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of Iran flooded the streets to protest… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
As Lent is the time for greater love, listen to Jesus' thirst...'Repen t and believe' Jesus tells us. What are we to… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“For myself, I have no aim. I have no ambition. I will let myself be carried on by the general impulse. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“And Petschek had asked—because he was genuinely puzzled by this—why so many people, Americans especially, seemed to feel that happiness was an… — Kevin Fedarko Copy Share Image
“In late February 2024 I talk to a friend of mine, a Palestinian Canadian author whose debut novel, rejected by many publishers,… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
Finally, there is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Nothing excites men's curiosity so much as Mystery, concealing things which they desire to know; and nothing so much increases curiosity as… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Selfish people, with no heart to speak of, have the best time of it. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference, — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image