Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Philistine - a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined,… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I do my intellectual work inside myself, and once I am with my fellow creatures it is more or less a matter… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Violent measures are always dangerous, but, when necessary, may then be looked on as wise. They have, however, the advantage of never… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It’s a system we have allowed, through ignorance and indifference, to destroy the innocent without a moments concern for fairness or truth” — Frank Vetro Copy Share Image
We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to the suffering outside… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“How intimately I experience in my heart just what he must have felt in all of those unknown rooms, some of them… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
What a learned idea! Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“He did not care what the end would be, and in his lucid moments overvalued his indifference. The danger, when not seen,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
The pangs of pain, of failure, in this mortal lot, are the birth-throes of transition to better things. We are separated for… — John Elof Boodin Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Tomorrow is Election Day. It's what they call the midterm elections, and you can cut the indifference with a knife. It's the… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
I went to war. … I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes,… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“Some days he climbed over the foothills of indifference to see the landscape of his life and future for what it was:… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“When attention turns into indifference or love fades away into a grey zone of discomfort, only imagination can bring us back to… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism and make us feel that… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“After the first blush of sin comes its indifference; and from immoral it becomes, as it were, unmoral, and not quite unnecessary… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It seemed to him that life's true tragedy was to lift up one's voice among the living and be met with indifference.” — Cristina Garcia Copy Share Image
Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath… — John Clare Copy Share Image
The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a… — Socrates Copy Share Image
It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster.… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“The heart is a pump, xxx weak and fickle as any other machine, and sometimes an embolism of indifference stops affection's flow.” — James K. Morrow Copy Share Image
Depending on the inflection, ah bon can express shock, disbelief, indifference, irritation, or joy - a remarkable achievment for two short words. — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others. — Willy Brandt Copy Share Image
A difference of oppinion does not need to cause disunity, it is an opportunity to bring about deeper overstanding — Deri Isaac Copy Share Image
When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“For some authorities it isn't that they're evil - or even that they're incompetent - but rather they just don't care enough;… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve. — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
“that indifference to the sufferings which they cause which, whatever names else be given it, is the one true, terrible and lasting… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
