The style of studied nonchalance is the psychological triumph of grace over order. — G. Bruce Boyer Copy Share Image
“After all, I was dressed in linen and so retained a certain capacity for nonchalance.” — Joanna Ruocco Copy Share Image
It should be done with the same degree of alacrity and nonchalance that you would display in authorizing a highly intelligent trained… — Daniel S Greenberg Copy Share Image
We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Balekin and Orlagh are planning your murder,” I say flustered. “Yes,” he says lazily. “So why did I wake at all?” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Compassion only plagues those with hearts, much like a field of thorns only troubles those who bleed.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“...with the nonchalance that came from the belief of youth that nothing could go wrong, and whatever could already had.” — Kiran Manral Copy Share Image
“MARIE [Alone, after apause.] Whata bitch I am. I could stab myself. - Oh, what a world! Everything goes to hell anyhow,… — Georg Büchner Copy Share Image
But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Thanks to Granna, Werner and Walter had grown up to be highly functioning, productive citizens - but if you were to ask… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Alex had what the Italians called sprezzatura--the kind of studied nonchalance that implies no time has been taken at all to look… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
There are two cardinal human sins out of which all others derive, deviate, and dissipate: impatience and lassitude (or perhaps nonchalance). On… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I want to put a soul in a garment. I don't want my clothes to be perfect, because human beings are not… — Ann Demeulemeester Copy Share Image
For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Enough with nonchalance in the name of practicality! Let us now rise as tornado and wipe out all apathy.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could wish.” — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air. — Earl Wilson Copy Share Image
“70% of schoolteachers teach only in their spare time, or when they are in the mood.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“He adored competing but didn't want you to know he'd ever worked at it.” — H.W. Brands Copy Share Image
The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.” — H.W. Brands Copy Share Image
Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort… — Baldassare Castiglione Copy Share Image
“To others, I am as they perceive me, and they address me based on their preferences. I have no objection to people's… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“What's the matter with her? [Jasper] asked Griffin. Griffin shook his head. 'Nothing. She's just two personas struggling for dominance in one… — Kady Cross Copy Share Image
“Maybe it takes longer than this to affect you as compared to him.' Ieuan was looking at the physician dubiously. 'Then I'm… — Sarah Woodbury Copy Share Image
I have discovered a universal rule which seems to apply more than any other in all human actions or words: namely, to… — Baldassare Castiglione Copy Share Image
“What did you say, Arthur?" "I said, how the hell did you get here?" "I was a row of dots flowing randomly… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Employ in everything a certain casualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done and said is accomplished without… — Baldassare Castiglione Copy Share Image
Collections are certainly abundant online. It's complicated, because it's not like these people didn't want computers, although there was some nonchalance about… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“Ah, today is not really a good day, but my afterthought suggests it is, since I have had the chance to learn… — Aishah Madadiy Copy Share Image
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