Detached Quotes

173 quotes by 152 authors

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side. — Raymond Queneau
The kind of prayer I am talking about is a detached kind of prayer in which you are not looking for anything, just putting yourself… — Joseph Girzone
Often a successful problem-solver is one who creates a new context in which to view the problem. This can often be done by directing one's… — John Templeton
Money should never be separated from values. Detached from values it may indeed be the root of all evil. Linked effectively to social purpose it… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The detached observer's view is one window on the world. — Kenneth Lee Pike
A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep… — Ty Burrell
As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of going… — Loren Eiseley
I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person — Emile M. Cioran
Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
All have I overcome, all do I know. From all am I detached. All have I renounced. Wholly absorbed am I in ``the destruction of… — Gautama Buddha
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own… — Norman Vincent Peale
I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all. — Iain Pears
In order to travel far you have to be detached. — Ralph Ellison
Suppose that thou hast detached thyself from the natural unity... yet here there is this beautiful provision, that it is in thy power again to… — Marcus Aurelius
There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward.... I was wrapped in the cocoon of tennis early… — Arthur Ashe
Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible… — Joseph Conrad
He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's… — Ralph Fiennes
I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that… — Ralph Fiennes
Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they… — Val Kilmer
I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it. — Hugh Leonard

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