Indifferent Quotes

467 quotes by 377 authors

It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free peasant. . . . You… — Hilaire Belloc
The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent--I name no names. It takes all sorts… — Kenneth Grahame
The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it. — Camille Paglia
I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does… — Ivy Compton-Burnett
But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the… — Edmund Burke
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed. — Whitney M. Young
Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems of… — Jacques Monod
We have already noticed the difference in the attitude of a spectator and of an agent or participant. The former is indifferent to what is… — John Dewey
Many people have accused me of such ferocious cruelty that (they allege) I would like to kill again the man I have destroyed. Not only… — John Calvin
In politics I am growing indifferent - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home — Ulysses S. Grant
Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars? — Ernesto Sabato
My religion is truth, love and service to God and humanity. Every religion that has come into the world has brought the message of love… — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
True discernment means not only distinguishing the right from the wrong; it means distinguishing the primary from the secondary, the essential from the indifferent, and… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a… — John Herschel
It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one. — Sebastian Faulks
Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity. — Sergei Dovlatov
I, you know, am all over the place â€” every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent. I could not make, like… — Billy Wilder
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when… — Alec Waugh
To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which so beautifully adorns… — James Hutton
The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil. — William Dampier

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