Indifferent Quotes
467 Indifferent quotes by 377 unique authors
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People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to…
— John Irving
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He stared at her fists and at her face and said with upset incredulity, "You promised me you would forgive me-" "Forgive you,"Tatiana hissed through…
— Paullina Simons
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There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our…
— Muriel Barbery
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Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are…
— Christopher Hitchens
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So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.
— Suzanne Collins
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It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as…
— Tove Jansson
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Yes. The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. That is why few people find God. They go to church and talk about…
— Christopher Pike
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So you want to know all about me. Who I am. What chance meeting of brush and canvas painted the face you see? What made…
— Ellen Hopkins
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What then is the source of my errors? They are owing simply to the fact that, since the will extends further than the intellect, I…
— Rene Descartes
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The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.
— Josephine Winslow Johnson
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Alice was scrutinizing my boring jeans-and-a-T-shirt outfit in a way that made me self-conscious. Probably plotting another makeover. I sighed. My indifferent attitude to fashion…
— Stephenie Meyer
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So You Want to Know All about her. Who she really is. (Was?) Why she swerved off the high road. Hard left to nowhere, recklessly…
— Ellen Hopkins
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Zakath's face grew thoughtful. "You know something, Garion?" he said. "Man thinks he owns the world, but we share it with all sorts of creatures…
— David Eddings
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Silence fell between the four of them as they looked up at the sky. There was no sign of movement, the stars stared back, unblinking,…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Margaret found that the indifferent, careless conversations of one who, however kind, was not too warm and anxious a sympathizer, did her good.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they…
— Oscar Wilde
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One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is the sorrow inherent…
— Aldous Huxley
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He thought of the jungle, already regrowing around him to cover the scars they had created. He thought of the tiger, killing to eat. Was…
— Karl Marlantes
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Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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