Indifferent Quotes - Page 13

• there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants.

  Charles A. Reich

  Powerful, Growing, Reason

  charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

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• Although there is nothing so bad for conscience as trifling, there is nothing so good for conscience as trifles. Its certain discipline and development are related to the smallest things. Conscience, like gravitation, takes hold of atoms. Nothing is morally indifferent. Conscience must reign in manners as well as morals, in amusements as well as work. He only who is "faithful in that which is least" is dependable in all the world.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Discipline, Faithful, Amusement

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Work, Men

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• An inconstant woman is one who is no longer in love; a false woman is one who is already in love with another person; a fickle woman is she who neither knows whom she loves nor whether she loves or not; and the indifferent woman, one who does not love at all.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Women, Doe, Fickle

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• When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Children, People, May

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.85

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• When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.

  George Eliot

  Girl, Twenties, Stones

  George Eliot (2012). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.308, Courier Corporation

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• Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

  Richard Levins

  Suffering, Scholarship, Immoral

  Richard Lewontin, Richard Levins (2007). “Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on the Coevolution of Nature and Society”, p.369, NYU Press

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• Let the risen Jesus enter your life, welcome him as a friend, with trust: he is life! If up till now you have kept him at a distance, step forward. He will receive you with open arms. If you have been indifferent, take a risk: you won’t be disappointed. If following him seems difficult, don’t be afraid, trust him, be confident that he is close to you, he is with you and he will give you the peace you are looking for and the strength to live as he would have you do.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Distance, Giving

  Pope Francis (2016). “The Joy of Discipleship: Reflections from Pope Francis on Walking with Christ”, p.33, Loyola Press

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• O, if my husband could only love me even a little and not seem to be perfectly indifferent to any sensation of that kind... O my poor aching heart when shall it rest its burden only on the Lord.

  Emmeline B. Wells

  Husband, Heart, Littles

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• Man finally knows that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the Universe, from which he emerged by accident.

  Jacques Monod

  Art, Philosophy, Men

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• The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is someone outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action.

  Winston Churchill

  Moving, Home, Independent

  Sir Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.114, A&C Black

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• Man enjoys living on the edge of his dreams and neglects the real things of the world which are so beautiful. The ignorant and indifferent destroy beautiful things merely by looking at the marble. Things that remake the soul of him who understands them.

  Auguste Rodin

  Beautiful, Dream, Real

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• Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now. And I'm much less likely to be indifferent. For me, indifference is the end of life.

  Simon Van Booy

  Taken, Thinking, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This is the woman who stopped the Stanford Prison Study. When I said it got out of control, I was the prison superintendent. I didn't know it was out of control. I was totally indifferent. She came down, saw that madhouse and said, "You know what, it's terrible what you're doing to those boys. They're not prisoners, they're not guards, they're boys, and you are responsible." And I ended the study the next day. The good news is I married her the next year.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Boys, Years, Next Day

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• Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.

  Jose Saramago

  Blessed, Night, Foul

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• Our band is very polarizing. There are people who absolutely can't stand us, and people who absolutely can't live without us. I'd rather spark those kind of polar-opposite feelings than have people be indifferent.

  Ben Gibbard

  Opposites, People, Feelings

  "The Meaning of Life". www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.

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• The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.

  Max Ernst

  Artist, Development, Phases

  Quoted in Saranne Alexandrian Surrealist Art (1970).

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• It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Perfect, Reputation, Easy

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• Each person is a graveyard of his thoughts. They are most beautiful for us in the moment of their birth; later we can often sense a deep pain that they leave us indifferent where earlier they enchanted us.

  Robert Musil

  Beautiful, Pain, Birth

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• Love breeds tolerance, tolerance breeds peace. ... Love cannot be indifferent. It does not know how.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Tolerance, Doe, Peace Love

  Neale Donald Walsch (2003). “Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, Hampton Roads Publishing Company Incorporated

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• Don't be indifferent when opportunity knocks at the door, just invite it in

  Joe Sacco

  Opportunity, Doors, Invites

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• The beliefs that we use to define our own individuality, what makes us unique - good, bad, or indifferent - from other individuals.

  Tony Robbins

  Unique, Individuality, Use

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.486, Simon and Schuster

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• As all my friends said, 'Linda, enjoy this time.' It wasn't enjoyable the first time because they're were too many questions. But I think I've lived a solid life. You can look at who I've been, good, bad or indifferent.

  Linda Blair

  Thinking, Looks, Firsts

  "Interview With the Exorcist's Linda Blair". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 17, 2000.

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• It must be confessed that it takes considerable skill to produce the best kind of lies. It is in the hands of first-class photographers only - and perhaps the indifferent ones - that photography can lie.

  Henry Peach Robinson

  Photography, Lying, Hands

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• A camera is wild in just about anybody's hands, therefore one must set limits. But cameras have a life of their own. Cameras care nothing about cults or isms. They are indifferent mechanical eyes, ready to devour anything in sight. They are lenses of the unlimited reproduction.

  Robert Smithson

  Eye, Sight, Hands

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.372, Univ of California Press

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