Quotes About Indifference

the only thing in nature that moved was the sun, terrible and metallic as it inched its way across that indifferent sky.

In life, you will always have 30 percent of people who love you, 30 percent who hate you and 30 percent who couldn't care less.

you will always have 30 percent of people who love you, 30 percent who hate you and 30 percent who couldn't care less." When I heard that, my entire

I've seen it in action repeatedly: no matter who you are, no matter what you do, no matter who your audience is: 30 percent will love it, 30 percent will hate it, and 30 percent won't care. Stick with the people who love you and don't spend a single second on the rest. Life will be better that way.

30 percent will love it, 30 percent will hate it, and 30 percent won't care.

In life, you will always have a third of people who love you, a third who hate you and a third who couldn't care less. - From an interview with Gabrielle Reese

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent--which attitude certainly has a great deal to support it. On the other hand, it is only because the world looks on his talent with such frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.

I could not but feel, in those sorrowful years, that this human indifference, concerning which I knew so much already, would be my portion on the day that the United States decided to murder its Negroes systematically instead of little by little and catch-as-catch-can.

Neither love nor terror makes one blind; indifference makes one blind.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious, is to be in a rage almost all the time. So that the first problem is how to control that rage so that it won't destroy you. Part of the rage is this: it isn't only what is happening to you, but it's what's happening all around you all of the time, in the face of the most extraordinary and criminal indifference, the indifference and ignorance of the most white people in this country.

If any thing connected with the hardness of the human heart could surprise us, it surely would be the indifference with which men live on, engrossed by their worldly objects, amid the sublime natural phenomena that so eloquently and unceasingly speak to their imaginations, affections, and judgments.

All that we can do with any spiritual discipline is produce within ourselves something of the silence, the humility, the detachment, the purity of heart and the indifference which are required if the inner self is to make some shy, unpredictable manifestation of his presence.11

Complete moral tolerance is possible only when men have become completely indifferent to each other—that is to say, when society is at an end.

There are some things which are so horrific that some people feel they can't do anything about it: that the natural, understandable response is to tune it out.

I barely pay attention to awards and nominations, and whether they are fair or unfair.

Death is not considerate, or fair.

A spoon does not know whether it enters a rich or poor man's mouth.

You know I have about the same interest in jewelry as I have in politics, horse racing, modern poetry, and women who need weird excitement – none.

Just because a jackass brays does not mean you have to pay attention.

What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.

Playing on Sky Sports doesn't really make a difference to me.

Well, I'm not a big sports fan.

I'm not much of a sports fan.

I've never really been worried about being in the spotlight. I could care less.