Quotes About Detached

This attempt at famine relief. We should do nothing to help. Let the peasants starve. The worse things are, the more the tsarist government is weakened." It was said quite calmly, without any anger or malice, in a detached, matter-of-fact voice.

Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.

I don't feel anything when I watch Shaquille O'Neal play. I don't feel anything coming off him.

I can be more cold than people would like me to be.

we imitate the detached generosity of God, then the trap of mimetic rivalries will never close over us.

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

As cold as any stone.

A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment.

I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social.

I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social.

You don't care enough to care.

Emotion isn't really what I felt . . . Living, one is so detached.

I'm a cold-hearted bastard. I'm insular, I'm jaded, a workaholic, I'm ruthless and I'm self-serving. I don't do forever, I rarely even do "I'll call you tomorrow". And just because I'm here now it does not mean if you ask me to stay I will.

We are fundamentally politically agnostic and an apolitical organization.

I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics.

I am not a political person, so I cannot comment on politics.

A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and talk about football would not be for him. He might take part but could not belong.

I have never seen any. He's as good as anyone I ever saw at what he does. But he never seems happy or sad or frightened or elated. He never, in the twenty-some years I've known him, here and there, has shown any sign of love or compassion. He's never been nervous. He's never been mad.

The moon, serene and detached in a cloudless sky, did what she could, though so far off, to help them in their quest; till her hour came and she sank earthwards reluctantly, and left them, and mystery once more held field and river.

Your intent is for the future, but your attention is in the present. As long as your attention is in the present, then your intent for the future will manifest, because the future is created in the present. You must accept the present as is. Accept the present and intend the future. The future is something you can always create through detached intention, but you should never struggle against the present.

Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.

I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars.

Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.

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 an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.