Quotes About Detached

Y en cambio, los gatos se comportan como si no les importases lo más mínimo. También hay personas así, ¿sabes?, ariscas, que no se dejan querer. Idgie era así

I have all the conditions for happiness, save happiness. The conditions are detached from one another.

I have no human feelings.

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

I'm sure everyone has a cool story behind how they got into Formula One, but, for me, Perth, you know, not only in Australia is it detached, but it's detached from the whole world.

I'd be the first to say that I'm a distant individual. I have a tendency to come across as being aloof and dismissive.

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

Of course, they didn't give names or dates, they spoke in what might be called abstract terms, but despite the seemingly detached presentation of their misfortunes, the conversation and the walk only sank deeper into a state of melancholy, to such a degree that after two hours they both felt as if they were suffocating.

While briefly serving on the Spelman board of trustees, he preferred to remain slightly detached and subtly enigmatic, never telegraphing his plans too far in advance.

As always, Rockefeller floated serenely above the bustle, pretending to be oblivious to any wrongdoing

An American constitution is not supposed to be immutable as in France, nor is it susceptible of modification by the ordinary powers of society as in England. It constitutes a detached whole, which, as it represents the determination of the whole people, is no less binding on the legislator than on the private citizen, but which may be altered by the will of the people in predetermined cases, according to established rules.

What happened to your face, Dagenham?' Fourmyle asked with detached curiosity. The death's-head smiled. 'And I thought I was famous. Radiation poisoning. I'm hot. Time was when they said Hotter than a pistol. Now they say Hotter than Dagenham.

Maybe I shud've let Mave have u, she wrote. A good time to practise detachment, Jared thought. Separate the emotions from the conversation. Treat it like information, because that's all this was. Information.

And Gallio, cared for none of those things.

I am a mother with kids in the public schools. People should know that. I'm not just some policy maker who's totally detached from the rest of the community.

I care nothing about American football.

Indeed, as some of the Protestant traditions recognize, the symbol of a cross per se can all too readily become a mere token or amulet leading to superstition and magical thinking. Even worse, when detached from its significance, it can and often has become a sign denoting allegiance to a cause that mocks the very One who died in that way — the cross of Constantine, the Crusaders, and the Ku Klux Klan.

She was not an affectionate child and had never cared much for any one

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.

Roose is a very cold, pragmatic guy, and he's a survivor. He makes choices based on that, and friendship goes out the window.

am discovering her pretenses. She is always smiling, gay, but underneath she feels unreal, remote, detached from experience. She acts as if she were asleep. She is trying to awaken by falling into bed with anyone who invites her.

I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.

The myth of the detached manipulator and compliant crowd has, since the Twenties, also been abundantly re-echoed by academic students of mass suasion.

I do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me.