Quotes About Insensitivity

With every day that passes, David Blunkett becomes more insensitive in his language and more intemperate in his actions.

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

When he was thirteen, he used an anti-Semitic epithet to describe a Jewish friend. Thinking of the moment more than seven decades later, Bush volunteered the story and cried, shaken by guilt over a remark made in the 1930s. He shook his head in wonder at his own insensitivity. "Never forgotten it. Never forgotten it." (The classmate remained a Bush friend and supporter for many years.)

I just want you to know that it makes me feel like shit to do this." "And Jonah paused," Michael told me. "And then he said to me, no joke, he said, 'You know, I really don't care how you feel.'" Michael shook his head. "It was icy.

Their lack of imagination makes them cruel.

Children are brutal and have no malice, which makes everything they say horribly cutting.

I remained, and went on with my dinner. I believe I was considered brutally callous. However, I did not eat much.

But he heard the words as he might have heard the buzzing of a fly.

Compounding the horror, German officials committed an act of staggering insensitivity: they struck a commemorative medal with a depiction of the sinking ship on one side and on the other a smiling skeleton under the inscription "Business above all.

Intuitive predictions are almost completely insensitive to the actual predictive quality of the evidence.

WYSIATI, which stands for what you see is all there is. System 1 is radically insensitive to both the quality and the quantity of the information that gives rise to impressions and intuitions.

Intentionally rude and vulgar, he took pleasure in the discomfort of others.

I care not for your envy, or your hypocrisy, or even for your human nature.

Arthur Dent, you are not merely a cruel and heartless man, you are also staggeringly tactless.

She's very selfish. Not exactly self-centered, but totally indifferent to everyone and everything. Don't you agree?' 'I don't think that's possible,' said Mr Satterthwaite, slowly. 'I mean everyone's interest must go somewhere.

Haven't I proved to you yet that I don't give a damn about your missing parts?

I'm never surprised by the insensitivity of 'The New York Times' editorial board.

Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times.

It was [John Gardner's] conviction that if the words in the story were blurred because of the author's insensitivity, carelessness, or sentimentality, then the story suffered from a tremendous handicap. But there was something even worse and something that must be avoided at all costs: if the words and the sentiments were dishonest, the author was faking it, writing about things he didn't care about or believe in, then nobody could ever care anything about it.

Comfort is often a code word for the right to be unaware.

Pero era evidente que le había dolido. Le había dolido antes, de la peor manera, al advertir que el dejaría de existir mientras el universo seguiría girando igual que siempre, intacto e insensible.

Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.

Usually, I take a hike for a while after submitting a column to Townhall. Too much of my insensitivity can cause emotional problems among proggies, and I am, after all, a compassionate man.

It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.