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Quotes About Apathetic

Narcissism, justly lamented for doing so much damage, especially within the family unit, could also work miracles, as when a fundamentally apathetic collection of illiterates gets wind that they appear as characters in a book and transforms overnight into a bunch of rabbinical scholars.
~ Joshua Ferris
I don't really get into that whole red-blue-conservative-liberal because I can't tell them apart. They all seem inept. So, for me, it's not something I focus on at all. I probably should be more political than I am. I just don't care.
~ Eric Church
I would never call myself anti-football. I think I'm pro-information, pro-people making informed individual choices, pro-health, so for that reason, personally, I'm apathetic towards football. But at the same time, I think we can retain some civility, and I understand why people support and love it.
~ Chris Borland
Deep down inside, I am lazy.
~ James May
He have a modified shrug that tilted one shoulder forward,
~ Faith Hunter
Still water wasn't cruel and wasn't kind. It didn't care whether you swam or drowned.
~ Frances Hardinge
I would apologize for my rudeness, if I had any manners. Happily, I don't.
~ Tamora Pierce
I instantly regretted it. Cynicism is a decadent pose, a façade of apathetic ennui that's antithetical to the committed idealism of the true internationalist. But when you're a private eye, it sort of gets to be a habit.
~ Steve Hockensmith
How could she ever understand that there isn't any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?
~ Bret Easton Ellis
The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other generation could emulate it without a smirk. This has created an apathetic generation in the West, with young people no longer distinguishing between the old order and the new.
~ Romola Garai
I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood.
~ Cass Elliot
I don't think we're basically a revolutionary country. We have too large a middle class. The middle class tends to be apathetic. An apathetic middle class gives stability to a system. They never get carried away strongly, one way or the other. Maybe we'll have riots, maybe we'll have shootings. Maybe we'll have uprisings as the farmers did in Iowa. But you won't have revolution.
~ Studs Terkel
Enthusiasm isn't really my thing.
~ Susan Juby
Most people, however, didn't take a position either way. They just wanted to disappear into the pleasantries of their lives. As long as when bad thing happened, they happened somewhere else, to someone they didn't know, it was not their problem.
~ Neal Shusterman
One of the failures of Democracy is that the common vote guarantees a common leader who then leads us to a common apathetic predictability!
~ Charles Bukowski
From my travels around the country, I've noticed that the GOP has two distinct but related problems with women voters. First, many GOP-leaning women are apathetic. They may have previously voted with Republicans, but they've become disenchanted or perhaps have just disengaged.
~ Carly Fiorina
Rip van Winkle was lazy.
~ Robert H. Gurney
Why the hell do you care?" With a shrug, Mayhem replied, "I don't have anything better to do. And I haven't been allowed to watch TV for how long? Your drama is going to be my new favorite show.
~ J.R. Ward
You're probably the most boring teenager in the world.
~ Nicholas Sparks
How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!
~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
the crisis of democracy" as when normally passive and apathetic populations become organized and seek to enter the political arena to pursue their interests and demands, threatening stability and order.
~ Noam Chomsky
Satan whispers in our ears that it's not the same, that Paul's gospel was somehow infused with apostolic superpowers, and that our high-tech, Westernized teenagers are somehow immune to the power of the gospel. He tells us they're too spoiled, too apathetic and too distracted for the gospel to get through to them.
~ Greg Stier
He never really cared too much about mechanical things.
~ Walter Isaacson
The two are unrelated. I'm not into turtles or space stuff.
~ Harry Connick, Jr.