Quotes About Aloofness

Estar vivo é uma grossa indiferença irradiante.

Cardan is wearing a high jewelled collar of jet on a stiff black doublet. Over the top of his pointed ears are knifelike caps of gold, matching the gold along his cheekbones. His expression is remote.

After all, a forgivable shyness and social discomfort could easily be mistaken for their more aggressive counterparts: aloofness and hostility.

The noble gases, which reside on the East Coast of the periodic table, are its aristocrats - detached and aloof, never bothering to interact with the rabble of common elements that make up the vast majority of the world.

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.

When we drift from a deep, intimate companionship with God, we become negative, critical, judgmental and recalcitrant. We resist the repeated overtures of God's love. Neutrality and detached aloofness eventually result. We become respectably unresponsive. It happens to all of us at times. The telltale signs are equivocation, vacillation and pretense.

But one of the saddest, most deprecating misuses of power is the withholding of love, affirmation, and delight from other people. Few things keep people in line with our wishes more than an attitude of reserve or aloofness. It is paradoxical that in the power struggle of relationships, the one who loves and encourages the least, gains the most power. This puts people on edge, keeps them guessing, and plays on their need for assurance about their worth.

I don't get attached… There's no place for it in my world.

As long as it's not me, I'll be cool.

The woman had her nose so far up in the air that she was in danger of drowning in a rainstorm.

But strange and marvelous as she was, a wisp of silk in a forest of black wool, she was not at all the fragile creature one would ever have her seem. In many ways she was as cool and competent as Henry; tough-minded and solitary in her habits, and in many ways as aloof .

I don't want to get involved" has become our national motto. -Mike McIntyre

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

He liked such sharpness, for there was nothing in him that had any blood you might spill.

She spent a fortune on clothes and jewelry, more than you would expect from a person with her salary. She got a new secretary every other year because she didn't want anyone to get too close. She was aloof, distant, always tough, but she never suspected me because I kept my distance.

But it was not kindness he lacked; it was interest. His gaze passed over her as if she were not there.

that distant look characteristic of people who do not wish to be agreeable...

They had long ago found out that one could not be an owner unless one were cold.

pococurantism,

It is not aloofness, superiority. It's a protection. Who in this ravaged battlefield doesn't want to gather close her comrades?

Sometimes I just don't care, and everything comes.

It is not aloofness, superiority. It's a protection. Who in this ravaged battlefield doesn't want to gather close her comrades?

that arctic blast you're feeling? it's the chill coming off my cold shoulder

moments later, but she stayed far away from