Quotes About Aloof

I'd always maintained an image so that people wouldn't approach me.

Meditation simply means a discipline that makes you capable of being aloof and detached from your mind. So even if the mind is sick, your consciousness is never sick. Even if your mind is going crazy, you are just witnessing it. Mind is only a machine. You are not.

The cool, lithe, cynical, and unconquered lord of the housetops.

Outwardly, other than her hair, she had not changed much. She was still more or less the same cool, aloof woman who garnered more respect than affection. On the inside, however, it had been impossible to return to the person she used to be.

Personally, I could have cared less.

I am at my best within my family fold. Outside, I am withdrawn, aloof and reserved.

I am quite shy and people think I'm aloof.

La strategia è la via del paradosso. Così, chi è abile, si mostri maldestro; chi è utile, si mostri inutile. Chi è affabile, si mostri scostante; chi è scostante, si mostri affabile.

supercilious stare.

The first half of the 1960s was the apogee of what might be termed the Age of Cool - as defined by that quality of being simultaneously with-it and disengaged, in control but nonchalant, knowing but ironically self-aware, and above all inscrutably undemonstrative.

Aloof, arrogant, and almost always right, Bekker had become a true Wolf.

The aloof Rosalena at his side had half shut her eyes, gazing through the lashes at Mercurio as he sang.

more than most of the young bucks at university, but Simon's somewhat aloof demeanor somehow fed the persona.

Unable to initiate a relationship, he remained aloof, hoping, as the poem says, that the young woman would make the first move: "You must come and talk to me . . ." He feels "a faint half hope and half regret." Such a mix of powerful emotions is not, of course, unusual for a young man coming of age. But Robert had to be told that he was not alone.

All dragons are special, my boy - and they have always been rare. Angry red dragons, aloof green dragons, wise gray dragons, evil black dragons...

Ah, happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay; but misery hides aloof, so we deem that misery there is none.

His face showed neither pleasure nor excitement.

The Word Lady: Most Often Used to Describe Someone You Wouldn't Want to Talk to for Even Five Minutes.

The general was almost exactly as Shan had imagined him: tall, aloof and with a mystifying Mewtish character, as if he continually guarded secrets.

She seemed to become more aloof, almost secretive. At times, her eyes would shine with a private passion. She would gaze off into the distance and her lips would drop open, very slightly.

The man had all the warmth, all the friendliness, of a pinecone.

THE SKY IS MORE IMPERSONAL than the sea.

So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me.

People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.