Quotes About Dispassionate

Nature is neutral.

The notion that scientists are dispassionate - first of all, that's wrong. Scientists are extremely passionate.

There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.

In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, for knowledge, and even beauty is only a vein sticking up for appearances as though one were anxious about the cut of ones clothes in a community of blind men.

We have more than enough people to remind us of that, to give us dispassionate evaluations of our mediocrity.

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

Nothing is more relentless or as dispassionate as time

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent.

the sun is as dispassionate as the hand of a man who greets you with his mind on other things.

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

A perfect type of the strongly masculine, unmarred by dissipation, or brutal or degrading passions. For, though Tarzan of the Apes was a killer of men and of beasts, he killed as the hunter kills, dispassionately, except on those rare occasions when he had killed for hate—though not the brooding, malevolent hate which marks the features of its own with hideous lines.

We take dispassionate view of our investments. Does it mean that we are looking out to monetise the investment? That is not correct. But if we get an offer that we cannot refuse, as I say, then it is not that we are not, that we will still hold on to the investment.

I did a quick injury check on my organs and bones. The routine was familiar, one I paced my way through every other morning as I went from dispassionately watching my body heal to wondering if this time, I might have pushed things too far.

One hundred and thirteen seconds." "I am in extreme dislike ..." Gasp. "... of this process at the present moment." Gasp. "And also, of you ..." Gasp. "... in a dispassionate sort of way." Madden raises an eyebrow. "Methinks the lady doth protest too much." "Methinks you just like annoying me in my bathing suit. Admit it, you couldn't do this." "Wanna bet?

It's nothing personal, the universe might say.

since dispassionate self-knowledge is not a quality held in much esteem by the majority of the human race

I'm an economic human without any likes or dislikes!

When I concentrate, my face is deadpan and I can see there is a coldness there - when I'm making business decisions I know I can be quite dispassionate.

Im.' The monosyllable was heavy with contempt. ''E's a twat.' 'Is he?' 'Yeah, 'e is. Ask Kieran.' She gave the impression that she and Kieran stood together, sane, dispassionate observers of the idiots populating Lula's world.

Realistic. Dispassionate. Overall he figured there was a good chance of success. Either Karel would let it go, or he wouldn't, multiplied by either he was close by, or he wasn't. Two coin tosses in a row. Disaster priced at four to one, success at four to three. Numbers didn't lie. No cognitive bias.

Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look.

When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world.

I am not a rabid partisan.

That's how real men settle their differences, through reasoned discussion and a dispassionate analysis. He farted as I reached the inner door, a sign, I decided, of his respect. Alexander