Top 38 Quotes About Aloofness
#1. Stories that pander to your every readerly desire and whim are like overly loyal dogs that live for the simple glow of your approval. I'm a cat person. I like a little aloofness in my pets and my writing.
Alden Bell
#2. Let us disperse from our aloofness and serve the weak who made us strong, and cleanse the country in which we live. Let us teach this miserable nation to smile and rejoice with heaven's bounty and glory of life and freedom.
Kahlil Gibran
#3. Two widely dissimilar races, whether equal or not, cannot peaceably coexist in the same territory until they are either uniformly mongrelised or cast in folkways of permanent and traditional personal aloofness.
H.P. Lovecraft
#4. The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.
Vida Dutton Scudder
#5. But although she interacted with so many people during the day, no one could actually say that they were close to her. There is an aloofness to the permanently heartbroken, a secrecy. There was something impenetrable about her. There was a door that she had closed, which no one could get in.
Heather O'Neill
#6. or perhaps because of, her natural aloofness and her ability to withdraw and view things without emotion. The fact that this extended to her own life, leaving her appearing cold and distant, was beside the point.
Rachel Abbott
#7. If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or a sense of superfluous aloofness from the world of real men who do the world's real work, then it has harmed that individual.
Theodore Roosevelt
#8. While aloofness might fascinate others and makes them respect you, it will never allow for intimacy and profound relationships.
John Duover
#9. I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who'd rather avoid them.
Rachel Hartman
#10. It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
Viktor E. Frankl
#11. God withholds blessing only in wisdom, never in spite or aloofness.
Elisabeth Elliot
#13. A thousand pieces of gold may hardly bring a moment's happiness, but a small favor can cause a lifetime's gratitude. Too much love can turn to enmity, while aloofness can produce joy.
Zicheng Hong
#14. No guy is ever gonna be like, 'Well, I'm not into her because she just doesn't seem into me!' That's never been a complaint for why a guy doesn't like a girl. Ever! That's an attractive thing, so always err on the side of aloofness.
Nikki Glaser
#15. There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.
Frederick Soddy
#16. The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.
Stephen Gardiner
#17. It is not aloofness, superiority. It's a protection. Who in this ravaged battlefield doesn't want to gather close her comrades?
Megan Abbott
#19. Every virtue can come with its own accompanying vice. The virtue of reticence can yield the vice of aloofness.
David Brooks
#20. Fame, or notoriety, whichever that special noise may be called when the world like a hound 'gives tongue' and announces that the quarry in some form of genius is at bay, is apt to increase its clamor in proportion to the aloofness of the pursued animal ...
Marie Corelli
#21. To say I removes a false impression of a Jovian aloofness.
Jerome Frank
#22. I get along with guys; most of my friends are guys. It's easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust.
Paris Hilton
#23. Transport drives me crazy. I find myself on this constant conveyor belt and the planes, buses, traffic jams, ugh.
Patrick Wolf
#24. At times she's thought of as an ice princess but ice, when exposed to warmth, melts.
Donna Lynn Hope
#25. What would you do, if you could do anything?
Sarah Dessen
#26. Feelings can only be hidden so long from those who really pay attention.
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Jamie Ford
#27. only those with something to hide ever answered question for question and tried to sound outraged to disguise their nervousness.
Hamilton Crane
#28. And thank you for not putting it in your book.
And fuck you for not putting it in your book.
Lynn Coady
#29. Everyone who has changed the course of human history, every last one was able to do so only because he was ready for his destiny. That's true of Moses and the Buddha, Napoleon and Bismarck. The wave that carries us, the star that guides us - we cannot choose it.
Hermann Hesse
#31. Unattached to man or matter,
You remain aloof and cold.
Mihai Eminescu
#32. No matter how big you get, it's still okay to cry because everybody's got a right to their own tears.
Jacqueline Woodson
#33. . . . what matters in combat is adaptability, boldness and maintaining A cool exterior, whilst penetrating your enemy's soul with An icy cold stare
- Diary of A Combat Fiend
Soke Behzad Ahmadi
#34. And I imagine that, though cold and haughty in her general demeanor, and even exacting in her requirements, she has strong affections for those who can reach them ...
Anne Bronte
#35. We humans have a tendency to see ourselves as completely different from other animals, and the way in which large segments of the public continue to reject the theory of evolution is just one symptom of that malaise.
Kenneth R. Miller
#37. Gabriel discourages emotional attachments the way most of us discourage door-to-door salesmen. They're inconvenient, intrusive, and liable to end up saddling you with something you never wanted in the first place, at a cost far higher than you wish to pay.
Kelley Armstrong
#38. Bucks, doe - thank God everything boils down to money, I always say."
"During mating season the doe constructs a bed for herself, and then she urinates all around the outside of it. That's how she gets her mate."
"So that's it," murmured Odette. "I was always peeing in the bed.
Lorrie Moore
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