Quotes About Being Aloof

#1. Being aloof, gruff, or stern never got anyone anywhere. Who wants to be treated like that? Certainly not you. And surely not the people you meet.

Wayne D. Dosick

#2. I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary.

Paul Newman

#3. I love Obama's calm and dignity. A lot of people confuse that with being aloof, but I know people that have held that job. It's a 24-hour barrage of information.

Stephen Stills

#4. To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its own pace more than other places that have to keep up with the progress.

Allen Toussaint

#5. I had no one else to call. Nobody needed me. I had constructed my life to make certain of it. I'd remained aloof in acting class, been too cool to give my phone number to people I met on the set. I hadn't wanted the complications of being nice.

Petrea Burchard

#6. Die each moment so that you can be new each moment.

Osho

#7. I was wondering - I mean - could there be some mistake? Because nobody called me and Scrubb, you know. It was we who asked to come here. You would not have called me unless I had been calling you.

C.S. Lewis

#8. There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.

C. G. Jung

#9. CHAPTER XV A FIT COMPANION, - FOR ME AND MY SISTERS

Anthony Trollope

#10. I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I'm so not that woman. I'm passionate. I love my girls, being with my girlfriends, getting involved with issues that affect other women and children who are suffering.

Annie Lennox

#11. I discovered the secret of writing - live in the present moment. Do not fantasize about possible response because you cannot know the future.

Erica Jong

#12. The wrong man could have brought it all crashing down," she told him. "A different man might have collapsed under the weight of the responsibility.

Julie Anne Long

#13. I went through so many phases because I moved schools a lot. I grew up primarily in Connecticut, but also here in L.A. for five years.

Mamie Gummer

#14. The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.

Greg Egan

#15. If the way you've been treating me is a mark of fondness, maybe you'd better take a fresh look at your interpersonal communication skills.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#16. The day is conscious of itself.

Rumi

#17. I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof

Ani DiFranco

#18. I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.

Trent Reznor

#19. The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.

Dean Koontz

#20. When you really need help, people will respond. Sincerity means dropping the image facade and showing a willingness to be vulnerable. Tell it the way it is, lumps and all. Don't worry if your presentation isn't perfect; ask from your heart. Keep it simple, and people will open up to you.

Jack Canfield

#21. And I think as soon as he came to like me he would sink into ordinariness, and if as soon as he came to love me I would find fault after fault

Sylvia Plath

#22. Parkour was never invented by anyone, it's always been here.

Sebastien Foucan

#23. At its core, every battle worth fighting is a spiritual battle. Those men were able to succeed only because they humbled themselves and entrusted the battle to God. But

Eric Metaxas