Top 100 Quotes About Being Unaffected
#1. Because if he looked like he was unaffected by her smile, then she would not realize that, in actuality, he was in an utter panic because somewhere deep down inside he'd realized that his life had just changed forever.
Julia Quinn
#2. No celebrity bullshit,no self promotion,an amazingly gifted player who remained an unaffected human being
Roy Keane
#3. The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.
Hugh Blair
#4. I shrug, trying to seem cool and unaffected. "Might look a bit too 'Putin' on the horse." He
Emma Chase
#5. Happiness is not a science, an art or an outcome. It can't be qualified, procured or consumed. It's not invented, but comes naturally made from mud, honeysuckle, pitted olives, and doting grand dads ... it's what we are when we are utterly ourselves in unaffected ease.
Karen Maezen Miller
#7. Besides, tomorrow everything would look different. The day always came with more than mere light. However frayed your emotions, it was impossible to be wholly unaffected by the day's new beginnings.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#8. My children are unaffected by me being an actress because that's the way I like to keep it. I love the fact that they are so innocent about my star status. Sometimes, they come running to me and say, 'Mom, you are on TV.'
Madhuri Dixit
#9. He was in her presence. Nothing else mattered. Except, of course, acting unaffected by her.
Wes Demott
#11. No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
William James
#12. Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
Vernon Howard
#13. Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
Jane Austen
#14. His features were taught, unaffected by my expression. If this is really it ... if you're really done with me ... will you let me hold you tonight?
Jamie McGuire
#15. He willed his body to remain unaffected. Sabin would fuss if Strider sported a hard-on around his precious. And, of course, "fuss" meant Strider would find his intestines wrapped around his neck, breathing a thing of the past.
Gena Showalter
#16. He thinks my hair smells like spring rain. I'm really trying to remain stoic and unaffected. I remind myself that I don't like poetic language. I don't like poetry. I don't even like people who like poetry.
But I'm not dead inside either.
Nicola Yoon
#17. The depravity which sin has produced in human nature extends to the whole of it. There is no part of man's nature which is unaffected by it. Man's nature is all of a piece, and what affects it at all affects it altogether
James Denney
#18. Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.
Noah Webster
#19. Dreams are more original than images we see in the media, and are surprisingly unaffected by media. For example, the average person watches several hours of television per day, yet dreams are rarely about shows we have watched or news of the day.
Charles McPhee
#20. People don't necessarily take power from you for themselves. It just means they are operating at a lower attention level and you got pulled down by it. You are not sufficiently strong enough to be with someone and be unaffected.
Frederick Lenz
#21. You didn't have to-"
"You are at ease now," he said, as if unaffected by the magic I could still see rippling over his fingers. He slowly released my elbow. "And your trust is critical."
I frowned. "Critical to what?"
"To me, of course," he said lightly.
Anne Zoelle
#22. One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light; but the lamp is unaffected. The sun sheds its light on the wicked as well as on the virtuous.
Ramakrishna
#23. To know that you are neither the body nor mind, watch yourself steadily and live unaffected by your body and mind, completely aloof, as if you were dead. It means you have no vested interests, either in the body or in the mind.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#24. You can choose not to be interested in politics, but you can't choose to be unaffected by it
Penny Wong
#25. Like the pagans of old, unaffected by climate, the British were now dancing around a giant phallus. Unlike the pagans theirs was a sterile phallus, disarmed by condoms and pills - the first heathen sexual cult to be based around sterility rather than fertility.
Peter Hitchens
#26. Nirvana is a state of perpetual bliss and ecstasy, unaffected by the transient ups and downs of its own creations.
Frederick Lenz
#27. With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
Jane Austen
#28. Faeries are unaffected by alcohol, but much to her surprise - and the faeries' undoing - they get very, very drunk on carbonation. Using copious amounts of Coke, she was able to discover a single faerie's true name.
Kiersten White
#29. For to be unaffected was all that a pretty girl could want to make her mind as captivating as her person.
Jane Austen
#30. The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.
Ouida
#31. We're screwed," Arriane said, kicking a cloud in frustration. She glared at its wispy tendrils, which ambled eastward, unaffected. "That's never as satisfying as I think it's going to be.
Lauren Kate
#32. No one goes unaffected by the aftereffects of war. How we embrace this truth shall determine our path into the future.
Lawrence Winters
#33. The validity of mathematical propositions is independent of the actual world-the world of existing subject-matters-is logically prior to it, and would remain unaffected were it to vanish from being. Mathematical propositions, if true, are eternal verities.
Cassius Jackson Keyser
#34. The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
Maria Edgeworth
#35. An author cannot of course remain wholly unaffected by his experience, but the ways in which a story-germ uses the soil of experience are extremely complex, and attempts to define the process are at best guesses from evidence that is inadequate and ambiguous.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#36. Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, "God told me ... " As they make their way through the world, they bear wordless, prophetic witness.
Brennan Manning
#37. Who needs a blue sky when he's unhappy? Robert was right. The sky whether grey or blue, is cold and unemotional, and ultimately even the sun is only a fireball that, unaffected by everything going on here below on Earth, simply spews in masses of magma into space.
Nicolas Barreau
#38. Weird noises: Happen in the wee hours.
Me, unaffected: The only supernatural and ominous force in this place is me and I was here first, so whatever and whoever you are you need to go.
Unknown
#39. From being a female sunk below reproach Sophy became rapidly an unconventional girl whose unaffected manners were refreshing in an age of simpers and high flights.
Georgette Heyer
#40. I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.
Bill Eppridge
#41. Working for Spider was difficult. He was reasonable, but only when circumstances permitted; understanding of difficulties, yet completely unaffected by them. And he expected impossible things in an impossible timeframe.
Ilona Andrews
#42. Just like the submarines, deep men are also unaffected by the storms!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#43. People should remain unaffected by what others may say. A true man is one who overcomes the ups and downs of life with fortitude. One should not recoil before reverses of fortunes. One should bravely face them and overcome them.
Sathya Sai Baba
#44. like how a lotus is unaffected by dewdrops on lotus leaves, don't get affected by situations of life. Develop that secretion in you; develop that knowledge - vidya
Sukhabodhananda
#45. No man can concentrate his attention upon evil, or even upon the idea of evil, and remain unaffected. To be more against the devil than for God is exceedingly dangerous.
Aldous Huxley
#46. People are unhappy because they don't understand life; by happy, I mean complete, aware, conscious, poignant, caring, loving, unaffected, cosmic, simplistic, humble, excited, passive - everything. You are everything.
Frederick Lenz
#47. Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self as undifferentiated awareness, unaffected by time, past, present or future, and enter Peace.
Adi Shankara
#48. Internal growth and development were not entirely unaffected by my external environment. No amount of escapism, through either the physical or the mental outlets, could cushion me from the reality of what was taking place.
Sara Niles
#49. I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.
Miranda Otto
#50. The best ingredients for likeableness are a happy expression of countenance, an unaffected manner, and a sympathetic attitude.
Emily Post
#51. Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries.
Norman Borlaug
#52. The mix of soft-focus glamour,Mills and Boon romance and the inevitable feel-good ending is here, but what marks these films is an authentic core.Genuine, unaffected moments, long absent from 70mm movie content, are back.
Anupama Chopra
#53. The unchangeable can only be realised in silence. Once realised,
it will deeply affect the changeable, itself remaining unaffected.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#54. Paul's prayer is the product of his passion for people. His unaffected fervency in prayer is not whipped-up emotionalism but the overflow of his love for brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus.
Alexander Strauch
#55. There is an uncalculating, unaffected, unbound excitement in us when the Spirit is given freedom to express Himself through us.
Lloyd John Ogilvie
#56. Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.
Pema Chodron
#57. Of all the judgments that we pass in life, none is as important as the one we pass on ourselves, for that judgment touches the very center of our existence. ... No significant aspect of our thinking, motivation, feelings, or behavior is unaffected by our self-evaluation ... .
Melody Beattie
#58. outshines little Elizabeth Taylor as Velvet. The child is completely natural and unaffected, with a very sweet expressive face and the most beautiful soft blue eyes I've seen on the screen in a long time" (quoted in Haggerty, 2011). Taylor remained contracted to MGM for the next
Ellis Cashmore
#59. Enlightenment just means that you don't have a structural self. It means you've flipped through the gradated realities. Nothing binds, nothing clings to you. You're unaffected by everything.
Frederick Lenz
#60. Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#61. The memory of anyone one had truly loved stayed distinct always and with a special fragrance, quite unaffected by the years. And the memory of one's deepest friendships had a touch of the same magic. But
C.P. Snow
#62. 33,3% of the mice used in this experiment were cured by the test drug; 33,3% of the population were unaffected by the drug and remained in a moribund condition; the third mouse got away.
Erwin Neter
#63. Arms crossed over his chest,leaning against the wall that led to the back of the business,Nick Rixey appeared for all the world to be nonchalant and unaffected.
Laura Kaye
#64. Climb up the stairs cheerfully, climb down the stairs cheerfully! Let your mind is unaffected by the ups and downs of life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#65. A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may be learning not to live but to reason ... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.
Samuel Johnson
#66. In meeting Betty Jo he had learned that there was a large substratum of society that was totally unaffected by this middle-class prototype, that a huge and indifferent mass of persons had virtually no ambitions and no values whatever.
Walter Tevis
#67. Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Mahatma Gandhi
#68. Apparently unaffected, she rose. "Yeah, you're probably right. I should be going." She feigned a yawn. "You've gotta head back to work and I've gotta head to jail. Big night for me. I'm planning to shiv someone for a bar of soap.
Kresley Cole
#69. For however much the Gateses might give away, their daily life remains, by and large, unaffected. They remain, in spite of this enormous donation, one of the wealthiest couples in the world. Mother Teresa, on the other hand, gave up everything to serve the poorest of the poor. Pinker
Gary A. Anderson
#70. The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.
Mahatma Gandhi
#71. When a person is as happy as she was that summer, it is hard for others to be unaffected, and after a time the atmosphere she created began to have its effect on all in the house.
Winston Graham
#72. I lived among the Japanese, and saw their mode of living, in regions unaffected by European contact.
Isabella Bird
#73. A person is not some private entity traveling unaffected through time and space as if sealed off from the rest of the world by some thick shell.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#74. I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.
Faith Hill
#75. Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.
W. Somerset Maugham
#76. Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.
Gene Wolfe
#77. The volume exploded when Travis appeared in a doorway across the room. He made his entrance, shirtless, relaxed and unaffected. He strolled into the center of the circle as if he were showing up to another day at work.
Jamie McGuire
#78. Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leaves a large part of the personality unaffected by the trauma.
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
#79. When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your way, you can enjoy them. But if pain and misfortune befall you, you can rise above them and remain unaffected.
Frederick Lenz
#80. The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our awe and our loyalty.
Dennis Lehane
#81. Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#82. You must be a Lotus, unfolding its petals when the Sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
#83. A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.
Mark Kurlansky
#84. His mind scolded him for his stupidity and urged him to forget her but his heart had no justifications for its stand. It remained unmoved, its solidarity unaffected, its arrogance still holding.
Faraaz Kazi
#85. Pursing my lips, I strive to appear unaffected by his touch. He is so artful at diverting me from anything painful, or anything he doesn't want to address. And you let him, my subconscious pipes up unhelpfully, gazing over her copy of Jane Eyre.
E.L. James
#86. How am I supposed to look unaffected and asexual with all this unfair fuckery happening?
Qwen Salsbury
#87. Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
Benjamin Franklin
#88. The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straightforward and honest. It hasn't got all of this facade, this veneer of what we call adult culture. It's rather simple, rather childish It is direct and free.
Milton H. Erickson
#89. God is unlimited and infinite with respect to time; He is eternal. God is unlimited and unaffected by space; He is present everywhere at the same time.
David Jeremiah
#90. Louisville, Colorado, which was just voted by CNN and Money magazine as the best place to live, is a veritable Whitopia that is unaffected by the housing crisis and even the severe recession. You look at the best places to live, according to Money's 2009 list, and 9 of the 10 are Whitopias.
Richard Benjamin
#91. The only people who can have normal are the ones unaffected by all the fucked-up shit that happens around them. - Curran
Ilona Andrews
#92. I've never had a musical career. So I think it's been unaffected. I play the accordion. In terms of thinking of it as a musical career, I think it's sort of like calling yourself an astronaut because you have a shiny suit.
Daniel Handler
#93. Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true.
Sathya Sai Baba
#94. I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected.
Kevin Spacey
#95. Alyosha brought with him something his father had never known before: a complete absence of contempt for him and a consistent kindness, a perfectly natural, unaffected devotion to the old man who deserved so little.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#96. If certain bacteria, fungi, or algae inch across something made of copper, they absorb copper atoms, which disrupt their metabolism (human cells are unaffected). The microbes choke and die after a few hours.
Sam Kean
#97. The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#98. The voice of the Soul can be heard within the silence of the unaffected mind. Listen.
Ka Chinery
#99. There lived a poet in the lands of gold,
Wrote along poems unaffected by warmth or cold,
His words spoke truth and pen's stroke was bold,
His only motive: lives to mould
Adhish Mazumder
#100. Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. That statement, from science, holds an enormous and powerful insight. It means that everyone sees a different truth because everyone is creating what they see.
Neale Donald Walsch
