Quotes About Insouciance

#1. Though as a psychologist I like to think that nothing human is foreign to me, I admit to having been repeatedly flabbergasted by the insouciance, and sometimes relish, with which our ancestors carried out and witnessed unspeakable cruelties.

Steven Pinker

#2. I always thought there was something French about her, ever since the word 'insouciance' flitted across the surface of my mind the first time we met.

Jessica Pine

#3. To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass by the roadside is the flawless triumph of art.

Walt Whitman

#4. I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.

Charles Baudelaire

#5. She forced herself to relax her shoulders and affect a tone of bored insouciance that the Widow would have approved, and said, I shall need a map. And a pistol.

Donna Thorland

#6. Insouciance, he was edgy. Why didn't he ask why Strike was there? Or did

Robert Galbraith

#7. insouciance. But there's just something uniquely intimidating about

Ben Aaronovitch

#8. I would like [the working man] to give me back books and newspapers and theories. And I would like to give him back, in return, his old insouciance, and rich, original spontaneity and fullness of life.

D.H. Lawrence

#9. India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion
and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age

Jawaharlal Nehru

#10. Still, somehow, inexplicably, "man-hater" is a word tossed around with insouciance as if this was a real thing that did harm. Meanwhile we have no real word for men who kill women. Is the word just "men"?

Jessica Valenti

#11. I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.

Ogden Nash

#12. What I envy is not their skin but their insouciance. I envy the freedom to sin with only a little bit of consequence, to commit one selfish act and not have it mean the downfall of my entire people. Where indecency and mischief do not mean annihilation.

Kaitlyn Greenidge

#13. Jake shrugged, in the way that only nine-year-old children can manage
and usually male children at that, girls not being permitted the same kind of insouciance.

Marie Brennan

#14. Lucifer waits in the wings applying his makeup, ready to take center stage once his servants have finished entertaining us into insouciance

Dean Cavanagh

#15. It was borrowed time anyway - the whole upper tenth of a nation living with the insouciance of a grand duc and the casualness of chorus girls.

Howard Zinn

#16. When people honor each other, there is a trust established that leads to synergy, interdependence, and deep respect. Both parties make decisions and choices based on what is right, what is best, what is valued most highly.

Blaine Lee Pardoe

#17. We should have known.
maybe we wanted cotton candy luck. maybe we
believed. what trash.
we believed like dogs
believe.

Charles Bukowski

#18. Was ever book containing such vile matter so fairly bound? O that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous place!

William Shakespeare

#19. She's just trying to make sure Anthony gets a good meal - Antonio.

George W. Bush

#20. I told you guys ... don't stop believing.

Sebastian Vettel

#21. There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.

Amar Bose

#22. The truth has a strange way of following you, of coming up to you and making you listen to what it has to say.

Sandra Cisneros

#23. Auburn-Stache. Am I selfish?"
"I've never met a soul that wasn't. I've met a lot of people who don't bother wondering.

Leah Thomas