Quotes About Nonchalance

#1. Big Tech's nonchalance about copyright violation tramples over people like my wife and me, who strive to make a living in the great tradition of the creative realm.

Peter Lerangis

#2. It was fine to be mocked or disliked on his own terms. But his sexual orientation was such a naked target, unfortified by nonchalance and lacking the benefit of being a persona he'd constructed. Gay Mark wasn't sheddable like Smart-Ass Mark or Bitter-About-the-Move Mark.

Lisa Henry

#3. Thanks to Granna, Werner and Walter had grown up to be highly functioning, productive citizens
but if you were to ask Walter, Werner had a far easier time of it and lived his life with the sanctified nonchalance of those who will do anything to avoid dissecting their souls.

Julia Glass

#4. There's no denying his resemblance to the Rodin bronze - the slender, effortless muscularity of youth, the extravagant nonchalance of it; that sense that beauty is in fact the natural human condition and not the rarest of mutations.

Michael Cunningham

#5. Parents sat gloomy and still, like rows of turnips in a grocer's box. Their little criminals sat with them, tapping LOLs on their phones, or milled in the yard outside stinking of Lynx and taut nonchalance. Solicitors strode in and out in a twist of slacks and briefcases.

Lisa McInerney

#6. The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.

Michael Lewis

#7. Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.

Earl Wilson

#8. What impresses me about Catholic mythology is partly its tasteless kitsch but mostly the airy nonchalance with which these people make up the details as they go along. It is just shamelessly invented.

Richard Dawkins

#9. When you have been often rejected, you become traumatized and develop a kind of apathy and nonchalance to being accepted.

Emmanuel Olawale

#10. It should be done with the same degree of alacrity and nonchalance that you would display in authorizing a highly intelligent trained bear to remove your appendix.

Daniel S. Greenberg

#11. For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado.

Mary McCarthy

#12. Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance?

Eugene B. Sledge

#13. One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance.

Sherry Turkle

#14. I plucked at my salt-stained shirt and tried to find an air of nonchalance as I prepared to introduce His Most Holy Pain in the Ass to Miss Elf Princess.

Kim Harrison

#15. We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create.

William Butler Yeats

#16. The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. Beauty is nonchalance.

Marty Rubin

#18. Tried be cheerful, tried be upbeat, tried not to let my feelings show, not to blame him, not to mind when day after day, week after week, his nonchalance eroded my heart. Sometimes, being an optimist was quite the fucking effort.

Kristan Higgins

#19. He spoke of both dancing and death with equal nonchalance, as though one carried as little significance as the other. It calmed her, hearing him talk that way.

Clive Barker

#20. In this age of 'whatever,' Americans are becoming slaves to the new tyranny of nonchalance. James Morris

George F. Will

#21. Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

Francoise Sagan

#22. The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.

Henry David Thoreau

#23. Someone has broken your heart. I knew there was something about you. That's it, isn't it?'
A little," Sara said, suddenly self-conscious.
I'm sorry.'
It happens." She shrugged, straining for nonchalance.
Maybe,' he said. 'But if it's your destiny, what can you do but accept it.

Jennifer Vandever

#24. Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.

Baldassare Castiglione

#25. Even Rudy stood completely erect, feigning nonchalance, tensing himself against the tension.

Markus Zusak

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

Ogden Nash

#27. Nonchalance, she could have told Argosy, does not pay.

Julie Anne Long

#28. Never had Dallas seen the Targon more pissed. There'd been none of his usual charm, none of his nonchalance. He simply hadn't liked other men looking at Bride. And when the Mckell had staked claim on her ... shit. Bastard was probably already dead.

Gena Showalter

#29. The nonchalance irritated her more because it was not assumed.

Margaret Landon

#30. One rather thick volume was titled Means of Execution Through the Ages, and was placed with an elegant balance of nonchalance and availability at the eye level of anyone entering the room. As threats went, it was nearly subliminal - and perhaps it was placed there for that very reason.

Jim Butcher

#31. Death and destruction are necessary to the health of the world, and therefore as natural, and lovable, as birth and life. Only priests and born cowards moan and weep over dying. Brave men face it with approving nonchalance.

Ragnar Redbeard

#32. Because even subversive sarcasm adds a cool-girl nonchalance, an updated, sharper version of the expectation that women be forever pleasant, even as we're eating shit.

Jessica Valenti

#33. He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.

H.W. Brands

#34. He adored competing but didn't want you to know he'd ever worked at it.

H.W. Brands

#35. What's the matter with her? [Jasper] asked Griffin.
Griffin shook his head. 'Nothing. She's just two personas struggling for dominance in one body.'
[Jasper] ... Poor little thing.

Kady Cross

#36. It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.

Alexandra Robbins

#37. Compassion only plagues those with hearts, much like a field of thorns only troubles those who bleed.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#38. The rain that falls wherever it pleases. I want to be that rain.

Marty Rubin

#39. Ah, today is not really a good day, but my afterthought suggests it is, since I have had the chance to learn that life cannot be exemplary all the time. It is good to be taken aback once in a while because only then, would I value the state of being nonchalant.

Aishah Madadiy

#40. MARIE [Alone, after apause.]
Whata bitch I am. I could stab myself. - Oh, what a world! Everything goes to hell anyhow, man and woman alike.

Georg Buchner

#41. Relax and be free. You don't have to prove anything.

Marty Rubin

#42. Dickens writes that one of his characters, listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.

Charles Dickens

#43. She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could wish.

Elizabeth Bowen

#44. What did you say, Arthur?"
"I said, how the hell did you get here?"
"I was a row of dots flowing randomly through the Universe. Have you met Thor? He makes thunder."
"Hello," said Arthur. "I expect that must be very interesting."
"Hi," said Thor, "it is.

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