Indifferent Quotes

People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.

To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love nothing, and above all to be utterly indifferent to the love and hate of others.

If an individual agrees with everybody, he lacks conviction; if he likes everybody and is everybody's friend, he is indifferent to one and all.

Think of life as a voyage. The truest liver of the truest life is like a voyager who, as he sails, is not indifferent to all the beauty of the sea around him.

Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity? Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all? Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul Wherein the Beast ravens in its own avidity?

I believe that God is with you, that there is a presence. I believe this God is for you. I don't think the universe is a cold, dead place that is indifferent.

A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.

I’m partial to the truth, Lo. Good, bad or indifferent. (Vane)

The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county.

I could not, as my father's daughter, remain indifferent to all that was going on.

The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.

When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.

The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries.

Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent

Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.

Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design.

If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.

Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent.

Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.

The truly wise are content to be last. They are, therefore, first. They are indifferent to themselves. They are, therefore self-confident.

[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

I don't like to write from a flat, cold position. You must like what you're doing very much or like the people -- either like them or hate them. You can't be indifferent.

Looking is not indifferent. There can never be any question of 'just looking'.

Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed.

I believe what I write to be the truth...every man who is not indifferent to the truth has a weakness for spreading it about.

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.

I thought you might need a ride.' 'The headmaster's office called me a car.' He shrugged, indifferent but amused. 'And here I am in a submarine.

INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.

Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world - good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.

I am an indifferent cook but I can make pie.

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.

I love being Charlie Daniels for good, bad, or indifferent.

I like my body when I have curves. We all come indifferent shapes and sizes, and this is something to celebrate.

It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering

I think a lot of that album ["Tonight" ] is still very good . . . the songs, but I think I was indifferent to the arrangements.

Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.

Be close enough to people so that you are indifferent to the material. And also have faith.

When we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to.

Bad roads and indifferent inns, ... the continual converse one is obliged to have with the vilest part of mankind - innkeepers, post-masters, and custom house officers.

There is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do.

Margaret found that the indifferent, careless conversations of one who, however kind, was not too warm and anxious a sympathizer, did her good.

The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference.

fear cannot exist when one is indifferent to life.

I am not indifferent to the appreciation of kind people. [The voters were] extremely kind in naming me the world's top public intellectual, a title to which I can never see myself as entitled.

I believe that we are conforming to the divine order and the will of Providence when we are doing even indifferent things that belong to our condition.