Indifferent Quotes

If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune, we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.

It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.

Stores can be indifferent to something new.

If you should find yourself in a place that is indifferent to you and there is someone there that your spirit stretches to, then that person is kin.

Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty.

I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.

I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.

It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.

Because we are free, we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere.

People don’t care enough. They don’t get worked up enough. They don’t get angry enough. They don’t get passionate enough. I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.

[on the theory of the firm] It is exactly analogous to the analysis of the reactions of a consumer by means of indifferent curves. Indeed, a consumer is merely a 'firm' whose product is 'utility.'

The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent--I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.

The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

We all have our prayer-wheels which we set up on the steppes. The indifferent winds come and carry most of them away to gasp out their little lives in the desert, for few reach heaven.

In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful.

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.

The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it. Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood.

People in the upper classes can just as easily be indifferent to their own body, or treat themselves as badly, as people who don't have the money. There are always differences among differences.

The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom. When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies. Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

Looking backward at what has been lost, I feel sad, then indifferent, and at last relieved.

Being an actor, when you sign onto a project - whether it's good, bad, or indifferent - you kind of fall in love with it. You fall in love with the experience, you fall in love with the memories.

It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.

Great is the rose Infected by the tomb, Yet burgeoning Indifferent to death.

Love breeds tolerance, tolerance breeds peace. ... Love cannot be indifferent. It does not know how.

There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.

You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, 'Of course they like it. They should like it.'

A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.

I'm utterly indifferent to Kate Middleton's baby.

Astounded—and indifferent—for he was a man who, in effect, had no ‘day before’.

We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals we disseminate widely in our environment?

Good, bad or indifferent, I'm transparent with my opinions and what I believe. I just don't think in politics you can be that way.

In fact, there's an entire universe out there that's pretty much indifferent to struggles that big, no matter how serious they've been in your life.

It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.

Why does not the brain adapt to repeated exposure and become indifferent, instead of satisfied?

That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.

In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.

I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious; The one I left to silence, the other to reproach: God send me over all such friends victorious.

As Nature is always careless and indifferent Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty.

You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.

Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and long-dead kings. I appear to have conjured the spirit of a banker.

Nigerian nun Bernadette Duru says the African church hierarchy is indifferent to people in rural areas.

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.

I have been allowed to inhabit different shades of human nature and different colours of truth indifferent circumstances.

The beliefs that we use to define our own individuality, what makes us unique - good, bad, or indifferent - from other individuals.

In politics I am growing indifferent - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home

This is entertainment, not Judaism, I think the general public will celebrate this, but the religious public will be indifferent. (on Madonna's visit to Israel)