Indifferent famous quotes

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Nature #Survival #Indifferent

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

#Daughter #Father #Indifferent

Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Happiness #People #Indifferent

Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Happiness #Public Opinion #Indifferent

I love portraying the totally indifferent person.
-- Bob Newhart

#Indifferent #Portraying #Persons

You who are on the inside, don't condemn my lack of faith too quickly; you who are on the outside, don't be too quick to mock my overcredulity; you who are indifferent, don't be too quick to wax ironic about my perpetual hesitations.
-- Bruno Latour

#Ironic #Indifferent #Hesitation

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
-- Carl Sagan

#Existentialism #Benign #Indifferent

I am an indifferent cook, but I can make pie.
-- Caroline Leavitt

#Pie #Indifferent #Cooks

I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.
-- Colin Firth

#People #Good Work #Indifferent

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

#Speak #Indifferent

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
-- Elie Wiesel

#Sin #Silent #Indifferent

fear cannot exist when one is indifferent to life.
-- Evadne Price

#Fear #Indifference #Indifferent

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.
-- George Steiner

#Men #Apathy #Indifferent

It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.
-- George Washington

#Men #Good Man #Indifferent

Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom might destroy everything, an atom might save everything!
-- Gerard De Nerval

#Atoms #Might #Indifferent

Stores can be indifferent to something new.
-- Greg Ginn

#Something New #Stores #Indifferent

Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.
-- Jerome Bruner

#Stimulus #Indifferent

I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Hate #Indifferent

Good, bad, and indifferent - It takes all sorts to make a world.
-- Kenneth Grahame

#World #Indifferent

I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.
-- Marie Dressler

#Beautiful #Matter #Indifferent

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

#Rose #Indifferent

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

#World #Indifferent

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

#Men #Indifferent

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.
-- Oscar Wilde

#Relationship #Indifferent

It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again.
-- Parmenides

#Return #Indifferent

I'm utterly indifferent to Kate Middleton's baby.
-- Philippa Gregory

#Baby #Indifferent

Do not be afraid to go and to bring Christ into every area of life, to the fringes of society, even to those who seem farthest away, most indifferent.
-- Pope Francis

#Fringe #Christ #Indifferent

Reality is divinely indifferent.
-- Richard Bach

#Reality #Indifferent

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

#Kind #Mercy #Indifferent

Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.
-- Richard Levins

#Suffering #Scholarship #Indifferent

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

#Providence #Indifferent

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

#Cynical #Indifferent #Hardest

Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work.
-- Shelley Winters

#Matter #Standards #Indifferent

True discernment means not only distinguishing the right from the wrong; it means distinguishing the primary from the secondary, the essential from the indifferent, and the permanent from the transient. And, yes, it means distinguishing between the good and the better, and even between the better and the best.
-- Sinclair B. Ferguson

#Mean #Essentials #Indifferent

The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent
-- Stanley Kubrick

#Facts #Indifferent #Universe

The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county.
-- Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#People #Welfare #Indifferent

I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.
-- Vagit Alekperov

#Ambition #Indifferent

Capitalistic Anarchism ? Oh, yes, if you choose to call it so. Names are indifferent to me; I am not afraid of bugaboos. Let it be so, then, capitalistic Anarchism.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre

#Names #Indifferent #Anarchism

A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
-- Wole Soyinka

#Perspective #Indifferent #Humans

Religion helps you relate with the universe. Buddha was indifferent to the concept of god yet he gave us values.
-- Asghar Ali Engineer

#Helping #Indifferent #Relate

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.
-- Conor Cruise O'Brien

#Being There #Human Nature #Indifferent

In a best-selling book, 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs (reprinted nine times by 1935), a pair of consumer-advocate authors complained that American citizens had become test animals for chemical industries that were indifferent to their customers' well-being. The government, they added bitterly, was complicit.
-- Deborah Blum

#Book #Animal #Indifferent

Don't be indifferent when opportunity knocks at the door, just invite it in
-- Joe Sacco

#Opportunity #Doors #Indifferent

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

#Indifferent

Never risk more than 1% of total account equity on any one trade. By risking 1%, I am indifferent to any individual trade. Keeping your risk small and constant is absolutely critical.
-- Larry Hite

#Risk #Individual #Indifferent

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

#Neighbor #Indifferent #Hostile