Indifference And A Reduced Quotes & Sayings

I kept my gaze steady on him. "My greatest nightmare is to be owned by someone." "No. Your nightmare is being owned by someone unworthy. — Yamila Abraham

You love my dirty mouth and all the delicious things it can do to you. — Adriane Leigh

The good Lord made this world and everything that's in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit. — Paul McCartney

The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution. — Louis Kahn

How do you manage your online identity? It's something I talk about with my students all the time. — Hasan M. Elahi

People think I'm Snow White ... the most boring person in the world! — Andrea McLean

It was like being a prisoner on death row who survives month after month and becomes accustomed to the life, while he registers with an objective eye the horror of the new arrivals: registers it with the same numbness tha he brings to the murders and deaths themselves. All survivor literature talks about this numbness, in which life's functions are reduced to minimum, behavior becomes completely selfish and indifferent to others, and gassing and burning are everyday occurences. In the rare accounts by perpetrators , too, the gas chambers and ovens become ordinary scenary, the perpetrators reduced to their few functions and exhibiting a mental paralysis and indifference, a dullness that makes them seem drugged or drunk. — Bernhard Schlink

And now each night, I count the stars. And each night I get the same number. And when the stars won't come to be counted, I count the holes they leave. — Amiri Baraka

There was a lot of playing by myself, wearing last year's Halloween costume and wandering around the yard talking to myself - which may account for my fondness for doing different voices. — Jefferson Mays

I say
I've thought of a good plot for a detective story."
"Really?"
"Top
hole. You know, the sort that people bring out and say 'I've often thought of doing it myself, if only I could find time to sit down and write it.' I gather that sitting down is all that is necessary for producing masterpieces. — Dorothy L. Sayers

...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly. — George Orwell

The wonderful structure of the animal system will probably never permit us to look upon it as a merely physical apparatus, yet the demands of science require that the evidently magnified principles of vitality should be reduced to their natural spheres, or if truth requires, wholly subverted in favor of those more cognizable by the human understanding. The spirit of the age will not tolerate in the devotee of science a quiet indifference ... — John Gorrie

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times. — Jim Leach

Patriarchy values the hard over the soft; the tough over the tender; punishment, vengeance, and vindictiveness over compassion, negotiation, and reconciliation. The 'hard' qualities are linked to power, success, and masculinity - and exalted. The 'soft' qualities are identified with weakness, powerlessness, and femininity - and denigrated. — Starhawk

Salvation has nothing to do with your religious identity, where you were baptized or where you are a member. It has everything to do with if you have faith in Jesus Christ. — Philip Roberts