Indifference And Callousness Quotes & Sayings

If you stress-test the boundaries and experiment with the "impossibles," you'll quickly discover that most limitations are a fragile collection of socially reinforced rules you can choose to break at any time. — Timothy Ferriss

Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching is? The children themselves are this book. We should not learn to teach out of any book other than the one lying open before us and consisting of the children themselves. — Rudolf Steiner

I've got the attention span of a child. — Ricky Gervais

Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair. — John Bowlby

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming. — Lionel Blue

I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades. — Diana Vreeland

It won't be forever. You'll be in the dark for as long as it takes and then you'll come out. — Sophie Kinsella

CAPITALISM: If everything worked without need of repair, upgrade or replacement, then peaceful minds and prosperity would prevail among the masses rather than just the few who control markets. — T.F. Hodge

What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing it? Different kinds of women, female friendships: It's all pretty funny, and worth making fun of. — Elizabeth Meriwether

Love is not cold and what is cold is not love. — Marty Rubin

Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to let the stream of their life carry them along, past reaches of terror and loss. They have a certain quality which it would not be accurate to describe as callousness or indifference. It is, rather, a blessedly circumscribed imagination and an intuitive feeling that Life is Now. A foraging wild creature, intent above all upon survival, is as strong as the grass. — Richard Adams

The sun tells the best joke of a day full of them, setting so spectacularly that you can almost smell the tropical paradise lazing somewhere over this rim of endless, gray socialist towers. Miles of square windows explode orange, red, and purple, like a million TV sets broadcasting the apocalypse. Clouds unspool. The sky drains of birds. — Tod Wodicka

Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
(Jesus, in Mark 11:24) — Anonymous

Inter have bought the finished article and there's no doubt he can keep improving. — Mick McCarthy

An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah. — George Wein

It was awful, this love. — Eloisa James

While the state may only satisfy our demands in some marginal fashion, there is no reason for us to advance marginal demands; and this does not mean we have to limit ourselves to maximum demands for immediate realization of FULL COMMUNISM. It means we recognize the actual demand from the working class and propose solutions that move us in the direction of communism. — Anonymous

The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering towards animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of human spirit. — Ashley Montagu

She was, he knew- and had known very early, he supposed- one of those rare and always lovely humans whose moral nature was so delicate that it must be nourished and cared for that it might be fulfilled. Alien to the world, it had to live where it could not be at home; avid for tenderness and quiet, it had to feed upon indifference and callousness and noise. It was a nature that, even in the strange and inimical place where it had to live, had not the savagery to fight off the brutal forces that opposed it and could only withdraw to a quietness where it was forlorn and small and gently still. — John Edward Williams