Indifferent Quotes - page 11

Hardly anyone expected the American uprising to succeed. Thousands of colonists emigrated to Canada or hid in the woods, certain that the king's armies would tear the colonial regiments to shreds. Nor did a majority of the people support the struggle for independence, even in theory. Historians estimate that one-third favored independence, one-third favored retaining British ties, and one-third were indifferent. (Marilyn Ferguson)
Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath. View quote
Robert Lanza
In an age of democracy and of peaceful or warlike communion among all parts of humanity, philosophy, like poetry and politics, must be prophetic. The content of its prophecy is a vision of how it is that we may respond, right now and with the instruments at hand, to the experience of being lost in a void that is made up of time, into the beginning and end of which we cannot see, and that is indifferent to our concerns. It is a prophecy of the path of our unchaining and of our ascent in a world of time, in which we remain always bound to death and forever denied insight into the ultimate nature of reality.... No philosopher or philosophical tradition in the last two centuries has had a monopoly on this prophecy. It is everywhere. View quote
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
South Africa never leaves one indifferent. Its history, its population, its landscapes and cultures - all speak to the visitor, to the student, to the friend of Africa. View quote
Tariq Ramadan
Your countrymen, McCorkle, are seemingly indifferent to what happens in Africa. Most of them don't care about what happens here, as long as it happens on the next block. View quote
Ross Thomas
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. View quote
Ally Carter
When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer indifferent housekeeping, sleeping cats, and sufficient organizational chaos. View quote
Anne Fadiman
The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference. View quote
Al Capp
It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten. It is a great intellectual challenge and a gorgeous sensual experience. View quote
Alain Ducasse
I'm saying, let's learn to reacquire a respect for the power of guns. This culture is so indifferent and disrespectful of guns that we should be terrified. View quote
Christopher McQuarrie
I am an indifferent cook but I can make pie. (Caroline Leavitt)
If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake. View quote
George Ripley
Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but its pretty much the whole game today. View quote
Gary Hamel
Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism. View quote
Jerome Bruner
Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue. View quote
Malcolm Turnbull
With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world. View quote
Jerry Costello
Storms are sex. They exist alongside and are indifferent to words and description and dissection. View quote
Kevin Patterson
Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind. View quote
Philip Green
He had lived a very long time, and only since he gained Anna had he learned to fear. He'd discovered that he had never been brave before-just indifferent. She had taught him that to be brave, you have to fear losing something. View quote
Patricia Briggs
The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change. View quote
Taufik Hidayat
The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county. (Thomas Jordan Jarvis)
The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil. View quote
William Dampier
Power is required for communication. To stand before an indifferent or hostile group and have one's say, or to speak honestly to a friend truths that go deep and hurt - these require self-affirmation, self-assertion, and even at times aggression. ... My experience in psychotherapy convinces me that the act which requires the most courage is the simple communication, unpropelled by rage or anger, of one's deepest thoughts to another. View quote
Rollo May
I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world. View quote
Thomas Ligotti
Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent. View quote
Mary Harris Jones