Aloof Quotes

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Anger, ego, jealousy are the biggest diseases,Keep yourself aloof from these three diseases.

I am quite shy and people think I'm aloof.

The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.

So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

Love's not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from th' entire point.

There was Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, an aloof superstar who had everything and needed no one. And Michael Jackson, the shy kid under the mask, who lacked even a single real friend.

I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.

He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.

With the abolition of otium and of the ego no aloof thinking is left. ... Without otium philosophical thought is impossible, cannot be conceived or understood.

Hungry wailing standeth not aloof.

In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted.

I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof

I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary.

To combat social awkwardness, I would just act like I couldn't be bothered - that kind of aloof persona or aloof demeanor. It's so off-putting.

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.

My soul, the seas are rough, and thou a stranger In these false coasts; O keep aloof; there's danger; Cast forth thy plummet; see, a rock appears; Thy ships want sea-room; make it with thy tears.

From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

Obama's even keel sometimes comes across as aloof or even cold.

While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution.

If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore.

Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.

Being aloof, gruff, or stern never got anyone anywhere. Who wants to be treated like that? Certainly not you. And surely not the people you meet.

Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion.

I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my walks in nature, meditating, and of course with my teacher.

Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.

There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.

It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave.

If you're a Brit you kinda get used to people being cold and aloof and just generally arrogant - particularly musicians. (Compared to Londoners New Yorkers are a walk in the park!)

Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities--that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring, In English meadows and English lanes.

My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.

To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.

The vast Pacific ocean would always remain the islanders' great solace, escape and nourishment, the amniotic fluid that would keep them hedonistic and aloof, guarded, gentle and mysterious.

There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful.

On painting and fighting looke aloofe. [On painting and fighting look aloof.]

I think she [Hillary Clinton] would be far superior to President [Barack] Obama, who is basically remote, aloof and not involved with - he doesn't deal with members of Congress.

The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact.

No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.

I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.

By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent.

I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

We put on our best clothes and die like heroes.

Nice words and nice appearance doesn't conclude that someone is nice, i believe that the nicer you look, the more deceptive you appear.

People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent (Both types are crawling around deep down in the rabbit's fur!)

Death takes in many people, but still lives alone.

Rather be alone, than being with someone who is aloof.