Detached Quotes

The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people.

Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.

At last I feel identified with the mountains, clean, cold, hard, detached.

Philosophy ought to be able to give an account of rationality that is not wholly detached from science's account of nature, even if it is not straightforwardly reducible to it.

Why did I desert Labour? Total bloody disillusionment. The party was a corpse. It had no ideology, it became detached, old, spineless and needed to go.

To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.

She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.

When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.

Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.

A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information.

She watched me with a creepy sort of detached curiosity, as if I were a bug crawling across the sidewalk in front of her. I wondered briefly if she was the ant stomper type.

Money should never be separated from values. Detached from values it may indeed be the root of all evil. Linked effectively to social purpose it can be the root of opportunity.

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God.

This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity.

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.

Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.

Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space.

When even the scrupulously detached BBC is exhorting us to talk to God, you know something is going on.

I do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me.

For writers, so much is done in isolation. It can be easy to feel detached, or to get a little lost along the way.

I'm working on new techniques. I'm trying to find a way to make fresco that can be detached from a wall, and I'm trying to find new people who can help me work on a very large scale in bronze.

Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life.

I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia.

Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren't opposite-the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be.

But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.

If the Buddhist's job is to be detached, I think that the artist's job is to be both detached and attached.

Of all the views that are detached from reality, the most delusional is that Christians are persecuted in the U.S.

Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.

One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

The detached observer's view is one window on the world.

Science is not neutral in its judgments, nor dispassionate, nor detached.

The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work.

Unless and until you are detached, you cannot ascend.

As long as one can think as an outsider, an observer apart from the conflict, there is hope for a resolving thought.

Once a person has become detached from his possessions, his customary duties, his moments of solitude, where is he? What is he?

. . . what matters in combat is adaptability, boldness and maintaining A cool exterior, whilst penetrating your enemy's soul with An icy cold stare- Diary of A Combat Fiend

Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.