Indifferent Quotes

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I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.

- Colin Firth

If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself, Now, every day for 90 days you have to write a song; good, bad or indifferent. So that was really helpful.

- Judy Collins

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind`s eye only, fade out in sand.

- Nadine Gordimer

(on the popular belief that Daniel Day-Lewis is indifferent or not completely committed to remaining an actor) That is an amazing misconception. Daniel loves acting so much that it becomes a quest for perfection. People don`t know how Daniel can do this job the way that he does it, and my feeling is, I just can`t understand how anyone could do it any other way.

- Paul Thomas Anderson

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

- Jesse Jackson

In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.

- Loretta Lynn

(On her early Hollywood roles) "I was as two-dimensional as the screen itself: cool, indifferent, looking lovely in close ups. Period. Period. Period. When was I ever going to learn to act? You can`t learn if you can`t experiment and find out what works and doesn`t work. But the hours are long, the schedule rigid, so I did what I was told and saved time and money for the front office. And got a lot of jobs that way."

- Mary Astor

Nature is not cruel, pitiless, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

- Richard Dawkins

I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.

- Marie Dressler

It was swift and they didn`t let it linger, which was nice. I`m glad it`s over. I`m indifferent. It`s not up to me to decide, that`s not my place.

- Darcy Tucker

And it was out in the theaters in two weeks. This is not, `We`re going to develop twenty-five and maybe one`s going to get made,` so the first three things I wrote got up on the screen and, good, bad or indifferent, I got to see them on their feet.

- John Sayles

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone ... Bad food is fake food ... food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people`s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives. Food that`s too safe, too pasteurized, too healthy - it`s bad! There should be some risk, like unpasteurized cheese. Food is about rot, and decay, and fermentation.as much as it is also about freshness.

- Anthony Bourdain

It`s funny, ... how fathers especially are indifferent to risk to yourself, but very sensitive about risk to your family.

- Michael Harris

I was never a vicious person, but I was indifferent, ... I wanted the immediate approval of the people I was with and I didn`t care what they did.

- Bruce Davis

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

- Peter Marshall

Women are always complaining about men`s fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?

- Jonathan Carroll

The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.

- Kenneth Grahame

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

- Abe Beachy

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

- Ahmed Bedier

The Archivist of the United States works for the American people, indifferent to partisanship regardless of which political party dominates the Congress or the Executive branch of Government.

- Ajay Nand

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

- Al Harrison

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

- Alan Curry

The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn`t got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

- Alan Sandals

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature`s laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

- Alex Bean

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

- Alex Gruzen

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.

- Alex Kogan

Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

- Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio

Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.

- Alice Rossi

We took up our Lodging this Night with the Bermudian; our Entertainment was very indifferent, there being no fresh Water to be had on the Island.

- Alison Tate

It`s not that I was indifferent ot the horrors of war, because that`s what inspired the poem to a large extent, but I couldn`t write about them.

- Allen Rossi

And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.

- Allison Baker

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

- Allison Sharp

In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.

- Amy Saelens

You can only hate someone whom you have the capacity to love, because if you are really indifferent, you cannot even get up the enough energy to hate him.

- Andrea Wong

Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

- Andrew Krcik

Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.

- Andrew Lebow

I want a new invincible human being, insensitive to pain, resistant and indifferent about the quality of food they eat.

- Andy Larned

I will punish those who sit contented in their sins, indifferent to God, thinking he will let them alone.

- Ann Ward

The market`s slight disappointment with the figures may reflect a perception of lower profit leverage to the higher sales growth together with another indifferent quarter in the medical division.

- Barbara Eberlein

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that`s the essence of inhumanity

- George Bernard Shaw

I belive that there is a subtile magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. It is not indifferent to us which way we walk. There is a right way; but we are very liable from heedlessness and stupidity to take the wrong one. We would fain take that walk, never yet taken by us through this actual world, which is perfectly symbolical of the path which we love to travel in the interior and ideal world; and sometimes, no doubt, we find it difficult to choose our direction, because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.

- Henry David Thoreau

I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.

- Taylor Caldwell