Top 147 Aloof Quotes & Sayings

I am at my best within my family fold. Outside, I am withdrawn, aloof and reserved.

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

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

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.

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

But one thing you have to understand clearly is that it is the man who longs for domination, and it is the woman who dominates. This is what I call coexistence: live and let live. More than that is all imagination. If you really had known what love is...the basic thing is not to create a relationship. Stand aloof as the pillars of a temple stand aloof, but support the same roof. Don't destroy the individuality of the other, enhance it if you can; otherwise, at least leave it as it is, uninterfered with.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.

In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.

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!)

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

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.

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.

There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.

I'd be the first to say that I'm a distant individual. I have a tendency to come across as being aloof and dismissive.

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

I'd be fine if there weren't film festivals, and you just made your films and didn't have to do anything from that point on. That would be really great, wouldn't it? I don't know. I'm in kind of an aloof time, where I'm not taking anything too seriously.

I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof

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

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

When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.

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

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

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

People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.

When you have tools with which to stalk everyone all the time, the most seemingly aloof person wins.

I know that keeping aloof is not a wise thing but since I have nothing to prove, please don't depict me as an escapist.

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.

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.

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and sought stimulus so little, that when the latter came I almost felt it a disturbance, and rather still wished it had held aloof.

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

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

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

I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I'm so not that woman. I'm passionate. I love my girls, being with my girlfriends, getting involved with issues that affect other women and children who are suffering.

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.

The noble gases, which reside on the East Coast of the periodic table, are its aristocrats - detached and aloof, never bothering to interact with the rabble of common elements that make up the vast majority of the world.

I'm not aloof at all.

Hungry wailing standeth not aloof.

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

Being professional makes it easier for me to say no, be honest, and not feel bad about it. However, that doesn't mean that you stay aloof.

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.

I love Obama's calm and dignity. A lot of people confuse that with being aloof, but I know people that have held that job. It's a 24-hour barrage of information.

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

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.

The rap on Obama has been that he is a little too cool and aloof. The rap on Romney may be that he is just plain callous.

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

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 am not as confident as the characters I play. I am a bit aloof. I am uncomfortable in social situations.

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.

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

If a guy is tall, that's a plus, and he has to have a great personality. He needs to keep up with me because I can be an off-the-wall, aloof chatterbox sometimes! But if he's got some height on him... God bless.

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.

Oh, why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring with his talk about Europe and books and music and poetry and things that interested her not at all - and yet so desirable?