Top 742 Indifferent Quotes & Sayings

There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.

fear cannot exist when one is indifferent to life.

He stared at her fists and at her face and said with upset incredulity, "You promised me you would forgive me-" "Forgive you,"Tatiana hissed through her teeth, tears streaming down her face, "for your brave and indifferent face, Alexander!" She groaned in pain. "Not for your brave and indifferent heart.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.

It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.

It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering

For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference means solitude. Those who are indifferent do not see others. They feel nothing for others and are unconcerned with what might happen to them. They are surrounded by a great emptiness. Filled by it, in fact. They are devoid of all hope as well as imagination. In other words, devoid of any future.

You cannot be in Christ and be indifferent to the sin in your life.

This demonstration of power, indifferent to the law, is highly dangerous.

The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.

Can we who have had the joy of knowing that we are not orphans, that we have a Father, be indifferent to this city which asks of us, perhaps even unwittingly, without being aware of it, a hope that will help it look to the future with greater confidence and serenity? We cannot remain indifferent. . . . Words without witness are hot air. Words do not suffice. It must be the true witness that Paul speaks of.

I love portraying the totally indifferent person.

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work.

Reality is divinely indifferent.

I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.

Don't be indifferent when opportunity knocks at the door, just invite it in

I could not, as my father's daughter, remain indifferent to all that was going on.

If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every child an aptitude to acquire these kinds of knowledge in the same order. So that even were the order intrinsically indifferent, it would facilitate education to lead the individual mind through the steps traversed by the general mind. But the order is not intrinsically indifferent; and hence the fundamental reason why education should be a repetition of civilization in little.

I am an indifferent cook but I can make pie.

When we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to.

That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, while the man seems careless and indifferent.

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly 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.

What we were trying to do was take the notion of Greek tragedy, of fated and doomed people, and instead of these Olympian gods, indifferent, venal, selfish, hurling lightning bolts and hitting people in the ass for no reason — instead of those guys whipping it on Oedipus or Achilles, it’s the postmodern institutions . . . those are the indifferent gods.

Though the youth at last grows indifferent, the laws of the universe are not indifferent, but are forever on the side of the most sensitive.

Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

Nature is monumentally indifferent.

She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be either indifferent or unwilling. Has he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the indepencence which alone had been wanting.

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent

The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.

I'm utterly indifferent to Kate Middleton's baby.

I am an indifferent cook, but I can make pie.

Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.

We cannot be indifferent to people's life and business.

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

It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.

The universe is not indifferent to our existence - it depends on it.

Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.

I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.

I'm pretty much a loner. That's not good, bad, or indifferent.

All of a sudden I became aware of a little star in one of those patches and I began looking at it intently. That was because the little star gave me an idea: I made up my mind to kill myself that night. I had made up my mind to kill myself already two months before and, poor as I am, I bought myself an excellent revolver and loaded it the same day. But two months had elapsed and it was still lying in the drawer. I was so utterly indifferent to everything that I was anxious to wait for the moment when I would not be so indifferent and then kill myself. Why -- I don't know.

Wherever people feel safe — they will be indifferent.

The fundamentals for me are character and conflict. I put character first because readers will be indifferent to conflict if they are indifferent to the character who is experiencing it.

So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: “Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is.” Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.

The circumstances with which every thing in this world is begirt, give every thing in this world its size and shape;--and by tightening it, or relaxing it, this way or that, make the thing to be, what it is--great--little--good--bad--indifferent or not indifferent, just as the case happens.

Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.

I’m not insane, I’m voluntarily indifferent to conventional rationality.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.

In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful.

A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

If you are not sensitive to rejection, doesn't that also mean you're indifferent to love?

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.

There's a really wonderful book called "Man Is Not Alone" by Abraham Joshua Heschel, which makes the case that everybody is religious. You know, we've just been sort of too vigilant about our terminology and our definitions and too precious about it. But there's nobody who is indifferent to the experience of standing in front of an ocean at night. There's nobody who is indifferent to the feeling of, you know, lying on your back and looking up at the night sky.

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.

Stores can be indifferent to something new.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.