Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.
Karl Philipp Moritz -
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Jack Kerouac -
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
Dag Hammarskjold -
The most destructive criticism is indifference.
E. W. Howe -
Never focus your eyes on the obstacle or the difficulty. The obstacle will be a matter of total indifference to the river that will flow steadily through you if you will simply remember to stay focused on the Source.
Oswald Chambers -
Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.
Louis Nizer
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There is nothing in the world so monstrously vast as our indifference.
Machado de Assis -
For hearts where wakened love doth lurk, How fine, how blest a thing is work! For work does good when reasons fail.
Jean Ingelow -
There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.
Sophocles -
Love may turn to indifference with possession.
William Hazlitt -
Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it
William Hazlitt -
For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands.
Lord Byron
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Come what may, I have been blest.
Lord Byron -
Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing.
William Arthur Ward -
Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.
William Feather -
The leader should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
Soren Kierkegaard -
No matter the time, carried away the wind is Better your absence Thy indifference.
Serge Gainsbourg
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Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.
Oliver Herford -
The modern media environment is so overrun with bullshit and static and people trying to sell you stupid crap. It makes you want to bite yourself.
Brad Listi -
I was a dishwasher at one of those Japanese places that cook on your table. Not too fun.
Aziz Ansari -
She commands who is blest with indifference.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas