If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
A. J. Liebling
In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.
Al Goldstein
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
Albert Camus
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
What I know most is that the difference between us is what makes us interesting and attractive and problematic and exciting and vital to each other. Give me difference over indifference any day.
Ali Smith
Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism.
Ameen Rihani
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Anatole France
Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
Andre Maurois
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.
Andrea Dworkin
When I came to the last line of 'Car Crash While Hitchhiking,' I read it as a pitiless statement of indifference: a refusal to warn the family of their impending collision, a refusal to help when miraculously spared, a refusal to act on the empathy hiding behind the story's language.
Anthony Marra
Passion must be concealed in a society where cold reserve and indifference are the signs of good breeding.
Anton Chekhov
My work is about the underbelly of the beauty of nature - and the dark side of nature is its indifference. Nature isn't friendly, nor is it unfriendly - it's the perfect embodiment of the Other.
April Gornik
I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
August Strindberg
There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.
Benjamin Robbins Curtis
The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
Bess Myerson
In Minneapolis, we believe in connection, not alienation. We believe in compassion, not indifference. We believe in love, but we are not timid.
Betsy Hodges
I had only one idea before me throughout the trial, i.e. to show complete indifference towards the trial in spite of serious nature of the charges against us.
Bhagat Singh
We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
Bill Moyers
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
Blaise Pascal
Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.
If you tell stories you love, you will never tell them with indifference - take it to the bank.
Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
Mr. Sessions' conduct as a U.S. Attorney, from his politically-motivated voting fraud prosecutions to his indifference toward criminal violations of civil rights laws, indicated that he lacks the temperament, fairness and judgment to be a federal judge.
I have nothing against rich brothers and sisters. Pray for 'em every day. But callousness and indifference, greed and avarice is something that's shot through all of us.
Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.
The older I get, the more aware I am of the banality and indifference of a place like Trinidad to any development of the arts.
It's indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.
The most destructive criticism is indifference.
Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of Iran flooded the streets to protest the theft of their presidential election in June 2009, President Obama was silent for 11 days.
Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
Crowd involvement plays a huge part in the performance of a professional wrestler. The only thing I do not want to hear when I am in the ring is the sound of indifference.
In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.
The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
