Best Aloof Quotes

I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected not just via Facebook and Internet, you’re actually quite literally connected by your neurons.

Hungry wailing standeth not aloof.

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

Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life.

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?

aloof, adj. It has always been my habit, ever since junior high school, to ask that question: What are you thinking? It is always an act of desperation, and I keep on asking, even though I know it will never work the way I want it to.

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.

Aaron Sorkin whole thing was that he didn’t want the pomposity of the presidency in the West Wing. But once we cast Martin Sheen and we realised Martin’s incredible accessibility, nothing felt pompous or aloof. If the show is about all the planets, let’s end it with the sun.

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

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.

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.

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

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!)

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.

For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless; it is precisely those who are apparently aloof from the world who build for themselves a remarkable and thoroughly individual world in miniature, using their own special equipment, termit-like.

I am aloof by nature. I mind my own business. I’m good with everyone, and I get along fine with people. But work is work, and friendship is friendship. I never mix the two.

To know that you are neither the body nor mind, watch yourself steadily and live unaffected by your body and mind, completely aloof, as if you were dead. It means you have no vested interests, either in the body or in the mind.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I’ve always felt like my music would stand for itself and I would stand for myself. So I’ve kept my music a little bit esoteric, and I’ve kept the lyrics a little aloof. I try to say something important, but I don’t necessarily preach.

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 enjoy feeling fastidious and aloof. I enjoy saying no, always no, and I should be afraid of any attempt to construct a finally habitable world, because I should merely have to say – Yes; and act like other people.

God is not aloof. He is not disconnected. He says continually through the centuries, I’ll help you, I really will. When you don’t know where to turn, then turn to me. When you’re ready to throw up your hands – throw them up to me. Put your voice behind them too, and I’ll come and help you.

Sometimes you have to make decisions that necessarily exclude the collective. It’s more difficult to be a friend – even though they know each other and they treat each other like friends, it’s more of a challenge for them. It’s just institutional fact; the two characters that are the most aloof are the ones who have the most responsibility.

If someone were plucked from the group and given those responsibilities, they might find themselves growing more aloof, just by virtue of that promotion. Suddenly the group culture excludes you. I saw this in my own working life, and I don’t think it’s a coincidence – I sensed a kind of loneliness in middle managers especially.

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.

When I am with French people, I am not aloof because I belong to them. My view is that the French president belongs to the French people, because he emanates from them. What I do is this: I am putting an end to the cronyism between politics and the media. For a president, constantly speaking to journalists, constantly being surrounded by journalists, has nothing to do with closeness to the people. A president should keep the media at arm’s length.

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