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Love's not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from th' entire point. -- William Shakespeare
I am quite shy and people think I'm aloof. -- Kristen Stewart
The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie
But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions. -- Homer
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. -- Theodor Adorno
To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its own pace more than other places that have to keep up with the progress. -- Allen Toussaint
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. -- Annie Lennox
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. -- Ashley Judd
Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Anger, ego, jealousy are the biggest diseases,Keep yourself aloof from these three diseases. -- Sathya Sai Baba
I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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. -- John Dewey
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. -- Walter Savage Landor
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. -- Henry David Thoreau
Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities--that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring, In English meadows and English lanes. -- Alfred Austin
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. -- Confucius
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. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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. -- Aeschylus
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. -- Charlotte Bronte
Fundamentalism has stood aloof from the liberal in self-conscious superiority and has on its own part fallen into error, the error of textualism, which is simply orthodoxy without the Holy Ghost. Everywhere among conservatives we find persons who are Bible-taught but not Spirit-taught. They conceive truth to be something which they can grasp with the mind. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them, which excludes all resistance by violence, and therefore hold aloof from all participation in violence - as soon as this happens, not only will hundreds be unable to enslave millions, but not even millions will be able to enslave a single individual. -- Leo Tolstoy
My father was aloof, very strange and very distant. -- Anthony Horowitz
Obama's even keel sometimes comes across as aloof or even cold. -- Mara Liasson
I am not as confident as the characters I play. I am a bit aloof. I am uncomfortable in social situations. -- Anushka Sharma
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. -- Janeane Garofalo
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. -- David Horsey
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. -- Oscar Wilde
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. -- Stephen Stills
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. -- Ron Fournier
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. -- Ric Ocasek
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. -- Sonakshi Sinha
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. -- Imogen Heap
What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human. -- Ze Frank
Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my book and the newspaper. He kind of runs around a little bit, and then he goes and sits on top of the picnic table. He never plays with other little dogs. -- Calista Flockhart
Hungry wailing standeth not aloof. -- Aeschylus
Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women. -- John Maynard Keynes
I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof -- Ani DiFranco
I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary. -- Paul Newman
On painting and fighting looke aloofe. [On painting and fighting look aloof.] -- George Herbert
From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof. -- Aeschylus
In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted. -- Eugene McCarthy
If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore... -- Joseph Brodsky
No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics. -- Mahatma Gandhi
He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed. -- Samuel Barber
It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave. -- Trudi Canavan
A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against. -- Rod McKuen
He was my distant cousin. Not only was he 50 miles away and 50 years away, but he was just very aloof. -- Jarod Kintz
While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution. -- Joseph Alleine
I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work. -- J. D. Salinger
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. -- Trent Reznor
Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none. -- Herman Melville
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. -- Max Horkheimer
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. -- Wayne D. Dosick
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. -- Catherine Marshall
The vast Pacific ocean would always remain the islanders' great solace, escape and nourishment, the amniotic fluid that would keep them hedonistic and aloof, guarded, gentle and mysterious. -- Francine du Plessix Gray
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. -- Mark Shields
Philippine culture was clearly different. It wasn't the fan's duty to remain aloof in the presence of stars; it was the player's responsibility to show gratitude to the average Filipino. -- Rafe Bartholomew
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. -- Frederick Lenz
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. -- Frederick Lenz
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!) -- Thea Gilmore
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. -- Henry David Thoreau
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. -- Maya Angelou
There was Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, an aloof superstar who had everything and needed no one. And Michael Jackson, the shy kid under the mask, who lacked even a single real friend. -- Michael Jackson
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. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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