Nonchalance Quotes

“I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.”
― Rick Riordan

“A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“What's the matter with her? [Jasper] asked Griffin.
Griffin shook his head. 'Nothing. She's just two personas struggling for dominance in one body.'
[Jasper] ... Poor little thing.”
― Kady Cross, The Girl in the Steel Corset

“Balekin and Orlagh are planning your murder,” I say flustered.
“Yes,” he says lazily. “So why did I wake at all?”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“To others, I am as they perceive me, and they address me based on their preferences. I have no objection to people's perception.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.”
― Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier

“Compassion only plagues those with hearts, much like a field of thorns only troubles those who bleed.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Eena, The Companionship of the Dragon's Soul

“Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.”
― Alexandra Robbins, The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School

“What did you say, Arthur?"
"I said, how the hell did you get here?"
"I was a row of dots flowing randomly through the Universe. Have you met Thor? He makes thunder."
"Hello," said Arthur. "I expect that must be very interesting."
"Hi," said Thor, "it is.”
― Douglas Adams

“She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could wish.”
― Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart

“Ah, today is not really a good day, but my afterthought suggests it is, since I have had the chance to learn that life cannot be exemplary all the time. It is good to be taken aback once in a while because only then, would I value the state of being nonchalant.”
― Aishah Madadiy, Bits of Heaven

“He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.”
― H.W. Brands

“Marie
- Franz … Yine de orospunun biriyim işte ben! Bıçaklayabilirim kendimi! Ah! Ne Dünya! Herkesin
canı cehenneme, erkek, dişi!”
― Georg Büchner

“MARIE [Alone, after apause.]
Whata bitch I am. I could stab myself. - Oh, what a world! Everything goes to hell anyhow, man and woman alike.”
― Georg Büchner, Woyzeck

“He adored competing but didn't want you to know he'd ever worked at it.”
― H.W. Brands

“...with the nonchalance that came from the belief of youth that nothing could go wrong, and whatever could already had.”
― Kiran Manral, Missing, Presumed Dead

“70% of schoolteachers teach only in their spare time, or when they are in the mood.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions

“Enough with nonchalance in the name of practicality! Let us now rise as tornado and wipe out all apathy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live

“Maybe it takes longer than this to affect you as compared to him.' Ieuan was looking at the physician dubiously.
'Then I'm wrong, and he was poisoned, and I'm about to die.' Abraham took a big slug of wine.”
― Sarah Woodbury, Legacy of Time

“I wasn't fishing for compliments, bro, but thanks, I guess.”
― Duncan Ralston, Dead Men Walking: a Novelette