#detached

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#difficult #feel #grief #i #i feel

The detached observer's view is one window on the world. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#observer #view #window #world

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#even #historical #odyssey #point #side

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult. ↗

— Prem Rawat

#difficult #down #float #go #life

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it. ↗

— Ida Tarbell

#easily #hold #lays #mind #really

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught. ↗

— Val Kilmer

#before #caught #detached #get #jim

Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#ago #always #being #bonus #british

We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#circumstances #detached #electrical #electron #even

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#clicks #curl #detached #doll #event

It's amusing to me that we refer to people who live in their heads as detached, disturbed, or mad, when reality for anyone is actually a matter of the individual's state of mind. The mad truth--all people live in their heads. Whatever you think life is, it is. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#detached #disturbed #madness #outlook #outlook-in-life