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I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary. — Paul Newman

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

Relax; the world's not watching that closely. It's too busy contemplating itself in the mirror. — Richelle E. Goodrich

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

Death takes in many people, but still lives alone. — Anthony Liccione

The fact is, one shouldn't go to parties when one is in love. It makes one act aloof and superior and everyone distrusts you. — Rosamond Lehmann

Better to stand aloof and love quietly than join the cavalcade of hate. — Marty Rubin

Never rude, always aloof. — Vladimir Nabokov

We put on our best clothes and die like heroes. — Leigh Bardugo

Rakesh said, 'What do the Aloof think we can do with this, that they can't do themselves?' 'Give a damn?' Parantham suggested. — Greg Egan

Women in long dresses, aloof and elegant, the mark of bonnet ribbons still on the soft of their necks. — Colum McCann

I am not as confident as the characters I play. I am a bit aloof. I am uncomfortable in social situations. — Anushka Sharma

Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women. — John Maynard Keynes

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

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

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

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

Wouldn't you like to know," I smiled. "I travel. Shit happens. — Alyse M. Gardner

The more you stand aloof from the sword, from the arrow, from the lance and from the fist, the more you become civilised! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Yet... if we persuade intelligent youth to hold aloof from the Army in peace, we ought not to complain if we are not properly led in war — Charles McMoran Wilson Moran

I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me. — Logan Pearsall Smith

I insist on remaining aloof, self-absorbed, lovingly nursing my suspicions. — Charles Simic

A wounded heart needs aloof. — Toba Beta

On painting and fighting looke aloofe.
[On painting and fighting look aloof.] — George Herbert

A man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and community have at heart if he would be liked. — Mark Twain

Don't characterize loners as aloof or crowd seekers as arrogant. They may be living out their story. — Max Lucado

Hungry wailing standeth not aloof. — Aeschylus

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

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

I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof — Ani DiFranco

Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion. — Eleanor Roosevelt

So, if they hold aloof from you and wage not war against you and offer you peace, Allah alloweth you no way against them" (Qur'an 4:90). — Denise A. Spellberg

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

Anger, ego, jealousy are the biggest diseases,Keep yourself aloof from these three diseases. — Sathya Sai Baba

My father was aloof, very strange and very distant. — Anthony Horowitz

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

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

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions. — Homer

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

In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted. — Eugene McCarthy

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

[W]hen people are ashamed they hold aloof, above all from those nearest to them, and are unreserved with strangers — Anton Chekhov

He wasn't a cold, aloof god anymore, but a flesh-and-blood man who could bleed, hurt. Want. — Kit Rocha

Unattached to man or matter,
You remain aloof and cold. — Mihai Eminescu

Remain in the world, act in the world, do whatsoever is needful, and yet remain transcendental, aloof, detached, a lotus flower in the pond. — Osho

At times she's thought of as an ice princess but ice, when exposed to warmth, melts. — Donna Lynn Hope

Love's not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from th' entire point. — William Shakespeare

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

Obama's even keel sometimes comes across as aloof or even cold. — Mara Liasson

No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics. — Mahatma Gandhi

While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution. — Joseph Alleine