It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
Quotes about aloofness (8 Quotes)
Everything they said she has to be she's contradicted. She's small and has a tough look, her face is quite crooked and that becomes an advantage because everyday people can identify with her. She cuts across the aloofness and hypocrisy of the fashion world.
The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.
The very problem of mind and body suggests division I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this particular theme. In its discussion are reflected the splitting off from each other of religion, morals and science the divorce of philosophy from science and of both from the arts of conduct. The evils which we suffer in education, in religion, in the materialism of business and the aloofness of intellectuals from life, in the whole separation of knowledge and practice -- all testify to the necessity of seeing mind-body as an integral whole.
On the highest point of the bare opposite ridge, now curtained in driving storm-cloud, towered in gigantic aloofness a mass of quartzite blackened and hardened by uncountable agesFlat, white stones lay about like tombstones with no name, no date, no word of hope, fit for the nameless, dateless dead, beasts and men, who had gone into the silence of annihilation.
It is more towards the Kenyatta aloofness. It is delegation without taking responsibility. Ministers are contradicting each other. They are issuing statements that endanger the nation. But the President is quiet. It is not a good trend.
Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.