“An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.”
Robert Bresson
“The economy is detached from the political noise surrounding the electoral process.”
Carola Sandy
“Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment -- a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, or one's discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh, the result is the same: you forget yourself.”
Claude Roy
“There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil - remain detached from the great”
Walter Lippmann
“Only by doing good can one benefit. Those who detach themselves from 'bad' and yearn for 'good',dedicate their lives to god and to the service of scholars shall be blessed.”
Rig Veda
“Excessive attachment to sense pleasures leads to bondage, and detachment from sense pleasures leads to liberation; therefore it is the mind alone that is responsible for bondage or liberation.”
Chanakya
“The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.”
Clive James