Neutral Quotes

Neutral Quotes by Lee Mack, Rachel Zoe, Norodom Sihanouk, Ivanka Trump, Salvatore Quasimodo, Johannes Stark and many others.

Not Going Out‘ is a pretty neutral sitcom – to quote the ‘Seinfeldthing, it’s not really about anything.
My basics are black, white, or neutral, and I’ll wear a ton of jewelry or carry a brightly colored bag.
Cambodia wanted no part of SEATO. We would look after ourselves as neutrals and Buddhists.
Norodom Sihanouk
My father values talent. He is colorblind and gender neutral. When Donald Trump is in charge, all that counts is ability, excellence, and effort.
Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.
Be it high or low, it doesn’t matter. I need to stay calm and neutral all the time.
Politics is my second passion, but as a historian, you have to be genuinely neutral. You have failed in your primary duty as a historian if you are one side or the other.
I want to talk about privacy, the quality of the information you receive, whether it’s neutral or commercial or pointed, bringing consciousness to the lack of neutrality in the algorithms.
But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.
The painful truth is that in its attempt to remainmorally neutral,’ Hollywood is causing us to raise a nation of cads and harlotsThanks again, Sean Penn!
I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule.
There’s no neutral language about travel. Either travel is described in ways that make it sound kind of shallow or just glossy or silly or a way for rich people to spend their time; or else travel is often described in quite derogatory ways, you know, like immigrants swarming across borders, for instance.
It’s really easy to get colors right. It’s really hard to get black – and neutrals – right. Black is certainly a color but it’s also an illusion.
Most of physics is about energy, and physicists understand inefficiencies. I wanted to write a book about our energy options in a neutral, human-accessible form.
We played in a number of these neutral site games, I would call them, whether it’s a playoff game, a bowl game, or one of these kickoff classic type things, which I think is helpful to, you know, our players in terms of playing some place that’s not really a home game for them.
I have a fearless but neutral personality.
The whole essence of humanitarian work and the Geneva Convention is that neutral, impartial organisations can operate during war.
My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.
Shoes are a neutral blessing for us because feet generally aren’t regarded as a place where the battle for self-esteem is won or lost. Feet don’t change size when the body does through the natural ageing process.
If you keep everything in the same palette of tone-on-tone neutrals, even a laid-back outfit of a slouchy sweater, jeans, and sneakers gives you a longer, leaner look.
We are not a superpower like the U.S. We are a small and neutral country.
Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It’s corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.
There is no reason why agreement on particular points should not be both possible and advantageous to the so-called neutrals and to one or more of the blocs, either existing or in the process of formation, within the League of Nations.
I can’t pretend I’m some robot that’s always neutral. I need to share my opinion – and sometimes aggressively so.
My agent had warned that, while a fine film would do my profile a world of good, a bad one wouldn’t help me at all, and I suspected she was soft-pedalling the latter possibility. The effect of a truly execrable adaptation is worse than neutral. The stink rubs off.
We all drive differently and have different styles. For me I need a car I can develop beneath me and feel comfortable in. If the car feels neutral and unbalanced it doesn’t work for me.
There are countries that prefer to think that they’re buying comfort at the cost of others, but I don’t think that’s the way you can act in this world. There are no neutral groups.
In war you’re either a collaborator or you’re a resistor. I mean you don’t get to be neutral.
Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
I wasn’t raised Catholic; I just really like the image of a neutral and benign Mary floating around somewhere, being nice to people.
My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period.
Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world’s most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti.
A lot of brands are saying they’re going to make ‘gender neutral’ clothing. But clothing is gender neutral.
My very first news director said to me that it’s better to be hated than to have viewers be neutral.
Mention the name George W. Bush in mixed company, and you’re likely to spark a lot of debate and emotionhot and cold, good and bad. Not a lot of neutral reaction. He was elected in the most controversial contest in American electoral history and governed during one of the most tumultuous decades.
Judges have to be neutral, but they don’t have to be eunuchs.
We are a small country and we have limited influence so we are neutral.
Being completely neutral, Joe Biden would be all but impossible for Trump to beat.
I love the tones of browns and grays – I love more neutral tones. That’s why I like going to the desert and working in the desert. I find that green trees and things like that have a tendency to lock us into a certain way of seeing.
I can never really remember what I look like. I’m just sort of neutral. I don’t think I’m sort of, you know, hideous.
Typically, writers meet their subjects at a neutral location – somewhere a publicist has chosen to reveal something about the celebrity, like his taste in food or hobbies or charitable work.
Most actresses have multiple commitments, from films to endorsements, that require us to maintain a particular look over a long period. Hence, there is never an opportunity to experiment with hair, so we just settle for a neutral look that we can work with across projects.
Knowledge is gender neutral, and hence the 21st century offers a great opportunity to level the gender inequity of the last thousand years in India.
I don’t think of me as, quote, ‘coming out,’ because I was never ‘in.’ I rarely, if ever, spoke about my private life and remain as neutral as possible.
Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I’ve never considered it a neutral or passive profession.
Wellness seeks more than the absence of illness; it searches for new levels of excellence. Beyond any disease-free neutral point, wellness dedicates its efforts to our total well-being – in body, mind, and spirit.
I don’t believe any lip shade is off-limits, but texture is key. A sheer lipstick in a healthy pink or neutral color looks more polished and grown-up than a super-shiny gloss.
My eyebrows – they have a life of their own. I don’t arch them on purpose; I don’t do, like, arching exercises or anything, I promise! I try to maintain a neutral mass, but they just sort of go with whatever the situation is!
I am happy to play Barcelona in a one-off game, in a neutral venue. Why? Because Spanish teams are tricky.
The U.S. can become carbon neutral in our lifetimes. In the process, we will put millions of Americans to work, make our companies more competitive, and shield our communities from extreme weather. And we will honor our obligation to leave the world a better place for future generations.
Music gave me that neutral lane to relate with everyone.
Is it good, bad, or neutral to recognize thematic patterns in your own work? When it comes to recurring themes, I’m of the mind that knowledge is probably not power, at least in terms of the work.
I’m supposed to be neutral when I do my job. But I’m a fan and I have my favorites.
We have plenty of young women coming into biology and medicine, but we don’t have enough coming into physics and engineering. It’s a really weird thing because, of course, all these subjects are completely neutral.
If it is a rental property, we’ll typically keep it fairly neutral. If it’s a vacation property, we have a lot more fun and do things a little more edgy and exciting. When we’re flipping, we obviously want to make smart decisions and do things that produce great returns.
Receptor chemistry, the chemistry of artificial receptor molecules, may be considered a generalized coordination chemistry, not limited to transition metal ions but extending to all types of substrates: cationic, anionic or neutral species of organic, inorganic or biological nature.
I don’t believe there’s any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.
So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.
Neutral looks are nice to look at, but I think that with some added drama you can make any outfit more beautiful.
I believe psychology has done very well in working out how to understand and treat disease. But I think that is literally half-baked. If all you do is work to fix problems, to alleviate suffering, then by definition you are working to get people to zero, to neutral.
I think the idea of journalists being neutral is very important.
What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn’t have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems and is neutral enough for dinner, business, a date, a funeral. You don’t overwear it, you don’t overwash it, because the Plan B is – gold.
Tools are not neutral. The computer is not a neutral tool.
I’m not saying that people should stop flying. I’m just saying it needs to be easier to be climate neutral.
When people talked about O.J. Simpson being race-neutral, that was a race card. It just meant we don’t think of him as black. But race-neutral is just like flesh-tone Band-aids. It’s not neutral; it’s white.
We all know what is meant by the terminternational community,’ don’t we? It’s the West, of course, nothing more, nothing less. Using the term ‘international community‘ is a way of dignifying the West, of globalising it, of making it sound more respectable, more neutral and high-faluting.
There is an anti-science by the far right. We have to be careful that the far left doesn’t balance this with a naive approach of promising what we can’t deliver. I mean, science is neutral; it’s not politically conservative or liberal.
Technology is not neutral.
A Trump presidency – neutral between dictatorships and democracies, opposed to free trade, skeptical of traditional U.S. defense alliances, hostile to immigration – would mark the collapse of the entire architecture of the U.S.-led post-World War II global order.
The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases ‘neutral facial expression‘ and ‘screaming in agony.’
Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.
For black and brown people, caring for ourselves and each other is not a neutral act. It is a necessary and radical part of the struggle to create a more just society. Our healing and survival are essential to the fight.
In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren’t neutral.
To be honest, the Nidahas Trophy has taught me too many things. Actually, I learnt to how to stay neutral after that.
I’m a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.
I wish everything was gender neutral. I wish we weren’t separated by boundaries like pink and blue and little things like that. I wish we could choose how we express ourselves without hate.
I’m always the neutral guy, man. I’m able to bring people together.
Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.
The language that we use now impacts on the ability to vote, it impacts on the marketplace; instead of making things clear, it makes it more confusing. I think we need to stop using neutral language and speak in straighter terms. So when you agree to something, you actually get what you agreed to in the first place.
Beans are such a nice, neutral canvas, you can make a big, basic pot of them and then play around with them differently every day.
To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of ‘disintereststrikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.
I was a child during the Lebanese civil war, and I remember Israeli bombardments. So growing up, my view of Israel was completely negative. I’m not coming from a neutral place, but with time, I’ve had to re-examine my thinking.
Every once in a while an issue comes up where I have to make a statement. I can’t totally avoid all political issues, but I try my best to minimize them. When I do make a statement, I try to be fairly neutral.
The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.
There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.
I think art should stand in its own neutral place, because I think that’s how reality always is – it’s this duality of being both hopeless and also full of hope.
King Princess is like an attitude. I take comfort in it as kind of a shield to exist in, where I can make cohesive art. And it’s androgynous, which is intentional. It’s important to me that my art exist in a kind of neutral space, genderless to some degree. And give the listener some imagery to hold on to.
You can’t compare a Super Bowl crowd, which tends to be more polite and a little more neutral to that. The Super Bowl only has 7,000 to 8,000 fans for each team.
Technology is not good, it’s neutral.
In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.
Your body must become familiar with its death – in all its possible forms and degrees – as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
Every time there’s a new tool, whether it’s Internet or cell phones or anything else, all these things can be used for good or evil. Technology is neutral; it depends on how it’s used.
Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and which to say nothing about. Governments, however, must remain neutral as to the content of expression. And governments must protect the rights of all to express even the most despicable of views.
I’m not a fashion person, but I would describe my style as very neutral. I love a good silk slip.
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors.
Stephen Douglas
I’ll offset neutral shades with bright colors. It helps me stand out without looking cartoonish.
Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona legislature have created an environment in Arizona where performing is no longer a neutral act. They have created an environment where they can convert the normal commercial interaction between artists and their fans into the means to apply this racist law.
The Sun’ and the ‘News of the World’ fell in line behind New Labour in the run up to the 1997 election, ‘The Times’ stayed broadly neutral and ‘The Sunday Times’ unenthusiastically Tory. After the election, ‘The Times’ quickly fell in line as the New Labour house journal.
I suppose on the filmmaking side, you can learn how to cram a lot into a small space. But I think that advertising, even on what is called the creative side, is incredibly easy if you have that kind of mind. A lot of people regard it as Machiavellian and dangerous, but, in fact, it is morally neutral.
It was difficult to find my way into ‘I Am Abraham,’ to feel confident enough to inhabit Lincoln‘s persona. I began with a prologue in a neutral voice, wrote of Lincoln at the White House with a sly young reporter quizzing him about his humble origins.
Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
President Obama and I disagree on policy with Israel. He seems to say… ‘We want peace, but we want to act like Switzerland. We’re going to be a neutral party to everyone.’ I think that’s negotiating from weakness.
‘The Wire‘ fans are very specific and hard core. Nobody is neutral about ‘The Wire.’ You either love it, or you couldn’t watch it, and there is no in-between.
Deirdre Lovejoy
Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individuals or ethnic groups use them. Values are influenced by so many factors such as geography, climate, religion, the economy and technology.
I love a bright lip with a neutral eye. It’s an easy, wearable look that gives brightness to your face without looking over-the-top.
There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.
The philosophy of individualism owes a great deal to the tradition of novel-writing and novel-reading. In its development and in its aesthetics, the novel is not politically neutral; it has been a participant in history all along.
Neutral men are the devil‘s allies.
I think of Kate Moss whenever I think of someone who did the bridesmaid thing right. They were all in different dresses, and I love neutrals. But it’s so hard to pull that together. You almost need a stylist for it.
I love the light-brown shadow I made with Colourpop. It’s a nice matte and neutral color that gives a bit of definition on the lids.
Facebook is not ideologically neutral. In fact, it emerges from a very particular world view which we can trace back to Hobbes. I discovered this by examining the profile of Zuckerberg‘s fellow board members who, unlike him, are a very interesting bunch and, I suspect, the real power behind the poster boy.
I love it when these Internet dudes say to me, ‘Hey man, we just want to be ‘content neutral.’
Gray is great. People think gray is a neutral, but I think it’s such a moody, intense, dramatic and sexy color. It’s very sleek.
Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out.
Listen – of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them.
D is a wholesome key. It’s not bland, like C. It’s not neutral. It’s probably on the bright side.
In order to produce learned fear, you take a neutral stimulus like a tone, and you pair it with an electrical shock. Tone, shock. Tone, shock. So the animal learns that the tone is bad news. But you can also do the opposite – shock it at other times, but never when the tone comes on.
When I first started out, I really felt like, ‘I’m a journalist; I will be respected as a neutral observer.’ And I don’t feel like that holds true anymore. I don’t think people respect journalists the same way they once did.
Third, we could, while denouncing them both as illegal, have acquiesced in them both and thus remained neutral with both sides, although not agreeing with either as to the righteousness of their respective orders.
We’ve always been more gender neutral than any other sport.
Ultimately, bridging the practice of forensic science and the public‘s need for story may be difficult. We crave narrative, order from chaos, a mystery solved, good guys winning out over the bad ones. But science, and forensic science, should be more neutral and, thus, more nuanced.
I’m the kind of person whom you like or hate, you never stay neutral.
Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant.
The central predictions of the quantity theory are that, in the long run, money growth should be neutral in its effects on the growth rate of production and should affect the inflation rate on a one-for-one basis.
Our policies for increasing agricultural production and productivity have been scale neutral; that is, our policies are equally effective irrespective of the size of the holdings.
If you use apple in one dish think of using citrus or something more neutral like vanilla in another. You constantly need to be challenging the tastebuds but not assaulting them.
I think it’s harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed.
The neutral and level playing field provided by permissionless innovation has empowered all of us with the freedom to express ourselves and innovate online without having to seek the permission of a remote telecom executive.
First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.
Peace is neutral, and not very sexy.
Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world.
The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other.
Let’s not confuse traditional behaviours with good manners. The definition of etiquette is gender neutral – it simply means we strive at all times to ensure a person in our company feels at ease.
Money is hardly neutral. Its connection to power makes it a highly charged social phenomenon and a mediator of relationships. Because it has historically been controlled by men, it has given men a tool for controlling women.
Technology is neutral, but it all depends on the way we use it.
Writing the past is never a neutral act. Writing always asks the past to justify itself, to give its reasons… provided we can live with the reasons. What we want is a narrative, not a log; a tale, not a trial. This is why most people write memoirs using the conventions not of history, but of fiction.
I generally wear a lot of black clothes, and I think that comes from wanting to be as neutral as possible. We use a lot of visuals on stage, so I kind of hope people are watching those and not looking at me.
If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.