The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation eventually breeds a mild form of paranoia.
How do you run with confidence and insulation?” Orafoura asked me. ”I don’t know,” I replied, “asbestos you can.” “No,” he replied. “You run for political office, insulated from the consequences that actions incur in the real world.
Intentions do not insulate us from the consequences of our actions.
The availability of private insurance provides tremendous insulation for millions of individuals.
A movie set or any set is a completely private place and it feels very insulated.
Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before.
I'm intimidated anytime I work with someone who's directly outside my very insulated group of friends.
The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.
A blanket is a shield, blocking out the breeze, and an insulator, keeping in body heat.
Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.
I've been in California for about 15 years now. You're always in your car and insulated. I miss New York so much.
State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.
To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.
There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.
[last lines] Edward R. Murrow: To those who say people wouldn't look; they wouldn't be interested; they're too complacent, indifferent and insulated, I can only reply: There is, in one reporter's opinion, considerable evidence against that contention...
It was here I learnt that corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity.
Lay on me, and let my heat escape up to you, while you’ll act as my insulation and blanket.
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person.
Walkman was the precursor to the cell phone, in terms of your strategy for getting through the urban landscape and the modern experience. Insulate yourself from it with your own soundscape.
It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness.
