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Quotes About Ignoring

People told me that if I ignored you, if I pretended that you didn't bother me, you'd eventually give up and move on to the next victim. So why didn't that ever happen?
~ Laurie Faria Stolarz
One thing that is good about librarians is they listen to what you need and want and think of a way to help you which sometimes is by ignoring what you need and want. Maybe they do not have the book you requested because their library is nothing but leftovers. Or maybe what you requested is wrong-people often are, even smart people who read-but it is okay because librarians have witchlike librarian magic to pick the right book for you
~ Laurie Frankel
Sometimes when someone tells a ridiculous lie, it is best to ignore it entirely.
~ Lemony Snicket
possibly because of their habit of bringing their reading matter to the dinner table and ignoring any non-bookworms present.
~ Jane Hawking
In a well-monitored storage site, it is always possible to release CO2 in a controlled manner in the unlikely event that it threatens to escape. Such a release is certainly no worse than ignoring the emission in the first place.
~ Klaus Lackner
Like most citizens of popular and international urban centres, I don't take advantage of the cultural opportunities. Perhaps this comes from growing up in suburbia. Home is where you eat, sleep, read, watch television and ignore your parents. It is not where you go to the ballet and then attend a heated panel discussion about it afterwards.
~ Sloane Crosley
In marriage, there's a lot of ignoring each other, which is hard to fake on-screen.
~ Paul Bettany
I stifled a sigh and ignored the Imprinted Drunk Vision Girl.
~ P.C. Cast
I couldn't tell what the hell Heath was talking about." Stark's stomach tightened. "You mean Aurox." "Yeah, Aurox." Zoey frowned. "That's what I said. So, what's going on?" Stark was too tired to argue with her, so he ignored her Freudian slip
~ P.C. Cast
If my parents aren't ignoring me, they're insulting me. I like being ignored better.
~ P.C. Cast
single insincere phoneme, piss me off? Why can't I ignore her
~ Pat Conroy
Are you content? If so, you can afford to ignore the condemnation of the crowd.
~ Daniel Keyes
he patiently tolerated as much of him as he thought tolerable. The rest he ignored.
~ Wendell Berry
The first time you ignored me, I was upset. Then I got mad at you. I yelled. You acted as if I didn't exist. It was weird and confusing.
~ Whitley Strieber
He ignored the disturbing ripple and tried to focus on the gateway.
~ Christa Faust
tendency to seize upon the most optimistic timetable for completing a project and ignore any information that might make you revise that prediction. According
~ Christopher Cox
The movement has kept itself from full development by denying, ignoring, and rejecting parts of itself, including its spiritual legacy.
~ Helen LaKelly Hunt
I said that as far as I could gather it was a tale about a woman who could be led out of captivity only by a man, and that the man could save her only by ignoring her.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
~ Henry Adams
In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.
~ Henry Adams
Our emotions always serve a purpose, like the warning lights on a car dashboard. Ignoring them doesn't make them go away, and often ignoring our feelings only makes the problem worse.
~ Leslie Vernick
Quentin suppose her unfussy diligence reminded him unpleasantly of the future he was ignoring.
~ Lev Grossman
What made the new world picture so potent was that its method of deliberately ignoring the complex reality of organisms was an immense labor-saving device: its pragmatic efficiency counterbalanced its conceptual superficiality. The universe as a whole, the whole that contains all other wholes, is immeasurable and unthinkable in its infinite variety and multi-fold concreteness. Only by samples and abstractions can one put together in the mind a playtoy model.
~ Lewis Mumford
I like to make an outline or cards and then utterly ignore them.
~ Margaret Stohl