Quotes About Ignoring

When you have a political environment that is being so heavily influenced by the Tea Party that calls for shrinking the size of government, you can't ignore it. There are political realities.

The supposed American consensus had always been clouded. The experts had just become expert at ignoring the clouds.

Concentrating to within an inch of your life on the pre-flight safety briefing, to compensate for those ignoring it.

One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.

I deliberately ignored these things because I knew they weren't interesting. You can do a lot by avoiding bad as opposed to seeking good.

Dead silence filled the room. Five Whitecloaks stood in the middle of the floor, studiously being ignored by the folk at the tables.

Morgase had a temper, but I thought I could ignore that, so it ended with her wanting to kill me. —Thom Merrillin from Wheel of Time

And yet death was not something you could ignore. It had its weight. It was a dead man lying upstairs, not a man who was sick. It seemed to her she had better not form the practice of ignoring death. If she tried it, death would find a way to answer back—it would take another of her loved ones, to remind her to respect it.

Richard either didn't hear me, or chose to ignore it. Smart, handsome, junior high science teacher, degree in preternatural biology, what more could i ask for? Give me a minute and I'd think of something.

Interesting, is it not?" I must be better, I thought: his gnomic utterings were irritating me again. I replied in my customary way; namely, I ignored him.

Holmes!" I exclaimed. "I thought you were busy." "By the time you let me go, the blood had clotted beyond all recognition," he said dismissively. He ignored the expressions on the faces around us that his statement had brought, and waved a hand at the young constable.

The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

You are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can can play the 'Gloria'? No, not Bach's 'Gloria.' Yours! Your 'Gloria' lives within you. The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you.

Attention is something I've learned to ignore. This is what I do: I live my life and they document it.

Ignoring men, whether romantically or rhetorically, is existential violence to them.

I nodded. She had a point. A point that I fully intended to ignore. My questions had never been about trying to save myself in the first place. I just wanted to know what variables I had to work with in terms of methods of triggering and avoiding elimination.

You know her very superficially. As, incidentally, she knows you. It's quite typical of the relationship which binds you, or did bind you. Both parties aren't capable of anything other than a strongly emotional evaluation of the consequences, while ignoring the causes." "She

I just have no patience with people who ignore the Do Not Call list, so I also have no qualms about hanging up on them.

Let's say I try to ignore the small stuff, like wet towels on the floor, the dishwasher full to the brim and not turned on. You know what men are like, they'll never rise to our standards of excellence. But when they try, that's enough!

Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.

For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.

I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.

Asimismo, la administración de los Estados Unidos hizo caso omiso de las reuniones secretas del gabinete interior de Arafat, que derivaron en la detención de numerosos oponentes políticos.

She remembers how she 'wanted only to see the good' and the rest she 'simply shoved aside'.