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Quotes About Distracted

I'm working for solutions, and I won't be distracted from the fight to save our education system.
~ John Bel Edwards
Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?So may you blame some fair and crystal river, For that some melancholic distracted manHath drowned himself in't.
~ John Webster, The White Devil
In proportion to their number, [incompatible immigrants] will infuse into [the nation] their spirit, warp or bias its direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Easy. They just let us forget. Give us too much to process, fill up every minute, keep us distracted, it's what the Tube is for, and though it kills me to say it, it's what rock and roll is becoming - just another way to claim our attention, so that beautiful certainty we had starts to fade, and after a while they have us convinced all over again that we really are going to die. And they've got us again.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Are you okay?" she asked. "You seem just a tad distracted," she said in a mischievous way. "My dad would have said you are jumping around like a fart in a skillet.
~ C.J. Box
preoccupied by work." I start to apologize, but she cuts me off.
~ Gene Kim
My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.
~ Hannah Gadsby
Kissing on screen is just - funny enough, you're just acting, so you're distracted by that more than anything. Or at least I am.
~ Dylan O'Brien
That can happen sometimes: We see what's good but need to be given the motivation or strength to do it when we're tired or distracted by something else. That's one of the major things a family is for, and I look forward to that with the family that I start one day.
~ Devlin Hodges
The world is caught up by appearances, dazzled by their infinite variety, snared by illusion, endlessly distracted, and does not recognize me, the eternal principle that connects the humblest flower with the grandeur of the constellations.
~ Carole Satyamurti
You are embarrassed. She leaned over to kiss him, and while he was distracted, snatched the disc. That's cute. Really cute. Shut up. Give me that. I don't think so. Delighted, she danced back a step and held the disc out of reach. I bet this is very hot. Aren't you curious? No. He made a grab, but she was very quick. Eve, give me the damn thing. This is fascinating. She edged back toward the open patio doors. The sophisticated,seen-it-all Roarke is blushing.
~ J.D. Robb
Qhuinn?" Those iridescent blue eyes frowned. "Are you okay?" "Sorry." He leaned in and pressed his lips to the male's jugular. "Distracted. But you do that to me, don't you." As
~ J.R. Ward
I have no attention span. I get bored so fast.
~ Carrie Underwood
Dangerous behaviors like distracted driving, speeding, and not wearing a seat belt and puts you and others at serious risk.
~ Ralph Northam
20:08:13 USSS 1: It's been an hour and not a peep. I am beginning to get concerned messages from people in the Pentagon wanting to know why Backhoe is incommunicado. 20:08:22 DOSECOPS C4 ACTUAL: The Pentagon? 20:08:27 USSS 1: The Trapezoid. Was my transmission garbled? 20:08:33 DOSECOPS C4 ACTUAL: Sorry, I was distracted. I thought you said Pentagon.
~ Neal Stephenson
Then their conversation turned to work and movies. I tried to contribute, but I had trouble focusing on the words. They just floated into my ear and accumulated there like wax.
~ Neil Strauss
He has the attention span of a hummingbird.
~ Christopher Moore
Cam shot a glare at a driver in a bright red Camry in the lane next to his who was more concerned with her cell phone than she was in keeping her car from drifting over the line. "Neighbors said the couple used to fight. A suitcase was packed.
~ Kylie Brant
What was that?" Jace said. "Sorry, I think I fell asleep for a moment. Do, continue with whatever mesmerizing thing you were saying.
~ Cassandra Clare
I was right in the middle of a story and leading to a punch line and then I just heard 'John John' and I just looked around. I could see someone in the shadows walking forward and he said 'John I can't find me seat lad, d'ya know where me seat is?' I looked at him and it was my uncle Dave.
~ John Bishop
While others may get distracted, I will continue to focus on the problem of unemployment and seek to help create good, high-paying jobs for Arkansans.
~ Tim Griffin
They have the same point of view. The two parties are two factions of the business party. Most of the population doesn't even bother voting because it looks meaningless. They're marginalized and properly distracted. At least that's the goal.
~ Noam Chomsky
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
~ Noam Chomsky
Whoopee,' she said quietly, on her face the distracted look that had obsessed so many of the opposite sex over the years. She'd forgotten most of them. The ones who'd fought over her; the ones who'd lost their wives in their pursuit of her; even those who'd sold their sanity to find her equal: all were forgotten. History had never much engaged her. It was the future that glittered in her mind's eye, now more than ever.
~ Clive Barker