Top 100 Distract Quotes
#1. Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female but not the male.
Alfred Kinsey
#2. The question is whether or not our insecurities are substantial enough to hurt, limit, or even distract us from profound effectiveness or fulfillment of purpose.
Beth Moore
#3. To distract myself, I thought about all the cusswords I knew and arranged them in alphabetical order.
Sue Grafton
#4. It's like I'm trying to distract him with something shiny." Cath circled her spoon hand in front of her face, accidentally flicking cottage cheese on her sweater. "He already knows about all this. This is what I look like." She tried to scrape the cottage cheese off without rubbing it in." (pg. 290)
Rainbow Rowell
#5. No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear ... the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a pill, or distract ourselves, but by all means make it go away. (5)
Pema Chodron
#6. Keep making a difference out there! Don't let the noise around you distract you from listening to the voice within you.
Farshad Asl
#7. My opponents will do anything they can to distract from their own flawed candidate. Bob Menendez is under federal criminal investigation. As far as I know, he is the only candidate for Senate under federal criminal investigation.
Thomas Kean Jr.
#8. the two biggest hindrances to living the life God designed you to live: Wanting to be like others (envy), and wanting to be liked by others (people-pleasing.) These traps are subtle, but they distract and detour millions of people from the purposes they were created to fulfill.
Rick Warren
#9. Leaving knots untied and scattering seeds to distract them will only work on vampires with OCD.
Molly Harper
#10. I am hardly a technophobe. But we will get the best of these technologies only if we don't let them distract us from making these deep human connections, addressing these deep human longings, and inspiring these deep human energies.
Thomas L. Friedman
#11. An inner life and inner enemies to conquer, battle and destroy. These enemies are the various desires that seek to distract our concentration by causing our thoughts to cling to outward things, things that will pass away.
Johan Oscar Smith
#12. The purpose of bread and circuses is, as Neil Postman said in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, to distract, to divert emotional energy towards the absurd and the trivial and the spectacle while you are ruthlessly stripped of power.
Chris Hedges
#13. Believe me, blond hair can take you really far, especially with the older men. It can really distract from the face. I am convinced I could have had sex with both Tony Bennett and John McCain if we weren't each happily married at the time we all met.
Amy Poehler
#14. When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.
Mercedes McCambridge
#15. Belts distract the eye from a bloated tummy, a heavy-set upper body and all manner of sins. They can be a superb way to update your wardrobe without breaking the bank, and there's no reason to stop wearing them, ever!
Twiggy
#16. My mind kept thinking its harsh thinky thoughts, but I would distract myself from them gently and say, 'Those are not the truth, those are not trustworthy, those are for entertainment purposes only.' Eventually I had quieter thoughts.
Anne Lamott
#17. My mother didn't believe in germs but I did. Germs are something they made up to distract people from what they should really be worried about, she said. Germs are natural. It's the things people do you have to worry about.
Joyce Maynard
#18. When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know anything. If it's good I don't want to hear it; if it's bad I don't want to hear it. The only thing either thing can do is distract me. I like to stay focused.
Cicely Tyson
#19. Out of habit, she stopped by the bookshelf in the living room to see if there was a paperback that she could stuff into her pocket for emergencies - you never knew when you might need a book to entertain and comfort and distract you in the day's empty places
Emily Croy Barker
#20. If you go through any culture that has had wars, go to the bomb shelters, and you'll hear some amazing stories. Yes, it's a necessary thing that we actually both distract ourselves and it's a way to bond.
Rabih Alameddine
#21. To distract from the president's disappointing record, Team Obama has decided to base their entire campaign on attacking the private sector and Mitt Romney's career as a successful businessman.
Reince Priebus
#22. Elias could not have prepared himself for the moment that he walked into that cottage and laid his eyes on her. Her emerald green eyes
the way they gazed upon him like there were no surroundings or time or sounds to distract her, like he was all that existed.
Allie Burke
#23. I think it's possible for all of us to use our yoga to distract us from our yoga. Because we get so caught up in the form that we forget the soul.
Judith Hanson Lasater
#24. I don't mind my eyebrows. They add ... something to me. I wouldn't say they were my best feature, though. People tell me they like my eyes. They distract from the eyebrows.
Nicholas Hoult
#25. With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.
Jack White
#26. Do the things external which fall upon thee distract thee? Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
Marcus Aurelius
#27. Goals for the future distract from worry and anger about the past and redirect your focus to the direction you're travelling in.
Sam Owen
#28. It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.
Kendrick Meek
#29. The church today is riddled with fad doctrines and new sounds that distract from the clear message of the Great commission in the New Testament. Any message that attracts you which does not bring glory to Christ is the message of a seducing spirit and the man giving it is in deception.
John Hagee
#30. All along I've thought the best way to keep out all the voices in my head directing my life this way and that was to stay busy, to distract my brain from itself, but it's this profound silence that releases me from worry.
Rachel Friedman
#31. Focusing on other people's flaws will distract you from seeing your own.
Habeeb Akande
#32. Women are for procreation, not recreation; they will only distract you.
Malcolm Archibald
#33. Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.
Michael Bassey
#34. I imagine fucking that mouth to distract myself from all thoughts of hunger. Yes, her mouth needs training, and I imagine her on her knees before me. Now, that thought is appealing.
E.L. James
#35. In our world, where hundreds of things distract us from God, we have to intentionally and consistently remind ourselves of Him.
Francis Chan
#36. I try to distract myself from reality by wielding an active imagination. Then I have nightmares.
Donna Lynn Hope
#38. Rituals, ceremonies, prayers, and special outfits are inevitable, but they do not - they cannot - express the heart of what the Buddha taught. In fact, all too often, such things get in the way. They veil the simple wisdom of the Buddha's words, and distract us from it.
Steve Hagen
#39. If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract them from making a difference and becoming leaders.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom
#40. Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.
Adam Gopnik
#41. As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.
Samantha Power
#42. The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.
Bob Edwards
#43. I'm sure you could distract me with something better than hand holding, sugar." He winked, then winced and sucked in a breath. "Holy f-f-f-f-fire truck. I think you just stitched my kidney.
Eden Summers
#44. The writing of history is largely a diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.
Frank Herbert
#45. With nothing else to distract her, Celeana eventually returned to thinking about Sam. Even weeks later, she had no idea how she'd somehow gotten attached to him, what he'd been shouting when Arobynn beat her, and why Arobynn had thought he'd need three seasoned assassins to restrain him that day.
Sarah J. Maas
#46. I think by the time I left Egypt, there was about like 400 accusations against me in the drawer of the public persecutor office. It's a way for them to exhaust you, to push you, to put you under pressure, to distract you.
Bassem Youssef
#47. Any business that is trying to sell something should be willing to spend a couple dollars for a stock photo to not have ads in it and not distract the user from using the product they're trying to sell.
Jon Oringer
#48. Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women's voices regarding their own health care.
Sandra Fluke
#49. I'm pretty good at compartmentalizing things and not allowing things outside of myself to distract me or bother me or affect me in any way.
James Frey
#50. Upon himself; horror and doubt distract His troubl'd thoughts, and from the bottom stirr The Hell within him, for within him Hell He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell One step no more then from himself can fly By
John Milton
#51. Blacksmiths sometimes twist a rope tight around the nose of a horse, and by thus inflicting a little pain they distract his attention from the shoeing process. One way to get air out of a
glass is to pour in water. Be Absorbed by Your Subject
Dale Carnegie
#52. The nannyism is partly to distract from the corruption - and partly just another opportunity to leverage it. A good general rule is that the more a government wants to run its citizens' lives, the worse job it will do at the most basic tasks of government.
Glenn Reynolds
#53. Sometimes I think Life is best summed up as
(a) Awful Bits
and
)b) This That Successfully Distract One from the Awful Bits
Michelle Cooper
#54. But seeking the temporary reward of the world's approval can distract us from seeking the eternal reward of the Lord's approval.
Gloria Furman
#55. [Society] is structured to distract people from the decisions that have a huge impact on happiness in order to focus attention on the decisions that have a marginal impact on happiness.
Meg Jay
#56. The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each.
Bill Watterson
#57. Quin stalked beside him, his anger a physical presence between them. Matheus named it Bob, and addressed imaginary questions to it to distract himself.
Amy Fecteau
#58. At her core, she was broken, and life was just one long attempt to distract people from noticing
Patrick Ness
#59. A question I sometimes ask myself is, Will saying this or doing this or dressing this way distract guys from Jesus?
Paula Hendricks
#60. didn't consciously see it like this, but his habit became his go-to way to distract himself from
Amy Johnson
#61. The right relationship won't distract you from God. It will bring you closer to Him.
Jason Evert
#62. I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distract from the real reason why you're together, which is that you just like each other.
Chris Martin
#63. Do not let pleasure distract you from meditation, from the way. Free yourself from pleasure and pain.
Gautama Buddha
#64. It's easy to make something avant garde. To do something in the traditional way is much more brave in the sense that you're - your technique is so much more exposed because there's not all this flashy stuff to distract the viewer.
Cary Fukunaga
#65. The existence of flying saucers is unlikely to be verified by an accumulation of facts and figures, dates and times, which, if anything, tend to dull and distract the creative intelligence, obscuring more than they reveal.
Ken Hollings
#66. You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.
Larry Fitzgerald
#67. Melody tried to distract me in a skirt made of brain skin.
Steve Aylett
#68. You are not going to waltz in here and distract me with a clever phrase and a beguiling smile."
"You think my smile is beguiling?
Julia Quinn
#69. I believe that when you go into a gallery or a museum, the most powerful pieces are the ones that don't have the words in the corner that distract you from the larger piece.
Maynard James Keenan
#70. Just as a salesperson is never extreme or original or overdressed, so the TV retailers never do anything to distract their audiences from the real product, the commercial.
Jennifer Stone
#71. WARNING: THE SURGEON GENERAL'S CRUSADE AGAINST THIS PRODUCT MAY DISTRACT YOU FROM THE MYRIAD WAYS YOUR GOVERNMENT FAILS TO PROTECT YOUR HEALTH.
James K. Morrow
#72. The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.
Robert Breault
#73. There's an infinite amount of possibilities and detours and things that can distract you from actually just performing the song and having whatever emotion that's invested into the song come through in the recording.
Beck
#75. I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.
Novak Djokovic
#76. Don't let hollow heroes distract you from saving yourself.
Nikki Rowe
#78. But by God, he was going to stop running from his cowardice. He had to own his shit - even if it made him hate himself to the core. Because maybe if he did, he'd stop trying to distract himself with sex and drinking, and figure out what he did want.
Apart from Blay, that was.
J.R. Ward
#79. during conversation faces are so expressive that they distract individuals with ASC. So people with ASC have to decide, Do I watch or listen? This is why those of us with ASC so often don't look at you when we're speaking or being spoken to. We can only do one thing at a time.
Wenn Lawson
#80. Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together?" she asked. "Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?"
"Wouldn't it be great if it did?" I said. Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about avoiding suffering.
Paul Kalanithi
#81. We know the utility of prayer from the efforts of the wicked spirits to distract us during the divine office; and we experience the fruit of prayer in the defeat of our enemies.
John Climacus
#82. Your audacious life goals are fabulous. We're proud of you for having them. But it's possible that those goals are designed to distract you from the thing that's really frightening you
the shift in daily habits that would mean a re-invention of how you see yourself.
Seth Godin
#83. Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody says distract you from your goals.
Michelle Obama
#84. That would distract your attention, and attention is the whole point. Attention to the experience of something given, something you haven't invented in your imagination.
Aldous Huxley
#85. Many Christians are "devoured" by worldly interests that distract them from spiritual service to God.
Victor H Ernest
#86. I believe conspiracy theories are part of a larger conspiracy to distract us from the real conspiracy. String theory.
Andy Kindler
#87. You were able to wait,' said Dantes, sighing. 'Your long labor gave you a constant occupation, and when you didn't have your work to distract you, you had your hopes to console you.
Alexandre Dumas
#88. People are constantly not feeling, but numbing themselves, either through medication or playing on their phones. If you start feeling bad, it's like, 'Distract! Distract! Put on Storage Wars!' And I know because I'm guilty of it, too.
Mary Lambert
#89. A mouse slid out from under his hat and scrambled down his sleeve, across his lap, and down to the floor.
Nothing,' said Fenworth, 'should distract from a wizard's dignity.
Donita K. Paul
#90. [A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently place, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an egg-shell, a bit of string.
H.G.Wells
#91. A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.
William Stafford
#92. Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.
Ron Paul
#93. Cats of all kinds will set ambushes: one frisks around in the open to distract your attention while another one slips quietly up behind.
Margaret Atwood
#94. That's the secret - to distract the senses. Have I told you my theory about them? I think that our sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing are all calibrated for the enjoyment of a perfect world. But since the world is imperfect, we must put blinders on the senses.
Rohinton Mistry
#95. ALBUS/RON: How to distract Scorpius from difficult emotional issues. Take him to a library.
J.K. Rowling
#96. You say potato, I say potahto." "I say rice pilaf. I say you're trying to distract me with talk of side dishes.
Josh Lanyon
#97. There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.
Joan Didion
#98. Now all I have to worry about is what might crawl out of the darkness to get me in the night."
"Yeah, well, I think there's a box of doughnuts under the chair. You can toss those to distract it.
Elle Parker
#99. I bought into the myth that you are not complete without romantic love, without a mate. And it can really distract you from your goals. But sometimes you have to take a leap.
Diane Lane
#100. I'm scared, but I need to get out of this room. I need to find ways to distract the gnawing pain that feeds off of every surface of my body.
Sara Farizan
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