Easier To Ignore Quotes

#1. Faith is always supposed to make it harder, not easier, to ignore the plight of our sisters and brothers. (p. 165)

Robin R. Meyers

#2. Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names; but once you know, everything changes.

David Platt

#3. Cheesy lines like that will get you nowhere with me, but, by all means, keep them coming. You're so much easier to ignore when you're being an idiot.

Kelly Oram

#4. Oh, talking is not so bad as that," said the Jester. "True, most people say only silly things when they speak. But it's easier to ignore them if you're saying silly things yourself.

Pseudonymous Bosch

#5. I let myself get lost in the fantasies I created when I was looking at the world through my lens. Life was easier to ignore when I was busy pretending for other people.

Claire Contreras

#6. When you know what's important, it's a lot easier to ignore what's not.

Marie Forleo

#7. Under the olive trees, from the ground Grows this flower, which is a wound. It is easier to ignore Than the heroes' sunset fire Of death plunged in their willed desire Raging with flags on the world's shore.

Stephen Spender

#8. We learned that orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names. They are easier to ignore before you see their faces. It is easier to pretend they're not real before you hold them in your arms. But once you do, everything changes.

David Platt

#9. As oblivious as we can be to our own strengths, it's even easier to ignore the particular and unique strengths of others.

Marcus Buckingham

#10. I can only imagine how difficult it must be for someone facing racial or social prejudices to add autism to their list of struggles. It might be less stressful and at times, easier, to ignore the autism.

Liane Holliday Willey

#11. It is undeniably easier to ignore the hardships of those who are too weak to demand their rights than to respond sensitively to their needs. To care is to accept responsibility, to dare to act in accordance with the dictum that the ruler is the strength of the helpless.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#12. Conscientious stupidity is a religion for most. Many will deny it, but it's those same people that find it easier to ignore the truth. This religion can only be followed by their humble ignorance. It's safe to assume, that this religion is an illusion of knowledge.

Lionel Suggs

#13. It's easier to ignore all the bad shit in the light. Distract yourself with work and TV and other people. The dark is just ... bad memories. Bad dreams. I don't like to be left alone with all that.

Ruthie Knox

#14. Knowledge can hurt because you can't turn away from things
anymore. You can't pretend you're blind to what's happening," he
said. "It's a lot easier to ignore something you don't want to accept
than to face it.

Katie Kacvinsky

#15. We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

Jessamyn West

#16. Ignore you, sweetheart? I think it would be easier to stop breathing.
-Vasili

Johanna Lindsey

#17. I've known plenty of couples who choose to ignore budding problems or dissatisfactions because it's easier in the moment. But too much of that for long enough, and you all of a sudden have a huge problem on your hands, or a midlife crisis, or a broken marriage.

Fawn Weaver

#18. Think of normal as being what God intends for your life," Mark said. "Un-normal is everything that's something other than His plans for you. Life gets easier that way, Gina. Go ahead and stress about what you should care about, but ignore the rest.

Dee Henderson

#19. Curiouser and curiouser!

Lewis Carroll

#20. I parked somewhere where I would probably get a ticket. I planned to ignore it. Anarchists have a much easier time finding parking spots.

Jim Butcher

#21. Because to ignore what had happened in the recent and distant pasts, to turn away and look elsewhere because it was easier to do so, was to be an accomplice to the crimes that were committed. To refuse to delve deeper would be to collude with the offenders.

John Connolly

#22. Celaena stared at the dark, tilled earth, a chill wind rustling her veil.
Her chest ached, but this was the one last thing she had to do, the one last honor she could give her friend.
Celaena tilted her head to the sky, closed her eyes, and began to sing.

Sarah J. Maas

#23. Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its understanding.

Maude Meagher

#24. It's easier for parents to ignore, to pretend that everything's great and then do whatever they want while convinced it's something you want, too.

Sophie Jordan

#25. I even do my ready-to-wear samples like couture.

Azzedine Alaia

#26. Psychology is a big part of sport that some people do not realise. But it is a skill you have to practice.

Jade Jones

#27. Ma? I think you have the spirit of husband-repelling. You are too hard, ma, you will not find a husband. But my pastor can destroy that spirit.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#28. There is evil in the world. Things might be easier if there wasn't, if good and evil were just concepts men invented to justify themselves; we could ignore them, then. Sadly, good and evil are both very real, and very inconvenient.

Seanan McGuire

#29. His cold, unmoving face startled me, but the warmth from his hands left me curious and longing for more of his touch.

Magan Vernon