Ignore It Quotes

#1. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.

E. M. Forster

#2. Pull the string. If you see something wrong, follow it to its end. Don't just fix the symptom and ignore it. If you keep pulling the string you might find the whole blanket falls apart right in front of your eyes. That is the only way to fix the big problems.

Alex Fleming

#3. He is always there, and the reasonable side of me always makes sure to push him down as far as I can. I notice it, but I always make sure to ignore it.

Melissa Grijalva

#4. Perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly ...

Nan Fairbrother

#5. The image of the "self-destructive artist" is a culturally implanted kill switch. Ignore it. Imagination is a weapon; you have been indoctrinated with these images so that if you discover the weapon, you will use it on yourself and save them the trouble.

Jason Louv

#6. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.

John Green

#7. I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.

Paulo Coelho

#8. I am conscious of the fact that the subject of hell is not a very pleasant one. It is very unpopular, controversial, and misunderstood ... As a minister I must deal with it. I cannot ignore it.

Billy Graham

#9. The truth often hurts. That's why so many ignore it.

Unknown

#10. Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

Susan B. Anthony

#11. I think life is politics anyway. You can't ignore it, but you can go very wrong in politics. You can say what you thought 50 years ago, but maybe you're wrong today. It's something very special, politics. I think you'd better be a good person in life every day - it's much more important.

Anna Karina

#12. As attorney general, I can either look into it or I can ignore it because they're a bunch of powerful legislators ... and I'm afraid they're going to cut my budget.

Ben Chandler

#13. I don't think it's the highest priority. I don't think we should ignore it, either, just generally I think as conservatives we should embrace innovation, embrace technology, embrace science ... Sometimes I sense that we pull back from the embrace of these things. We shouldn't.

Jeb Bush

#14. Most of what's around us we take for granted. We ignore it. Appreciation-spending time looking for the good-helps us overcome one of the primary limitations to enjoying the wealth we already have: ignoreance.

Peter McWilliams

#15. God make one mysterious beautiful creature in the world name GIRL
if you try to found mystery you will find beauty
and if you ignore it you will say
She is a Bitch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oncar Patcar

#16. You are excused from doing the work of constructing the fantasy. The ads do it for you. The ads, therefore, don't flatter your adult agency, or even ignore it - they supplant it.

David Foster Wallace

#17. Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so doing we ignore it as a moment which, at the time, is happening.

Ian Mortimer

#18. Sometimes it hurts to lose things, to leave them behind. We can't really forget them, so they linger. A twinge here, a sharp reminder there. The things we gain from the loss puts perspective on that pain. We can try to bury the pain, mask it, ignore it.

Melissa Foster

#19. I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom.

Esther Dyson

#20. Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.

John Cage

#21. What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more.

Gunter Grass

#22. The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.

Patrick Young

#23. Your hard dick is poking me in the ass. I can no more ignore it than if you slapped me in the face with it.

Kristen Callihan

#24. Iberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks.

Michelle Malkin

#25. The thing you are passionate about is not random; it stems from an inner yearning. Don't ignore it or allow others to talk you out of it. Go get it!

Steve Maraboli

#26. I like to go with the energy because when you ignore it that's when you start doing things wrong.

Dana Plato

#27. Man can't handle the chaos. Oh, you can understand it in the abstract, as long as you don't think about it too hard. But at the core of it, whenever humans come against chaos, they deal with it in one of three ways ... Faced with chaos you will either ignore it, dance around it, or you will go mad.

Ilona Andrews

#28. Drugging out symptoms does not solve the problem, it helps us ignore it - until the vehicle breaks down.

Bruce H. Lipton

#29. Keep in mind that therapy is a deep and comprehensive exploration into the course and meaning of one's life; given the centrality of death in our existence, given that life and death are interdependent, how can we possibly ignore it?

Irvin D. Yalom

#30. Over the years, I learned to smile or laugh when I was supposed to. I kept my true self hidden; I did not need to unleash my pain on the world around me. Instead, I taught myself to ignore it. I did not realize that the pain was eating away at my soul.

J.D. Stroube

#31. Truth is often uncomfortable. It is only comforting to those who do not wish to ignore it. Then, truth becomes not only comforting, but inspiring.

Neale Donald Walsch

#32. You think that's the solution to everything, don't you, Bane? Drinking and dancing and making love ... but I tell you this, something is coming, and we'd be fools to ignore it."
"When have I ever claimed not to be a fool?

Cassandra Clare

#33. I think there are a lot of actors who act because they have an impulse to do it and they can't ignore it.

Kristen Stewart

#34. I choose to ignore hell in my life. When I was a little kid I asked my Dad "Am I going to go to hell?" because I'd heard about hell. And he said, "Nothing you're gonna do will get you into hell." And so I got to ignore it.

Adam Sandler

#35. What do you do when other countries' intelligence agencies give you information and you aren't entirely certain about its source? Simply ignore it? That's impossible. We have a duty to guarantee the safety of our citizens.

Angela Merkel

#36. Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us that is what they are; because the rest of them is no good to us, we ignore it.

W. Somerset Maugham

#37. For better or for worse, at this time science is still the most trustworthy mirror of reality, and we ignore it only at our peril.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#38. We do not have to get rid of consumer-capitalist society before we can begin to build the new way. The way to replace the old system is to ignore it to death.

Ted Trainer

#39. Change is like a charging cow. Don't ignore it - milk it

Andrew Leigh

#40. I was to be a justifier, my task would be to deny the unpredictable human element of all Harlem so that they could ignore it when it in any way interfered with their plans.

Ralph Ellison

#41. I knew it the moment I saw the scar, saw the flatness behind her eyes, like a pool that has lost all its depth.
Either she doesn't detect the challenge or she chooses to ignore it.

Lauren Oliver

#42. Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.

Charles R. Swindoll

#43. I think it's exactly like that. When you think you can't do it anymore. You have to ignore it and keep going. Trust in your training.

Amy Jo Cousins

#44. You just ignore it! It's not that you don't care anymore, it's that you stop listening and paying attention to it. Because everybody has an opinion. Talk is cheap - it's free! And I say that like, if you don't like the stuff I have to say, pay me no mind - it will cost you nothing.

Donald Faison

#45. Have a problem with ageism, overt and especially covert. My feeling about a person's age is that it's a serving suggestion. It's up to you what you do with it: take it as offered, modify it, or ignore it altogether.

Elizabeth Berg

#46. 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.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#47. The Chinese government clearly does pay attention to public opinion expressed on the Internet - the extent to which they choose to adapt their practices based on it, or ignore it, seems to vary.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#48. Prehistory of mankind is way too horrible to be remembered.
But if we choose to ignore it, then we'll be doomed to repeat it.

Toba Beta

#49. I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives.

William Wilberforce

#50. People have the right to their opinion and you have the right to ignore it.

Joel Osteen

#51. 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.

Steve Capus

#52. If there's one thing I learned in Alanon, it's that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when you ignore it.

Vicki Covington

#53. Christian, that sin which first came between you and God is bad, but that is not the last step in the progress of sin. The most guilty part in this quadruple sin is to hide it, deny it, ignore it, refust to confess it, refuse to repent of it!

John R. Rice

#54. Step forward again, hold the shield steady. Peer over the top. Fear is screaming somewhere deep. Ignore it. You can smell the shit now. Shit and blood, the stench of glory. The enemy is more frightened. Kill them. Keep the shields steady. Kill.

Bernard Cornwell

#55. Having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat ...

Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

#56. Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises.

Charles Wheelan

#57. As far as you are concerned, the stock market does not exist. Ignore it.

Warren Buffett

#58. I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.

Barbara Kingsolver

#59. Becoming an entrepreneur is like walking through flames. You either ignore it, deal with it or be engulfed by it. You must realize when you make it, the burns will heal and you'll become a better person because of it.

James Jean-Pierre

#60. How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it

Maurice Sendak

#61. With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline.
Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#62. Human beings are cursed with the knowledge of their own mortality. They are, however, blessed with the ability to ignore it.

Adam B. Ford

#63. If you find the truth within you, it will save you. If you ignore it, it will destroy you.

Sheila Kohler

#64. Strength acknowledges weakness, it doesn't ignore it.

Jewel E. Ann

#65. Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#66. The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple.

Byron Dorgan

#67. It's dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you're trying to present your music to people. I don't ignore it completely, but I don't dwell on it too much.

Conor Oberst

#68. We've been so busy with these things we let ourselves think actually mattered, but they don't. There's no such thing as the right career, or morality, or destiny, or fate. There's only life. And whether you honor it or ignore it. It's ironic, but in trying to find God we've been ignoring life.

Trevor D. Richardson

#69. Among many events in life, failure is a small event, so ignore it and prepare for another one.

Debasish Mridha

#70. Don't take anything personally. You're going to come up against a lot and the best thing is to ignore it and don't let the bastards get you down and keep moving forward because you are going to be treated differently.

Leslye Headland

#71. The government's beating us down, and it all begins with those goddamn lines in the parking lot. Set yourself free, my brother. If you see a line, ignore it.

Debra Anastasia

#72. The only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you cant ignore it, top it; if you cant top it, laugh at it; if you cant laugh at it, its probably deserved

Russell Lynes

#73. Do not ignore it. Fuck it. Cry your heart out. Then fuck it some more.

Charles Bukowski

#74. You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.

Len Evans

#75. A small part of my mind is willing me to walk away now before he has the opportunity to do just that to me, but I find it easy to ignore it.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#76. If you suffer misfortune ... do you damnedest to ignore it. Wallowing in what-might-have-beens and what-could have-happeneds will only keep your emotional wounds festering.

Shelly Branch

#77. The flux of life is pouring its aesthetic aspect into your eyes, your ears - and you ignore it because you are looking for your canons of beauty in some sort of frame or glass case or tradition.

Mina Loy

#78. Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don't hold on to that .

Diana Ross

#79. This is my wife, Trish. The Good Lord overwhelms her on occasion. I find it best to just ignore it,

Kristen Ashley

#80. One need not be a saint, or even a mother, to become a bearer of God. One needs only to obey. The divine resides in all of us, but it is our choice to magnify it or diminish it, to ignore it or to surrender to its lead.

Rachel Held Evans

#81. Life's pretty friggin' mean most of the time. People got real problems and real shit to cry about, but this isn't it. This is the good stuff, and I've been kicked by life one too many times to just ignore it when something sweet falls in my lap.

Kele Moon

#82. That's the last order I'll ever give you Captain. Don't you dare ignore it.

Eoin Colfer

#83. To listen to criticism and act on it if it is valid and ignore it if it is not is a sign of intelligence.

Chloe Thurlow

#84. But our tendency to give scarcity more attention than abundance has caused us to ignore the many examples of abundance that have arisen in our own lifetime, like corn, for starters. The problem is that once something becomes abundant, we tend to ignore it,

Chris Anderson

#85. Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.

Gillian Flynn

#86. When God puts love and compassion in your heart toward someone, He's offering you an opportunity to make a difference in that person's life. You must learn to follow that love. Don't ignore it. Act on it. Somebody needs what you have.

Joel Osteen

#87. Salman Rushdie said, "A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return."
So if someone tells me I've written something that's historically inaccurate, I can just tell them, "Salman Rushdie said I could."

Veronica Bale

#88. I realized that I had the choice. I could give this moment a meaning, or I could choose to ignore it. It just depended on the kind of story I wanted to tell myself.

Dan Chaon

#89. Letting the radio play on without giving it much attention is very different from actively trying to ignore it.

Russ Harris

#90. God gave you the art to talk and you will just ignore it like these?

Deyth Banger

#91. A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Salman Rushdie

#92. No matter how badly you push it away and ignore it, the pain of loss never really goes away.

Karina Halle

#93. I've got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.

Bill Watterson

#94. With success comes unhelpful criticism - ignore it.

Suze Orman

#95. Life," said Marvin dolefully, "loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it.

Douglas Adams

#96. No matter how hard we try to ignore it, the mind always knows truth and wants clarity.

Toni Morrison

#97. The human need to play is a powerful one. When we ignore it, we feel there is something missing in our lives.

Leo Buscaglia

#98. I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.

Damien Hirst

#99. Love happens. It's what you do with it that matters. If you embrace it, it will give you a joy you have never known was possible. If you ignore it, it has the power to haunt you.

Kathleen Brooks

#100. It seemed the more he tried to ignore it, the more it would sneak up on him and catch him off guard.

Brandon Witt