Inattentive Quotes

#1. A life to hold, or to see slip through uncaring and inattentive hands, but always a life. And given one, we wish for two, or three, or more, so easily forgetting the one we had was spent unwisely

R.J. Ellory

#2. While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.

George Washington

#3. My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.

Hannah Gadsby

#4. I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness ... It is the inattentive reader
who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.

Michel De Montaigne

#5. Okay, consider this. Say you're going to go on a long journey with someone by car. And the two of you will take turns driving. Which type of person would you choose? One who's a good driver, but inattentive, or an attentive person who's not such a good driver?

Haruki Murakami

#6. It is a great advantage for any man to be able to talk or hear, neither ignorantly nor absurdly, upon any subject; for I have known people, who have not said one word, hear ignorantly and absurdly; it has appeared by their inattentive and unmeaning faces.

Doug Stanhope

#7. The great art of memory is attention ... Inattentive people have always bad memories.

William Walker Atkinson

#8. In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.

Quentin Crisp

#9. Speech is silver, but silence is golden when hearers are inattentive.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#10. The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Andrew Jackson

#11. I let the barren-void melody of his voice lilt its way through the inattentive chambers of my brain.

John Darnielle

#12. My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life and discovered that despite how lazy and inattentive I was as a child, I had managed to accidentally learn quite a bit about gardening.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#13. Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.

Michael Schudson

#14. I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

William Trevor

#15. I am quite wiling to confide entirely in human being, except that at some moment or another human beings get preoccupied, moody, busy, inattentive, and there come an end to the interest, and this never happens in a journal!

Anais Nin

#16. When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.

Chinua Achebe

#17. Or maybe it is only that we are so habitually inattentive that when some rare but simple geometry grabs us by the shoulders and shakes us into consciousness, we call our response sacred.

Charles Frazier

#18. The inattentive, slovenly way we drift into the presence of God is an indication that we are not bothering to think about Him. Whenever our Lord spoke of prayer, He said, "Ask." It is impossible to ask if you do not concentrate.

Oswald Chambers

#19. Pray, how violent was Mr. Bingley's love?" "I never saw a more promising inclination; he was growing quite inattentive to other people, and wholly engrossed by her. Every time they met, it was more decided and remarkable. At

Jane Austen

#20. By being inattentive to the needs of others, inevitably we end up harming them.

Dalai Lama

#21. That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope to be. Thus our memory and our identity are ever at odds; our history ever a tale told by inattentive idealists.

Ralph Ellison

#22. If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.

Thomas Jefferson

#23. What happens when you return
and find nothing
but a hollowed shell,
shingles and floor,
walls and echoes
and the light that lead you here
has now burned out
and the ones who built it
have traveled afar
and you cant go to them,
no matter what shoes you wear.

Kellie Elmore

#24. You have to go out and learn jazz by playing.

Paul Horn

#25. There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.

Edith Hamilton

#26. Little Dorrit that she had not seen Mr F.'s Aunt so full of life and character for weeks; that she would find it necessary to

Charles Dickens

#27. God allows himself to be humiliated and crucified in the Son, in order to free the oppressors and the oppressed from oppression and to open up to them the situation of free, sympathetic humanity.

Jurgen Moltmann

#28. I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

Jesse Ventura

#29. Your words are like mirrors.
They may cut, but they also reflect.

Timothy Joshua

#30. Without emotional response, love is an act of self-deceiving self-satisfaction by an unsatisfied self.

Mohammed Ali Bapir

#31. You don't dream about angles and surfaces and so on. You dream about women, bread, smokes and trees.

Jean Helion

#32. Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.

David Frum