Quotes About Head In The Sand

#1. The ostrich-approach of burying your head in the sand, when confronting your areas of weakness, becomes a self-set trigger for failure.

Archibald Marwizi

#2. When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#3. Most Americans have their head in the sand about evolution.

Rafael Cruz

#4. I always say, if you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.

Herbie Mann

#5. Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it's not going to protect you from the coming storm.

Barack Obama

#6. When you bury your head in the sand, at least you don't get slapped in the face.

Kim Askew

#7. There's always a place for the angry young man with his fist in the air and his head in the sand. He's never been able to learn from mistakes, he can't understand why his heart always breaks.

Billy Joel

#8. Sticking your head in the sand does not prevent the tide from coming in.

K.J.

#9. If you stick your head in the sand like an ostrich, pretending you don't exist - why get upset when the world agrees with you/

Christina Engela

#10. My Ego taught me a new pride, I teach it to men: No longer to bury the head in the sand of heavenly things, but to carry it freely, an earthly head which creates meaning for the earth!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. You can do one of two things. You can bury you head in the sand and believe what everyone tells you - that you will always be that young, that thin and that fabulous. Or you can use all the things you have - talent, contacts, knowledge - and do something different.

Cat Deeley

#12. Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.

Brian McDermott

#13. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes in around her.

Dan Brown

#14. God does not call us to rest seven days a week with our head in the sand. He calls us to make an impact wherever we are.

Phil Callaway

#15. Bury my head in the sand and go with the status quo or find myself in the rubble and move on. I'd chosen the latter and that had led me here to him. Heaven help me.

Jordan Silver

#16. Some people are averse to change, but the advertising model is going to change with or without the Hopper. What we're saying to the broadcasters is, 'There's a way for you not to put your head in the sand.'

Charlie Ergen

#17. Estate taxes make every one of us nervous. If there's an owner who isn't, he has his head in the sand.

Dan Rooney

#18. It is easier to invest for cash flow during a financial crisis. So don't waste a good crisis by hiding your head in the sand. The longer the crisis lasts, the richer some people will become.

Robert Kiyosaki

#19. If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.

Ralph Merkle

#20. History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics issue because it sounds too science fiction.

Peter Singer

#21. The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it.

Katherine Mansfield

#22. Look at climate change; don't put your head in the sand. Understand that it is going to have profound effects on our resources and so much else.

Hillary Clinton

#23. Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#24. And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.

Mac Thornberry

#25. I don't want to kill ads. I think advertising is great, and I'm very aware that there's multiple revenue streams in television, subscription and advertising. But I also don't want to put my head in the sand, and I think the world is changing.

Charlie Ergen

#26. I could either wait it out or pack my bags, but I could't force a confrontation with a man who refused to be confronted. So I did what a lot of women do: I kept my head in the sand. And I waited for winter to be over.

Christina Bartolomeo

#27. I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering.

Ram Dass

#28. America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

Woodrow Wilson

#29. If it's hemorrhaging cash, you've got to do something about it. You can't live with your head in the sand.

Jim Ratcliffe

#30. When you bury your head in the sand you leave your backside exposed to those who seek to take advantage.

Gary Hopkins

#31. Gentlemen, as sure as I'm sitting here now, the result of continuation of a non-system, the ostrich-like head-in-the-sand attitude, the constant rejection of any efforts to solve this problem, will produce an Armageddon in the American population in those states where there is a big problem.

Dianne Feinstein

#32. He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts.

George Carman

#33. I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.

Lupita Nyong'o

#34. In my job you can't just put your head in the sand and throw partisan bombshells. You have to get results.

Amy Klobuchar

#35. I think we need to change that old saying, "I don't need a building to fall on me." Because two did and we still don't get it. I think we all stick our head in the sand as a deep human impulse.

Bill Maher

#36. Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes

Dan Brown

#37. You change or you hide your head in the sand.

Tony Gilroy

#38. It may be bliss not to know a tornado is coming because you have no need to worry or take action. But while your head is in the sand your bum is in the air, the tornado is still coming.

David Icke

#39. When your head is firmly in the sand, another part of your anatomy is fully exposed.

Don Feder

#40. I'm also big on journaling. You can write in the sand or on a watermelon or whatever suits you, but the key is to get it out of your head and out of your heart and down your arms and into something, a keyboard or piece of paper.

Deborah King

#41. I was really surprised at the success of 'House of Sand and Fog,' because it is so awfully dark. Believe it or not, when writing it, I never had the word 'tragedy' in my head - I wasn't trying to write a dark book at all.

Andre Dubus III

#42. His great carved wooden head was marked with a black eye that was more yellow than black and from this spectacular bed of bruised flesh the eye itself, sand irritated, bloodshot, as wild as a currawong's, stared out at a landscape in which the tops of fences protruded from windswept sand.

Peter Carey

#43. I felt as though someone had snuck in and packed my head with beach sand, even including the bottle caps and cigarette butts.

Jeff Lindsay

#44. [ ... ]And his head is on fire with new things[ ... ]he called himself the little blue hermit, scuttling across the sand in search of a new shell, but now he looks at the sky and knows that no shell will ever be big enough, ever.

Terry Pratchett

#45. When someone's been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track of everything in your head. But it's like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand: all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you're just clutching air and grit.

Jenny Han

#46. Now that would be a good way to face Armageddon, fighting it every step of the way, or should you choose to be an Ostrich, well you can go out with your head buried in the sand.

Steve Merrick