Quotes About Ignoring Reality

#1. We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

Ayn Rand

#2. Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.

Lindsey Graham

#3. America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.

John McAfee

#4. Ignoring platforms that have gained critical mass is a great way to look slow and out-of-touch. Do not cling to nostalgia. Do not put your principles above the reality of the market. Do not be a snob.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#5. For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me.

Leonard Nimoy

#6. The real danger to the world's resistance movements is the attempt to distort reality and to place the blame on the resistance groups' actions without allowing them to portray their perspective, thus ignoring the reality of the occupation and the siege, like the situation in occupied Palestine.

Hassan Nasrallah

#7. Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.

Epicurus

#8. As I was sitting in my chair,
I knew the bottom wasn't there,
Nor legs nor back, but I just sat,
Ignoring little things like that.

Hughes Mearns

#9. Ignoring a Reality doesn't make it less Real. It's still going to happen. Being unprepared for something doesn't stop it from happening.

Yasmin Mogahed

#10. There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.

Rachel Roy

#11. But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.

Veronica Roth

#12. My social life is friends at the pool; I have just finished school as I am now a full-time athlete.

Jessica-Jane Applegate

#13. Some poets write pages upon pages because their hearts have a song to sing and their melodies cannot be contained in a single stanza... and I find myself typing out a quote because my soul is still gasping for breath, and all the words form a single sentence: I miss us.

Alfa H

#14. To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality.

Rob Lowe

#15. Ignoring our emotions is turning our back on reality. Listening to our emotions ushers us into reality. And reality is where we meet God. . . . Emotions are the language of the soul. They are the cry that gives the heart a voice. . .

Peter Scazzero

#16. In his mother's honor, vowing not to commit the "fashionable stupidity" of ignoring things he didn't understand, Max performed a brave act of nonconformity by accepting the possibility that his dreams might be exactly what they seemed: real.

Sol Luckman

#17. Nobody believes in anything without an inner feeling that it can be realized. This is the only source of dreamlike powers

Peter Altenberg

#18. I never knew she liked country music," Smitty said in awe.
Yeah, that must make her prime mate material for a Smith. She'll fit right in at one of your hootenannies."
-Mitch to Smitty

Shelly Laurenston

#19. And if you a G you a G-G-G. My name is Onika, you can call me Nicki.

Nicki Minaj

#20. They all sort of get mixed up in my head, to be quite honest. They're all dealing with similar things. It's about how you deal with reality, by ignoring it sometimes, reinventing it other times, and that's how you get through it.

Terry Gilliam

#21. You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.

Benjamin Hoff

#22. When in doubt, poke the beehive with a stick to see if anything interesting flies out.
I clapped my hands. 'I had no idea Pit teams had such pretty cheerleaders. Can you do it again, but with more spirit this time?

Ilona Andrews

#23. Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

John Irving

#24. There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job at the time.

Kate Adie

#25. Alister McGrath has now written two books with my name in the title. The poet W. B. Yeats, when asked to say something about bad poets who made a living by parasitizing him, wrote the splendid line, 'was there ever dog that praised his fleas?

Richard Dawkins

#26. All too familiar, he relived those few traumatic seconds at the wheel of Joe Henry's old black Framo van. He recalled his terror as he saw the border guard kneel down

Ken Follett

#27. Ignoring what goes on at home is a bad way to protect your child.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#28. The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we, too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!

Carl Bernstein

#29. Spin' is a polite word for deception. Spinners mislead by means that range from subtle omissions to outright lies. Spin paints a false picture of reality by bending facts, mischaracterizing the words of others, ignoring or denying crucial evidence, or just 'spinning a yarn' - by making things up.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson