Worldly Distractions Quotes

#1. When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.

Phyllis Bottome

#2. Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

Clive Barnes

#3. Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#4. The 'great' commitment is so much easier than the ordinary everyday one.

Dag Hammarskjold

#5. Don't let the things of the world distract you. Focus on your purpose

Sunday Adelaja

#6. But with summer comes hope, and with hope comes disappointment.

Sara Baume

#7. long squirrel guns

Margaret Mitchell

#8. In the mountains, worldly attachments are left behind, and in the absence of material distractions, we are opened up to spiritual thought. We should be attempting to carry the spiritual experience of the mountains with us everywhere.

Jamling Tenzing Norgay

#9. With a bit of luck and a lot of hard work, this writing thing may just pan out.

Rebel Miller

#10. For me it was just important to play my game and believe until the end. Even now, Venus is not in the top 10, but you can still feel she can be back again.

Elena Vesnina

#11. By way of this unprecedented, unbridled literary promiscuity, I have made some pleasant discoveries.

Anna Lyndsey

#12. Miss Barnes clearly didn't know what in the world to do. She was twenty-four years old, for heaven's sake.

Liane Moriarty