Ignored Quotes

• Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Positivity

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 14, 2014

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• If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.

  Lykke Li

  Creating, Being Ignored, Finding Yourself

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• I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.

  Talib Kweli

  Spiritual, Moon, Hands

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• If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Regret, Feelings, Might

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• The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!

  Brian Cox

  Fun, Rights, Religion

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• there are only so many ways to get rejected or ignored. It doesn't hurt at all anymore because why should someone who's a complete stranger have any control over your sense of selfworth?

  Neil Strauss

  Hurt, Way, Stranger

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.282, Canongate Books

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• Calls ignored, texts unanswered, short replies, excuses made. All I can say is don't be surprised when you're not in my future.

  Behdad Sami

  Excuse, Made, My Future

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• Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe, whose timeless standards cannot be ignored with impunity.

  James Dobson

  Attitude, Men, Determined

  James C. Dobson (1992). “Dr. Dobson Answers Your Questions: Marriage & Sexuality”, Tyndale House Publishers

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• Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  Proper Studies "A Note on Dogma" (1927)

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• We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.

  Jimmy Wales

  Impact, People, Being Ignored

  The Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. June 29, 2007.

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• It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.

  Sloan Wilson

  Children, Kindness, Being Ignored

  Sloan Wilson (1976). “What shall we wear to this party?: The man in the gray flannel suit twenty years before & after”, Arbor House Publishing

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• I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

  Damien Hirst

  Inspirational, Change, Art

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• The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of those places where you shouldnt.

  Colum McCann

  Being Ignored, Novelists, Benefits

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• My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music.

  Helen Reddy

  Baby, People, Being Ignored

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• There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

  Sean Penn

  Inspiration, Being Ignored, Individuality

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• I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.

  Julia Roberts

  Teacher, Being Ignored, Shapes

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• War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

  T. S. Eliot

  War, May, Accepted

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.215, Faber & Faber

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• I hate being ignored.

  Amanda Palmer

  Hate, Being Ignored, I Hate

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Past, Gaps, Generations

  Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “Frankly speaking: a collection of extraordinary speeches”

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• I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.

  Dominic Cooper

  Fun, Regret, Dull

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• Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

  Agatha Christie

  Inspirational, Christian, Mother And Daughter

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• That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power has ever paid to Reason.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Hands, Law, Being Ignored

  Opening statement for the prosecution before International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany, 21 Nov. 1945

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• Our Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects of sin on reason. When this is ignored, we adopt an Enlightenment optimism about the role of a supposedly neutral reason in the recognition of truth.

  James K. A. Smith

  Christian, Optimism, Appreciate

  James K. A. Smith (2006). “Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church”, p.28, Baker Academic

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• [on the voice of the intelligence] It is drowned out by the roar of fear.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Fear, Voice, Biased

  The Progressive, October 1955.

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• Hard work can't be ignored forever.

  John Moraga

  Art, Hard Work, Forever

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