Ignored Quotes - Page 2

• I'm slowly becoming a repository for decomposing sorrows, regrets, ignored injustice, and forgotten promises. I can still feel its stench. But when I get accustomed to it, I will call it experience.

  Mesa Selimovic

  Regret, Promise, Sorrow

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• Fame is not the worst thing. I went to dinner the other night, and the girls in the restaurant ignored me. It was so annoying.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Girl, Night, Dinner

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

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• What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Writing, Heart, Reader

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• Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

  Derek Walcott

  Heart, Mirrors, Letters

  Derek Walcott (2014). “The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013”, p.227, Macmillan

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• Use their tactics if you feel strongly enough. Make a nuisance of yourself. Make an official complaint. Take it to a tribunal. As an atheist youre part of a minority whose beliefs are constantly ignored and marginalised while religious prejudice is pandered to and encouraged, and you have every right to be offended by that... Remember, one person on their own cant do much, but a million people each doing a little every day can change things very quickly.

  Pat Condell

  Religious, Atheist, People

  "Laughing religion off the planet with Pat Condell". Interview with Dave McKeegan, freethinker.co.uk. February 27, 2008.

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• Conversion is not, as some suppose, a violent opening of the heart by grace, in which will, reason and judgment are all ignored or crushed. The season is not blinded, but enlightened; and the whole man is made to act with a glorious liberty which it never knew till it fell under the restraints of grace.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Men, Grace

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• Perhaps every time anyone is praised it means that someone else somewhere is going to be ignored

  Margaret Mahy

  Mean

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• [On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: "People should have ignored the five racist idiots.

  Nina Jacobson

  Should Have, Games, People

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• Political leaders in Illinois kicked the can down the road, raised taxes, and ignored fiscal realities. Now, they're realizing the consequences of their actions: credit downgrades and negative outlooks.

  Scott Walker

  Reality, Illinois, Leader

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• About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day, but it seems to me it´s just the contrary. Often it´s something you paid no attention to at the time -- a vague thought that you didn´t bother to think out to the end, words spoken without feeling and which passed unnoticed -- these are the things that return at night, clothed in flesh and blood, and they become the subjects of dreams, as if to make up for having been ignored during waking hours.

  Boris Pasternak

  Life, Dream, Strong

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• I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are all capable of it and furthermore that a small, often ignored corner of us positively yearns to try it.

  Stephen Fry

  Believe, Writing, Dark

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• We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new world from nothing if nothing in our world could be salvaged, it was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Thinking, Our World, Together

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Writing, Long, Being Ignored

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• Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn’t. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment.

  Richard Matheson

  Should Have, Biting, Given

  Richard Matheson (2007). “What Dreams May Come: A Novel”, p.38, Macmillan

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• Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber along with a host of diversions, my courtiers, wearing their colored clothes; caps and bells. And then once more the quiet mystery is present to me, the throng's clamor recedes: the mystery that there is anything, anything at all, let alone cosmos, joy, memory, everything, rather than void: and that, 0 Lord, Creator, Hallowed one, You still, hour by hour sustain it.

  Denise Levertov

  Memories, Clothes, Offering

  Denise Levertov (1997). “The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes”, p.33, New Directions Publishing

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• As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.

  Harvey Pekar

  Facts, Looks, Stories

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

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• Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

  David Byrne

  Decision, Mundane Life, Accumulation

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• I think Al Gore has done a great service in making global warming cool. He's basically taken it from a nerdy, almost ignored issue to making it what it is - namely, a problem.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Taken, Thinking, Issues

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

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• It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.

  Condoleezza Rice

  War, Years, Hussein

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• All right, everyone. Fess up. Who just shat in their pants? C'mon. Admit it." He raised his hand. I know I did and I'm wolf enough to own it." Jess ignored him. "Are you all right?" he asked Abigail. She was still a little too pale for his tastes. "I think I'm going to own Sasha's question. Definitely put me on your list.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Hands, Littles

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• I would never normally approach a woman in this way, but I couldn't help but notice that you have the eyes of a lady I was once desperately in love with. " "What a shame to love only once," she said, showing her white teeth in a wicked smile. "I've heard some men can manage twice or even more." I ignored her gibe. "I am only a fool once. Never will I love again.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Eye, Men, White

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.423, Penguin

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• I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life.

  Lawrence Taylor

  Sports, Strong, Games

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• I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell.

  Lee Tergesen

  Thinking, Cells, People

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• Book critics certainly are judges who wield a tremendous amount of power in terms of whether or not a book will reach a wider audience. That's one of the reasons why I try to give coverage to books written by Latinx writers; too many worthwhile works of literature do not get the kind of coverage they deserve, and I've certainly seen that with respect to books written by writers of color. But there are some wonderful, diverse writers out there who mentor and otherwise support those voices that often have been ignored by much of the mainstream press.

  Daniel Olivas

  Book, Giving, Judging

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• Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

  Al Capp

  Children, People, Should

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