Distractions Quotes

190 Distractions quotes by 170 unique authors

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried… — Barack Obama
People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would… — Chuck Palahniuk
President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating.… — Paul Ryan
One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing. — Bruce Sterling
You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats of… — Clarence Thomas
I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no… — Josh Turner
I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need… — Rufus Wainwright
I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted. — Scott Weiland
Wonder knows that while you cannot look at the light, you cannot look at anything else without it. It is not exhausted by childhood, but… — Ravi Zacharias
If you don’t know your purpose, discover it, now. The core of your life is your purpose. Everything in your life, from your diet to… — David Deida
Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world. — Edna O'Brien
Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between,… — Clive Barker
Your life does matter. It always matters whether you reach out in friendship or lash out in anger. It always matters whether you live with… — John Robbins
No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide. — Chuck Palahniuk
War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the… — Francesca Lia Block
It was like noticing the sun. You couldn't help but see it, to turn to face the heat of it, to bask in the glory… — Laurell K. Hamilton
I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of… — Malcolm X
It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me wants to run… — Henri Nouwen
The more you pursue distractions, the less effective any particular distraction is, and so I'd had to up various dosages, until, before I knew it,… — Jonathan Franzen
So I simply don't buy the concept of "Generation X" as the "lost generation." I see too many good kids out there, kids who are… — Johnny Cash
In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions. — Aldous Huxley
And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to her so that only… — Jeanette Winterson
The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political… — Noam Chomsky
But Hey, Guess What Crazy means I'm not liable for my actions. So screw it, I'll go home, propped up on Prozac against distractions — Ellen Hopkins
I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food. — Suzanne Collins

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