Ignored Quotes

523 quotes by 460 authors

To me the notion that Palestinians are actually Jews is, I think, quite revelatory and very radical and a possible bridge that has been ignored,… — Lawrence Wright
When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These… — C.S. Lewis
You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time. — William Landay
It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the… — Kevin Myers
I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a… — James Ellroy
Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to… — Andrew Coyle Bradley
I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously… — Dave Brubeck
Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero.… — Patricia Hill Collins
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
After America won the Cold War, some believed we had come to the 'end of history,' and budget-cutters celebrated the so-called 'peace dividend.' As a… — Frank Gaffney
You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do. — Carolyn Kizer
Young and old will sit and judge unfeeling, while the empty churches' bells are pealing. And the green hills lay ignored, untended, lonely watchers remain… — Pete Townshend
Part of what's unique about climate change, though, is the nature of some of the opposition to action. It's pretty rare that you'll encounter somebody… — Barack Obama
I hollowed out, stopped listening to music, never picked up a pencil, started slipping into old habits. All of the vibrancy I used to see… — Gerard Way
I wasn't a big fan of social anthropology. And, luckily, that created room for me to work in visual arts because I sort of ignored… — Darren Aronofsky
Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known cooacters can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence of genes in… — Thomas Hunt Morgan
Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that… — Aldous Huxley
What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in shaping history. He is far… — Eric Hoffer
Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to… — Mervyn Peake
I regularly find myself waking up to art I passed by or simply ignored. — Charles Saatchi

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