Distraction Quotes

The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eter...

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earl...

Eighteen pockets in one suit? I haven't the time.

Our feelings of anxiety are genuine but confused signals that something is amiss, and so need to be ...

Work, the gospel of work, the sanctity of work, laborare est orare - all that tripe and nonsense. 'W...

In such an admirable position of the New World, man has no other enemy than himself.

The author says the earliest Australian aborigines devoted extraordinary amounts of energy to enterp...

I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.

We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill a...

In politics, nothing good ever comes from the unexpected.

I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've sp...

you turn into a shrewd tactician, making a series of cautious semicommitments without really surrend...

Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for suc...

It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts...

Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was ther...

As with our colleges, so with a hundred ‘modern improvements;’ there is an illusion about them; ther...

Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment...

People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see t...

... answered his knock with a smile, a short one forced through because she was at heart a warm pers...

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you a...

Oh, don't go on like that!" cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. "Consider what a gr...

Watching movies is my one distraction.

Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history." Ge...

Being self-owned is a state of mind.

Sometimes I think it is because we remember when we could smoke in pubs, and that we pull our phones...

The narrator refers to a character as "an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that ...

weren’t you alwaysdistracted by expectation, as if every eventannounced a beloved? (Where can you fi...

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, c...

The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like sch...