#distraction

Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#beverage #book #comfortable #couch #distractions

I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth. ↗

— Bob Graham

#aims #come #completion #concluded #distraction

Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#distraction #resistance #art

Well, hell yeah! I’m gonna kick your ass, too!” I narrowed my eyes at him. “Not this time you’re not. I have a new superpower.” He laughed. “And what’s that? Harsh language?” I leaned over to kiss his neck once, and then ran my tongue up to his ear, kissing his earlobe. He froze in place. “Distraction,” I breathed into his ear. He grabbed my arms and flipped me onto my back. “You’re going to miss another class. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#beautiful-disaster #distraction #jamie-mcguire #sweet #travis-maddox

Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on?? ↗

— Jim Morrison

#entertaining #film #life #death

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 distractions that make life worth living. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#distractions #illusions #life #war #death

I’d find someone else. No distractions. Men get in the way of ambition. Plus, they laugh at you when you fail ↗

— Rose Pressey

#men #men

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#dictionaries #distraction #enough #excellent #impossible

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles. ↗

— Kit Williams

#calling #candles #defied #denied #distraction

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#distraction #form #materialism #only #true