#ignore

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#ignore #like #offer #own #return

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. ↗

— George Santayana

#deny #else #ignore #living #monstrous

I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed. ↗

— Rick Santelli

#anyone #around #believe #fires #getting

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#becomes #begins #between #death #emotion

I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there is an immense amount of suffering in it, and just as we think that the Nazis were wrong to ignore the suffering of their victims, so we are wrong to ignore the sufferings of our victims. ↗

— Peter Singer

#amount #clear #factory #farming #holocaust

Today's society will ignore almost any form of public behavior except getting in the express line with two extra items. ↗

— Paul Sweeney

#any #behavior #except #express #extra

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

— Lawrence Taylor

#everything #game #had #i #ignored

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap. ↗

— Spiro T. Agnew

#contemporary #gap #generation #generation gap #ignored

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love. ↗

— Nhat Hanh

#ignore #know #love #love is #needs

For me, it’s not about winning an award. It’s also about not even being nominated. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#honor #ignored #nominated #nomination #praise