#ignore

There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it. ↗

— Esther Williams

#drinking #hughes #ignored #lunch #men

I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest. ↗

— Venus Williams

#focus #goals #i #ignore #rest

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#become #clear #freedom #ignored #longer

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#disappear #enough #ignore #long #only

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, I think, in this entire controversy and there's ample evidence to support it. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#ample #been #bridge #controversy #entire

Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#attention #critics #even #ignore #pay

What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#any #campaigns #decided #face #feel

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#failing #idea #ideas #ignores #itself

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#criticism #find #ignores #investigate #man

Our fumbling government's response since Beirut - during both Republican and Democratic administrations - has been to cut and run, or to flat ignore this growing threat, apparently hoping it would go away. ↗

— David Hackworth

#away #been #beirut #both #cut