Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Sophocles

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
Adrian Mitchell

My overall message for labor members is... that we understand that the benefits of trade are clear, but the disruption and the dislocation are painfully concentrated and we can't ignore them.
Alexis Herman

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.
Robert Heller

No, seriously, I really don't have much ill-will toward anyone these days; I just ignore the people that I dislike.
Boyd Rice

Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties.
Frederick Pollock

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
Vince Lombardi

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

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.
Oscar Arias Sanchez

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.
Daphne Zuniga

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.
Anne Stevenson

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
Stendhal

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
John Updike

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

So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.
Lee H. Hamilton

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.
Walter Lippmann

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Thomas Sowell

Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.
Ang Lee

The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly when it was new to me but luckily, I've learned to ignore the comments. why do they even care about how I look?
Melanie Chisholm