Disregard Quotes

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. (George Orwell)
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. View quote
Dorothy Day
It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one. View quote
André Gide
As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
As revolutionary, I have no right to disregard the voice of the people. View quote
François Duvalier
A scientist ought to have a healthy disregard for coincidences. View quote
Fritz Leiber
Every golden age is as much a matter of disregard as of felicity. View quote
Michael Chabon
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. View quote
Thomas Sowell
Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan. View quote
Paul J. Meyer
Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature. View quote
Wilhelm Dilthey
Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there. (David Zucker)
To look for a continuation of harmony between a number of independent, unconnected sovereignties in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uniform course of human events, and to set at defiance the accumulated experience of ages. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it. View quote
Christian Slater
The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect. View quote
Willa Cather
The true investor scarcely ever has to sell his shares, and at all other times he is free di disregard the current price quotation. He need pay attention to it and act upon it only to the extent that it suits his book, and no more. Thus the investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basic advantage into a basic disadvantage. That man would be better off if his stocks had no market quotation at all, for he would then be spared the mental anguish caused him by other persons mistakes of judgement. View quote
Benjamin Graham
I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a name and a place, and then perhaps, such is the human mind, I shall come to think it a duty, and disregard other duties for it. View quote
Virginia Woolf
The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being. View quote
Sergei Eisenstein
You need to aim beyond what you are capable of. You must develop a complete disregard for where your abilities end. Try to do things that you're incapable of... If you think you're incapable of running a company, make that your aim... Make your vision of where you want to be a reality. Nothing is impossible. View quote
Paul Arden
Life would be a lot easier if conversations were rewindable and erasable, like videos. Or if you could instruct people to disregard what you just said, like in a courtroom. View quote
Sophie Kinsella
We as Americans and as humans have very selective hearing and very selective memory. We only hear what we want to hear and disregard the rest. View quote
Frank Luntz
I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past. (Clara Barton)
As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science. View quote
Louise Slaughter
I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. View quote
Naomi Scott
Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win. View quote
Roscoe Conkling
I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and disregard everything else about their background. View quote
Randall Kennedy