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They covered their walls with beautiful paintings for the same reason they drank - to distract themselves from the abyss.
— Dominic Smith
The writing of history is largely a diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.
— Frank Herbert
Hold your breath and close your eyesDistract yourself with other guys
It's no surprise, your defeated sighs
Aren't you tired of the lies? — Cora Carmack
A Warrior of Light never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent.
— Paulo Coelho
You say potato, I say potahto." "I say rice pilaf. I say you're trying to distract me with talk of side dishes.
— Josh Lanyon
But seeking the temporary reward of the world's approval can distract us from seeking the eternal reward of the Lord's approval.
— Gloria Furman
I think about cars to try and distract myself. It's a good way to relax, take your mind off everything.
— Asafa Powell
When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.
— Mercedes McCambridge
Resistance is a repelling force. It's negative. Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work.
— Steven Pressfield
The more you can distract yourself, the better.
— Suzanne Collins
A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while.
— Ransom Riggs
Women, however charming, have this disadvantage: they distract the mind from food!
— Agatha Christie
When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Our state of wellness determines our response to any situation. Never allow the busyness of life to distract you from taking care of your well being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Gay marriage is a complete red herring to distract everyone from the economy and the war and health care and education.
— David O. Russell
I don't need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would. — Charlotte Eriksson
Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.
— Daniel Defoe
Are men like babies? Is trying to distract them a better tactic than asking them to behave reasonably?
— Sophie Hannah
Do the things external which fall upon thee distract thee? Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
— Marcus Aurelius
Women are for procreation, not recreation; they will only distract you.
— Malcolm Archibald
Leaving knots untied and scattering seeds to distract them will only work on vampires with OCD.
— Molly Harper
Many Christians are "devoured" by worldly interests that distract them from spiritual service to God.
— Victor H Ernest
Do not let pleasure distract you from meditation, from the way. Free yourself from pleasure and pain.
— Gautama Buddha
No. Don't distract me with your sexy talk.
— Rachel Hawkins
A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.
— William Stafford
The desire to please other people is a potent way to distract yourself from what you are feeling.
— Gary Zukav
I think it's possible for all of us to use our yoga to distract us from our yoga. Because we get so caught up in the form that we forget the soul.
— Judith Hanson Lasater
Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.
— Menachem Mendel Schneerson
It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.
— Bob Edwards
For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me.
— Aimee Bender
Brasher was alone with Stokes his calling might distract her and
— Michael Connelly
ALBUS/RON: How to distract Scorpius from difficult emotional issues. Take him to a library.
— J.K. Rowling
Let nothing distract you from your opponent. He is between you and the rest of your life, and you must move past him to see it.
— Scott James Magner
I've long been against illegal aliens, partly because they distract us from an even bigger threat: real aliens.
— Stephen Colbert
The difficulties of life should not distract you from the pursuit of your goals. Graciously pursue your goals.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.
— Steven Pressfield
The smartphones that distract us from our surroundings also distract us from the fact that our surroundings are strangely old:
— Peter Thiel
To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.
— Michel De Montaigne
Love of Christ does not distract us from interest in others, but rather invites us to responsibility for them, to the exclusion of no one ... .
— Pope John Paul II
But when you kill someone you love, the hard part is never over. It just gets easier to distract yourself from what you've done.
— Veronica Roth
Melody tried to distract me in a skirt made of brain skin.
— Steve Aylett
Having the big picture in mind enables us to overcome the day to day routines that attempt to distract us from pursuing our dream.
— Assegid Habtewold
Keep making a difference out there! Don't let the noise around you distract you from listening to the voice within you.
— Farshad Asl
We can distract ourselves with pleasure for only so long before beginning to wonder what the point is.
— Jeff Goins
I believe conspiracy theories are part of a larger conspiracy to distract us from the real conspiracy. String theory.
— Andy Kindler
Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer
— Saint Augustine
All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'
— Dan Stevens
These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve.
— Jerry A. Coyne
And that was the point of children, thought Caroline Meddey: to bind us to the earth and to the present, to distract us from death.
— Amanda Coplin
Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader's attention from the plain truth.
— Sidney Hook
Obviously a fake Kyp. You distract him. I'll shoot him under the table.Han (to Leia) — Aaron Allston
The things we think we want are often substitutes for what we really want, and the pleasures we seek are less than the joy that they distract us from.
— Charles Eisenstein
Is his benevolent art meant to distract us from Prospero's absolutist exercise of authority over his subjects?
— James Shapiro
The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.
— Robert Breault
Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
When working, my diet degrades to pizza three times a day, because I don't want to distract myself from anything.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Often the devil wants to distract us from our goal, to make us passive and neutralize our actions
— Sunday Adelaja
We know so little about ourselves that we often neglect the illusions we create to distract us from finding the answers we need.
— Robin Sacredfire
If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.
— Victoria Justice
I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.
— Andrew Carnegie
Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.
— Ted Kotcheff
WARNING: THE SURGEON GENERAL'S CRUSADE AGAINST THIS PRODUCT MAY DISTRACT YOU FROM THE MYRIAD WAYS YOUR GOVERNMENT FAILS TO PROTECT YOUR HEALTH.
— James K. Morrow
At her core, she was broken, and life was just one long attempt to distract people from noticing
— Patrick Ness
Cush: Pick you up at 7. Look hot. It'll distract him. Me: You're bad. Cush: Most girls tell me I'm good. Wanna find out?
— Jillian Dodd
Tim Curry is God. He will distract me.
— Nikki Rae
To distract myself from thoughts of my father, i decided to check out the dead body.
— Kelley Armstrong
don't want to hurt anybody, but I'm desperate to distract Dad and Becky, to stop the thing that's happening.
— Gilly Macmillan
What is the point of love? To distract us.
— Catherine Lacey
