Quotes About Neglect

I haven't put an ounce of effort into my families. I never have.

It's almost impossible to get the outside world to take any notice of homelessness at all.

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

What fascinated me most was Churchill as a young child. He had a kind of Dickensian childhood. The neglect. And he was a terrible student. His whole life is a study in trying to overcome your feelings of inadequacy.

Canadians will usually give charity to those in need overseas but will ignore the people in their own backyards. It's infuriating.

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

Neglect of what is genuinely human is the major reason why so many people in American business right now feel more victimized than helped by the latest management techniques and companywide processes for improvement.

skin the off-white of a dirty motel sheet.

If obedience to fashion consists in imitation of an example, conscious neglect of fashion represents similar imitation, but under an inverse sign.

There is no more powerful form of rejection than taking someone for granted.

A very long time ago, Grandmother had wanted to tell about all the things they did, but no one had bothered to ask. And now she had lost the urge.

Without warning, a powerful masculine arm, one that could only belong to Northcote, snaked around her waist and pulled her near. "Every pardon, my dear. I fear I have been neglecting you. I hope you will forgive me." Leaning down, he brushed a kiss against her cheek; it burned like fire.

Given the state of her room, it would have been no surprise to find her chest of drawers utterly empty;

I hate the thought of someone never being missed,' said Ianto sadly. 'It's the ultimate humiliation, surely. So unimportant in life that no one even notices when you die.

If you refused to look, it was easy to pretend it wasn't happening.

Now Second Avenue is a dismal street, made from scraps and ends; part cobblestone, part asphalt, part cement; and its atmosphere of desertion is permanent.

Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.

Power deities, for all their strength, are very much like humans, They are subjects to periods of despair and are not free from the crippling consequences of emotions, For over two decades Tibetans were forbidden from holding any religious ceremonies or prayers. No prayer flags, incense or ceremonies were offered to the deities and demi-gods of the region. This neglect broke their hearts and they became bedraggled and weak.

Abandonment by betrayal is worse than mindless neglect. Betrayal is purposeful and self-serving.

It is a dangerous discovery, because they are going to disregard many vital things in their haste to catch up.

Education is a natural community function and occurs inevitably, since the young grow up on the old, towards their activities, and into (or against) their institutions; and the old foster, teach, train, exploit and abuse the young. Even neglect of the young, except physical neglect, has an educational effect -- not the worst possible.

There is also present in every human being, in everyone's biography-although sometimes harrowing cases of systematic neglect, present in the matter of absence, so if longing for that which never was there then too, deeply suspect, should have been.

was questioning one of the cardinal precepts of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.

the way a backyard might look from a high window in the deep of winter: a skeleton of the world, a tract of abandonment, objects dead and obsolete.