Quotes About Neglect

No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted.

If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given the k nowledge to understand the world and the wisdom to change it, then the prospects for the future are bright. In contrast, a society which neglects its children, however well it may function in other respects, risks eventual disorganization and demise.

all semester, it was being taught by the goldfish he had forgotten to feed for the last ten years.

Factory windows are always broken Other windows are let alone. No one throws through the chapel-window The bitter, snarling, derisive stone.

And our conscience is getting old, its an old woman, and no one looks at it anymore.

What did you forget I existed?

In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either.

There's a thousand different ways a group of people can make someone in their midst feel unwanted.

That's what you get for ignoring the beauty of Tupperware.

A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

The best way to clean up a son's room is to close the door and pretend it's not part of the house.

There should be a stated day for commemorating the birthday of our Savior, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.

The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.

I minded my own business, and, unfortunately, so did everyone else.

Business neglected is business lost.

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

Everybody's business is nobody's business.

The trouble with all this, she said to him, is that it leaves so much out.

What makes demographics such a rewarding opportunity for the entrepreneur is precisely its neglect by decision makers, whether businessmen, public-service staffs, or governmental policymakers. They still cling to the assumption that demographics do not change – or do not change fast. Indeed, they reject even the plainest evidence of demographic changes.

No other area offers richer opportunities for successful innovation than the unexpected success. In no other area are innovative opportunities less risky and their pursuit less arduous. Yet the unexpected success is almost totally neglected; worse, managements tend actively to reject it.

But if you can take a bit of an advice from an old fool like me, save your best efforts for the living, because one day they'll be dead, too, and you'll end up feeling guilty for neglecting them while they were alive. That's the paradox. Damned if you do and double-damned if you don't.

For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want of a horse the rider was lost. For want of a rider the message was lost. For want of a message the battle was lost. For want of a battle the kingdom was lost. And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

the dead stones, the dust-stricken weeds dry and dying, perceived nothing, recollected nothing, about him or themselves.

Her heart, Bob Arctor reflected, was an empty kitchen: floor tile and water pipes and a drainboard with pale scrubbed surfaces, and one abandoned glass on the edge of the sink that nobody cared about.