Quotes About Neglect

no courage in the world can hold out in the face of neglect, solitude and persecution.

You can't burgulate a forgotten, empty house," he said, horrified at my stupidity.

It was fortunate that the room was empty, except for half a score or so of servants. These were busy enough laying out the six couple of roast fowl, the twenty pheasants, the baron of beef, the venison pies, gooseberry pies, and plum pudding, and they had no time or inclination to pay the least attention to their master's private conversation with his wife.

That's what he got for neglecting his work to go on wild-goose chases to impress a girl

I have a house full of dead succulents but I was very attentive.

It's very interesting what you don't care about.

If I don't believe it, I don't care.

to the Moon. At that point, American Moon visits abruptly ceased for reasons that were never adequately explained. The remaining three Apollo craft which were already built at enormous expense, were left to rot.

And this the burthen of his songForever used to be,"I care for nobody, not I,If no one cares for me."

But in essence they had both remained in the era of the Wars of Succession, she with artillery in her head, he with genealogical trees; she who dreamed for us children a rank in an army, it didn't matter which, he who saw us instead married to some grand duchess elector of the empire . . . Despite all this, they were excellent parents, but so distracted that the two of us were left to grow up almost on our own.

My father always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect.

I remember that a wise friend of mine did usually say, "That which is everybody's business is nobody's business."

You may spoil the Gospel by interposition. You have only push something between Christ and the eye of the soul, to draw away the sinner's attention from the Saviour, and the mischief is done. Interpose anything between man and Christ, and man will neglect Christ for the thing interposed! Do this, either directly or indirectly, and your religion ceases to be Evangelical.

Haggai preached to a people with whom we might secretly sympathize: they were so preoccupied with paneling their own homes that they forgot that the house of the Lord was in ruins. All of which is to say, distraction comes easily, in many forms, and it happens to the nicest people.

We shall never have vital contact with Jesus if we attend to His person and neglect the message; for it is the message which makes Him ours.

The distant father. This is the father who was physically in the home but was disengaged. He may have been depressed. Or maybe he never learned to show emotion because of painful experiences in his own life such as post-traumatic stress disorder or physical abuse. This type of dad finds it very difficult to show affection to a child or to say, "I love you." So the child, who is starved for healthy affection, will assume that he or she is not loved.

To neglect receiving kindness and help is to isolate oneself, to rob others of opportunity, and to deprive oneself of sustenance. Our example in this is the ultimate Servant Jesus, who came to serve but graciously accepted the service of others—people like His hosts Mary and Martha, the use of the colt He rode into Jerusalem, and others.

The Library of Congress reports that the Army Office of the Surgeon General for Medical Statistics "does not have figures on single or multiple amputees." Either the government doesn't think them important, or, in the words of a researcher for one of the national television networks, "the military itself, while sure of how many tons of bombs it has dropped, is unsure of how many legs and arms its men have lost.

They're so busy playing, they've taken their eyes off the board

Dead people rot on the streets of New Orleans for a week and a half so the feds can sign a private contract.

This story shows how critical it is to get treated for sleep problems. But most people suffering from lack of sleep neglect to seek help. They don't view it as a medical problem and choose to simply live with it. That could be a life-threatening mistake.

In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected the ballot is a cunning swindle benefiting only the united barons of industry, trade, and property.

A reliable way to treat hemispatial neglect is through the use of prismatic glasses that gradually shift the patient's attention toward the side that is neglected.

Following a stroke, nearly one-third of people experience hemispatial neglect, also known as unilateral neglect. This causes the stroke survivor to ignore one side of their body or visual field and to be unaware that they have a deficit. As you can imagine, it is a leading cause of falls and other injuries. A reliable way to treat hemispatial neglect is through the use of prismatic glasses that gradually shift the patient's attention toward the side that is neglected.