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Quotes About Neglect

Whatever moments he could spare from self-adornment were devoted to the neglect of his duties, and he was so little good as an officer that Longstreet had to assign staffers to Pickett to explain things "very fully; indeed sometimes stay with him to make sure he did not get astray.
~ Allen C. Guelzo
Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected.
~ Allen West
But humankind doesn't give a damn ! The proof of it is that in twenty-four years this novel has been collecting dust in libraries and no one, you hear me, no one has ever even talked to me about it. And that's perfectly normal because, as I told you, no one has read it.
~ Amelie Nothomb
When you socially neglect a people, when you economically abandon a people, when you transfer wealth from them to the well-to-do, what are a people going to do? They're going to respond with very sad forms of despair, and that's true for everybody - I don't care what color you are.
~ Cornel West
Something is very wrong when our federal and state governments have a high tolerance for the unrestricted distribution of weapons of mass destruction, and it would be wrong to let this deadly form of neglect continue to facilitate bloodshed across America.
~ Bernice King
I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
~ Harriet Tubman
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
~ Luther Burbank
At one time, no one would touch me with a 10-foot pole.
~ Anita Bryant
When it comes to certain portions of our history, we've just forgotten it all.
~ Joe Morton
I actively avoided responsibility for as long as I possibly could.
~ David Walton
Africa is the continent that the rest of the world prefers not to think about.
~ Richard Corliss
I don't give a crap about clowns.
~ Blake Shelton
With my own home, I feel like I'm the mechanic who drives a crappy car. I never have time to work on my own home.
~ Jonathan Scott
I don't give a whole lot of thought or credence to questions about what comes on next, what goes on next.
~ Joe Kennedy III
I'm collateral damage. I'm road kill. And in 72 hours, nobody is going to remember who I am nor are they going to care.
~ Eric Massa
I don't give a damn about trolls.
~ Adnan Sami
There's two systems of health care: the one for the rich that's really good, then there's the one for the inner city, where they leave ladies in the emergency room unattended for 24 hours until they drop dead.
~ Fat Joe
I knew where people were sleeping in the hallways, you know, instead of doing their job. I knew what systems weren't working.
~ Judy Sheindlin
No matter how you hire, ensuring the systems are in place to manage the process will be critical in allowing you to find the right people to carry the standards you set. Don't neglect that duty!
~ Michael Gerber
Blake & Murphy didn't seem to appreciate who I was and what I was doing for them. After losing the NXT Tag Team Championship, they went on a long losing streak. They needed me yet just used me as an accessory.
~ Alexa Bliss
When I look back, I didn't take care of myself at all.
~ Joe Cocker
I forget to take care of Angie being so busy taking care of everyone else.
~ Angie Stone
It's hard for me to take care of myself, let's put it that way. I am my last priority.
~ Rachel Zoe
Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.
~ Norman Borlaug