Quotes About Neglect

Two empty hours were a sinus in which infections bred.

When a school board hires just one woman to retrieve 400 missing children from the streets of the North Bronx, we may reasonably conclude that it does not particularly desire to find them. If 100 of these children startled us by showing up at school, moreover, there would be no room for them in P.S. 94. The building couldn't hold them.

all the reasons people with serious mental illness were ignored: they don't contribute to society, they don't make money, they're difficult, they're disenfranchised—who's going to pay attention to them? Until something tragic happens; then it's a nightmare. This was the nightmare.

She let the dust accumulate on her shoulders.

kitapl?k sahibi tüm insanlar gibi aurelianus da sahip olduÄŸu bütün kitaplar? hakk?n? vererek okumam?? olmakla suçlard? kendini.bu tart??ma ona kitapl???n?n raflar?nda ihmal edildikleri için ay?plar gibi duran birçok kitab? gözden geçirme f?rsat? verdi.(Çev.:Tomris Uyar)

Ned felt vaguely insulted. And unimportant. It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.

James gave the huffle of a snail in danger. And nobody heard him at all.

I avoid writing until I can't avoid it anymore. Until writing comes knocking at my door like a friend I've neglected.

They never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity

first casualties of every are the weak people like women, children and elderly and the last people who speak about are the UN, EU and USA

If you complain of neglect of Education in sons, what shall I say with regard to daughters, who every day experience the want of it?

His own fight for existence kills his sensibility for the misery of those who have been left behind.

The legal challenge was a lot like the challenge of demonstrating the impact of racism or poverty or substandard housing: How could you untangle the structural injustices from the self-inflicted damage? How could you separate neglect from malice, the intended from the unintended harms?

George II proved to be no more popular than his father, either during his lifetime or after it. He cared for nobody, and nobody cared for him,

If a pane of glass, or the door of a cupboard in the scullery, requires mending, it cannot now be done without the following process: a requisition is prepared and signed by the chief cook, it is then counter-signed by the clerk of the kitchen, then it is taken to the lord chamberlain's office, where it is authorized, and then laid before the clerk of the works, under the office of woods and forests; and consequently, many a window and cupboard have remained broken for months.

The saddest thing is when a guy is paying so much attention to the world and everything going by that he can't take the time for his own mother.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

I had a head injury when I was living in England; I was in the hospital for three days, and they didn't even ask for my name. I spent three days in there. And then, when I was done, I just got up and left. I wasn't a British citizen; I was there on a work permit.

When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

The smallest evil if neglected, will reach the greatest proportions.

Over time events trickle out of the minds of forgetful, thoughtless people, and so, since they retain and conserve nothing, the empty space within them, that should be filled with good things, is filled instead with hopes, so that they neglect the present and look to the future, despite the fact that fortune may yet foil the future, whereas the present cannot be taken away.

And what could my father possibly want with another child, when he hardly bothered to talk to the one he already had?

Dunia luar tak ada yang tahu tentang mereka, tak ada yang memperhatikan nasib mereka,

Danger past, God forgotten.