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Quotes About Neglect

The trouble with the world was that nobody stopped or took any care.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Mr. Shiftlet said that the trouble with the world was that nobody cared, or stopped and took any trouble.
~ Flannery O'Connor
The fashion industry has done itself in by neglecting the 60- to 80-year-old market. They have the time and the economic resources. They want to go shopping.
~ Iris Apfel
I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.
~ Alan Sugar
Who cares about my opinions?
~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I'm married. Who cares about me?
~ Li Na
Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
~ Sophocles
'Game of Thrones' has never much concerned itself with shining a torch on the powerless. Their hunger and suffering in a land ravaged by war is of little concern to the story's most powerful characters, whose antics bring so much pain to the people.
~ Julia Gillard
The homeless often feel invisible, allowed to plummet through widening holes in the social safety net, then hidden in doorways from which people avert their eyes.
~ Dawn Foster
I, at times, was disappointed when my songs were neglected by executive producer Park Jin-young, but learned a lot in the journey finding out what would appeal to a wider audience.
~ Jamie Park
The month of Ramadan is the world's most widespread fast and yet its teachings are minimised, neglected and even betrayed (through literal application of rules that overlooks their ultimate objective).
~ Tariq Ramadan
When you stop playing for a while, people tend to forget about you.
~ Alexandra Kosteniuk
Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.
~ Adam Garcia
Events like Hurricane Katrina and the Minnesota bridge collapse suggest a national infrastructure that has suffered from lack of tending.
~ Nina Easton
Combing your hair after a long time is terrible.
~ Khalid
I'm terribly forgetful. I've lost laptops, cell-phones.
~ Ryan Tedder
Most of Seakirk's inhabitants were indifferent to the spectacle of corruption in high places and low, the gambling, the gang wars, the teen-age drinking. They were used to the sight of their roads crumbling, their ancient water mains bursting, their power plants breaking down, their decrepit old buildings falling apart, while the bosses built bigger homes, longer swimming pools and warmer stables. People were used to it.
~ Robert Sheckley
Numerous case histories have been documented about children previously neglected or abused by their parents, who, when placed with loving foster parents, have distorted their new surroundings and therefore reacted adversely.
~ Robert W. Firestone
again potentially epigenetics). For instance, abused and/or neglected children have an incredibly high risk for addiction (and other adult-life psychological issues) regardless of genetic influences. Furthermore, the more times a child is traumatized, the greater the likelihood of adverse reactions, such as addiction, later in life. One study found that survivors of chronic childhood trauma (four or
~ Robert Weiss
The simple truth is addicts of all types typically report multiple instances and forms of early-life neglect, abuse, shame, and family dysfunction.18 In one survey asking sex addicts about their childhoods,
~ Robert Weiss
No existo ni para el capitán ni para Elsa, ni para Barsut.
~ Roberto Arlt
Life left us all where we were meant to be or where it was convenient to leave us and then forgot us, which is as it should be.
~ Roberto Bolano
Silence glimmers in the empty hallways, on the radios no one listens to anymore.
~ Roberto Bolano
A woman who took care of everyone, except herself, and she begins to fade away in our arms. And even then we don't realize
~ Roberto Bolano