Quotes About Neglect

En mi experiencia, estas guerras en paises del tercer mundo no se ganan con balas sino con enfermedades, y no hablo de armas biológicas sino de desidia, de brutalidad, de olvido y de marginalidad" ? Florencia Bonelli, Caballo de Fuego: Congo

En mi experiencia, estas guerras en pises del tercer mundo no se ganan con balas sino con enfermedades, y no hablo de armas biológicas sino de desidia, de brutalidad, de olvido y de marginalidad

Most men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed off wings where he never ventures.

He found her under my care," she protested. "I have done everything for her. But for me she should have starved in the streets." Here the Indian gentleman lost his temper. "As to starving in the streets," he said, "she might have starved more comfortably there than in your attic.

So when she was a sickly, fretful, ugly little baby she was kept out of the way, and when she became a sickly, fretful, toddling thing she was kept out of the way also.

worst village in that part of the country. Mr. Mordaunt had told her a great many of his difficulties and discouragements, and she had found out a great deal by herself. The agents who had managed the property had always been chosen to please the Earl, and had cared nothing for the degradation and wretchedness of the poor tenants. Many things, therefore, had been neglected which should have been

I've stolen a garden. It isn't mine, it isn't anybody's. Nobody wants it, nobody cares for it, nobody ever goes into it. Perhaps everything is dead in it already, I don't know. I don't care, I don't care. Nobody has any right to take it from me when I care about it and they don't. They're letting it die, all shut in by itsellf!

She was so tightly wrapped in herself, her own misery and dark thoughts, that she was blind to everything else. Especially him.

Tom y Daisy eran criaturas desconsideradas: hacían añicos las cosas y personas y luego volvían a sus dinero o a su enorme desconsideración, o a lo que fuese que los mantenía unidos, y dejaban que otros se encargaran de limpiar lo que ellos ensuciaban.

Our civilization could well die of indifference within it before succumbing to external attack.

It's not God who doesn't care, it's us

Huge live oaks, hung with Spanish moss, partly hid a stately white Southern mansion in need of paint. Wisteria blossoms hung bell-like from vines climbing the walls. The Hardys mounted the steps of the still stately portico, supported by high, once-white round columns. Frank knocked repeatedly on the door. There was no response. As they circled the neglected structure, they rapped on windows, called out, pounded on side and back doors, with no results.

He] used to be so insignificant that one literally felt alone in his presence.

Hän ahmaisee tähteet omalta ruokapöydältään. Sen vuoksi hän on hetken ajan muita kylläisempi, mutta samalla hän myös unohtaa kuinka pöydän ääressä syödään, ja sen vuoksi tähteitä ei enää kuulukaan.

it was her fault he hadn't eaten anything that evening

I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt.

When you start drinking, everything goes out of the window. You don't care about anything. You don't even care about yourself.

Winning, you can overlook so many things.

My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably neglected. Despite that neglect, the literary approach builds at every turn on what biblical scholars have done to recover the original, intended meaning of the biblical text.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

What makes autism different is the history of neglect into the disorder. It's remained such a mystery that science has been very slow to address it.

Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.

While pro-lifers and social conservatives form one of the most important blocks of support for the Republican Party, they are traditionally taken for granted. At conventions, their issues are downplayed, if not ignored.

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.