Quotes About Neglect

I don't get no respect. When I played in the sandbox the cat kept covering me up.

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.

The big knight fell heavily to the ground, and lay there, as nearly dead as possible. His servants came running from the castle and took him in. He got better in the end, but nobody cared much about that.

Man has always mistreated what was important to him, for his love does not have a tender hand.

He invited anthropologists to study research into the European trials, and termed their recent neglect of this 'even more disconcerting' than the loss of interest by historians of Europe in African parallels

historians have largely ignored the opportunity for a new dialogue, and anthropologists have largely ceased to offer it.

People for the most part pass by the loveliest things in life without paying attention.

The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget.

The integration of daily life with spirituality is something I believe is neglected all too often. Spirituality is often treated as something separate from the rest of our lives, a way of thinking that stems in large part from the tendency to see the physical and spiritual as distinctly separate realms.

A Simple Story is one of those books which, for some reason or other, have failed to come down to us, as they deserved, along the current of time, but have drifted into a literary backwater where only the professional critic or the curious discoverer can find them out.

People who neglect their children in the grossest of ways more often than not will consider themselves the most loving of parents. It is clear that there may be a self-serving quality in this tendency to confuse love with the feelings of love; it is easy and not at all unpleasant to find evidence of love in one's feelings. It may be difficult and painful to search for evidence of love in one's actions.

Assim é que cada louco furioso era trancado em uma alcova na própria casa, e não curado, mas descurado até que a morte o vinha desfraldar do benefício da vida.

This poem serves to remind That food, it tends to spoil Leave it in your memory Not in the fridge, in foil.

But I love her. That's the funny part of it. I love them all, and they don't give a hoot about me. Maybe that's why I call when I'm not going to be home. Because I care. Nobody else does. You don't know how lucky you are to be loved.

For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; for want of a horse the rider was lost; for want of a rider the message was lost; for want of the message the battle was lost; for want of the battle the war was lost; for want of the war the kingdom was lost; and all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

As noted earlier, having a highly affectionate and responsive mother turns on different suites of genes, compared to being raised indifferently. Not surprisingly, neglect and trauma make social connection more difficult. These changes, too, are mediated by oxytocin, vasopressin, opioids, and dopamine.

The broken pink pillars, in the half-light, might have been waiting to fall down on him: the pool, covered with green scum, its steps torn away and hanging by one rotting clamp, to close over his head. The shattered evil-smelling chapel, overgrown with weeds, the crumbling walls, splashed with urine, on which scorpions lurked - wrecked entablature, sad archivolt, slippery stones covered with excreta - this place, where love had once brooded, seemed part of a nightmare.

It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.

A little neglect may breed great mischief.

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

When a husband stops paying attention to the garden, he's thinking of pulling up roots.

And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

I was like that wife of Kitchen God. Nobody worshipped her either. He got all the excuses. He got all the credit. She was forgotten.

Neglect is a surreptitious slayer of the heart. It has as its accomplice carelessness.