Quotes About Neglect

Well, let me tell you, your recollection of every last detail has nothing to do with memory. It's called holding a goddamn grudge. ... That's what I remember the most, not addresses but pain - that old lump-in-the-throat conviction that the world had fingered me for abuse and neglect. Is that the same as a grudge?

What I cannot love, I overlook.

But nothing was worse than nothing, and that was the sum total of indifference.

Pragmatic Programmers won't sit idly by and watch their projects fall apart through neglect.

There are other factors that can contribute to software rot, and we'll touch on some of them elsewhere, but neglect accelerates the rot faster than any other factor.

Her mother, who, since the death of the King, her father, had nothing in the world she cared for so much as this little Princess, was so terribly afraid of losing her that she quite spoiled her, and never tried to correct any of her faults. The consequence was that this little person, who was as pretty as possible, and was one day to wear a crown, grew up so proud and so much in love with her own beauty that she despised everyone else in the world.

The first truth is that Christ actually meant prayer to be the great power by which His church should do its work, and that the neglect of prayer is the great reason the church has not greater power over the masses in Christian and in heathen countries.

God has priority over your time, no matter what else must be neglected. Only then will you be able to submit yourself fully to the will of God. If, from day to day, you persevere with dedication, time will no longer be a question.

Christ meant prayer to be the great power by which His church should do its work, and the neglect of prayer is the reason the church lacks greater power.

Robert has never been kind to his body; he's worn it like an old leather coat tossed in oceans and left crumpled in corners.

The danger is that being pushed towards early specialisation can leave children believing that they have only one way to succeed...Prodigies who don't make it will have worked insanely hard on something that can longer sustain them, after having neglected skills needed to pursue any other kind of life.

He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't.

Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.

Its natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily, most gracefully.

Nobody bothered with him. His failures were private and invisible

It was amazing, really, the effort that went into the absence of things.

It's natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily, most gracefully. So here's me asking you to please not make that mistake.

I was abandoned when it was right in everybody's face, so I still believe that nobody cares.

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

You must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; --from fear of its being abused.

Why are we so careless that we let our own histories die without even noticing?

Although, pretending not to notice is almost worse than noticing.

Ellis had slept through the entire thing. That, or he was dead, but I saw no reason to check. If he was dead, he'd still be dead in the morning.

But there's still this combination of governmental ineptitude, shortsightedness, stinginess, corruption, and neglect that affected the Continentals before, during, and after Valley Forge that twenty-first-century Americans are not entirely unfamiliar with. While