Quotes About Neglect

The Lord has set no limits on what He is willing to teach us and give us. We are the only ones who set limits--through our neglect our disobedience or ignorance. We are in large measure the ones who determine what we will learn and experience in mortality, and what we will receive eternally.

I mean, yeah, my dad would sometimes go on a drinking binge and be gone for a week, but those white dads can completely disappear without ever leaving the living room.

But people forget.

How many books do you have here?" Corliss asked. "Two million, one hundred thousand, and eleven," the librarian said proudly, but Corliss was frightened. What happens to the world when that many books go unread? And what happens to the unread authors of those unread books?

I think infatuation is like a garden. If tended and cared for, it grows into love. If neglected or abused it dies. The only way to have eternal love is to never let your heart forget what it's like to live without it. -Vane

you're right Acheron. I am a selfish bastard. I had to be, because no one else gave a single shit about me except me

I'm not a child. (Zarek) No, you're not a child. You never were. Children are supposed to be protected and cared for. You had no one to hold you when you cried. No one ever soothed you. They never told you stories or made you laugh when you were sad. (Astrid)

How does someone know the difference between that and infatuation? He sat up between her legs, then pulled her into his lap to cuddle. I don't think there is a difference. I think infatuation is like a garden. If tended and cared for, it grows into love. If neglected or abused it dies. The only way to have eternal love is to never let your heart forget what it's like to live without it.

There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.

All my life I've always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.

In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we have travelled over, but frequently neglect to gather up experiences as we go.

No span of steel will tolerate...neglect. But if service by generations who use it and spared manmade hazards, such as war, it should have life without end.

Life was going on, and no one but a handful of people cared if I lived or died.

Protection of human life can be costly; but so is the neglect of that protection.

It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so is not to praise but to murder it, for the next step after that tribute will be neglect of the masterpiece.

Doesn't matter which is which," he said cheerfully. "They're both idiots.

Your dislike for the project will be duly noted, and ignored.

the house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah...

Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife?

the heart aches through nights—the broken places of neglect

you are a ring tone on the phone I didn't answer

But seeing and doing nothing isn't the worst thing," Hera had said. "The worst thing is to see and not to care.

Er setzte sich auf ein fadenscheiniges Sofa.

Fortunately...or unfortunately...through years of neglect I'm actually as skinny as an anorexic broomstick.