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Quotes About Neglect

Have we been neglecting our prayers this week? Did one of us fart in a temple or something?
~ Scott Lynch
They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst.
~ Scottish Proverb
Our environment is too important to neglect and it's time for the federal government to focus on real solutions and live up to their promises.
~ Barack Obama
If you neglect your blogs they don't take up much time.
~ Debra Hamel
Did you bring me a rat?" "He has no time for rats, George." "No time for rats? That's just sad.
~ Rick Riordan
There were times that the kids were upset I wasn't there, those three times a year they needed me. The rest of the time, I'm sure that I wasn't in their thoughts.
~ Rita Gelman
Clothing left on the bed unfolded. Books stained with coffee spots. Tabs not paid until the last possible second. Boys kissed and then forgotten in a week's time.
~ Libba Bray
Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat or old allegiance.
~ Louis Kronenberger
I didn't spend much time with my parents when I was growing up.
~ Michael Reagan
so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people.
~ Mark Twain
Klasyka, to to, co wszyscy chcieliby przeczyta? i czego nikt nie czyta.
~ Mark Twain
Of course during all this, the children are once again abandoned, left to look after each other, with no one around to help translate the horror of the afternoon.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
The thrill of being ignored!
~ Markus Zusak
she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.
~ Markus Zusak
The Gingerbread House sat sullenly in the downpour.
~ Marlys Millhiser
The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.
~ Marshall McLuhan
There needs to be an error code that means "I received your request but decided to ignore you.
~ Martha Wells
I didn't care what humans were doing to each other as long as I didn't have to a) stop it or b) clean up after it.
~ Martha Wells
On dope he sometimes thought that all the televisions on Calchalk Street were softly cackling about Richard Tull: news flashes about his most recent failures, panel discussions about his obscurity, his neglect.
~ Martin Amis
Rust is the failure of the work of man. The project, the venture, the experiment: failed, given up on, and not cleaned up after.
~ Martin Amis
Yet the average white person also has a responsibility. He has to resist the impulse to seize upon the rioter as the exclusive villain. He has to rise up with indignation against his own municipal, state and national governments to demand that the necessary reforms be instituted which alone will protect him. If he reserves his resentment only for the Negro, he will be the victim by allowing those who have the greatest culpability to evade responsibility.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Doctor Where's your mammy now? Johnny At home she is. (Pause.) Lying at the foot of me stairs. Doctor What's she doing lying at the foot of your stairs? Johnny Nothing. Just lying. Ah she seems happy enough. She has a pint with her. Doctor How did she get lying at the foot of your stairs? Johnny Be falling down them! How d'ya usually get lying at the foot of a fella's stairs? Doctor And you just left her there? Johnny Is it my job to go picking her up? Doctor It is!
~ Martin McDonagh
she'd neglected to make choices for her inner self as well. She'd given away too much.
~ Mary Alice Monroe
what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance. In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backwards. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practise it much. In the every-day affairs of life it is more useful to reason forwards, and so the other comes to be neglected. There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle