Quotes About Neglect

Los hombres no significan nada para mí, en ninguna parte.

Oddly, neglect seemed to have resulted in an accidental release of the spirit.

In the evenings, when he knew visitors were expected, he would sit on the verandah and sew buttons that weren't missing onto his shirts, to create the impression that Mammachi neglected him. To some small degree he did succeed in farther corroding Ayemenem's view of working wives.

Everybody watched. Nobody stopped them.

Not many noticed the passing of the friendly old birds. There was so much else to look forward to.

I laughed and dismissed the idea.

He ignored the obvious on X rays.

Nursing homes have come a long way from the firetrap warehouses of neglect they used to be. But it seems we've succumbed to a belief that, once you lose your physical independence, a life of worth and freedom is simply not possible.

Wilson is still trying to work out how ordinary people can age without having to choose between neglect and institutionalization. It remains among the most uncomfortable questions we face.

But he did not hear us:

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

They don't even have a modern government. It's the worst government in any state. The laziest. It does nothing—outside of keeping law courts and a police department. It doesn't do anything for the people. It doesn't help anybody.

Oooh, there's a Ziploc baggie with a broken barrette, four pencils that are missing erasers, and some decomposing Easter chocolate (do not under any circumstances eat the choc—oops, too late).

Incidentally, I only have one cavity, and as much as my dentist asks me to, I just can't bring myself to floss.

The girl looked like walking death," Nancy recalled. "To leave somebody that sick in a bus terminal? I just didn't get it.

if one neglected pressure, a uniform spherically systematic symmetric star would contract to a single point of infinite density. Such a point is called a singularity.

As for the end of the universe…I say let it come as it will, in ice, fire, or darkness. What did the universe ever do for me that I should mind its welfare?

I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it.

People can be stunningly unobservant.

It would not do to tell other people, not just because they wouldn't believe but because they wouldn't care.

Certain empty houses that seemed to stare like the faces of people suffering from terrible mental illness. An empty barn on the outskirts of town, the hayloft door swinging open and closed on rusty hinges, first disclosing darkness, then hiding it, then disclosing it again.

It was as if the body disdained memory... or refused the responsibility of it.

There's a door in the wall. The door is covered with ivy. The ivy is dead. She waits.

He had accessorized his life with everything but paternal instinct.