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Quotes About Neglect

if your body is neglected, exhausted, or abused, it becomes energetically toxic. Your spirit actually leaves via what's known as the "silver cord" (a shimmering cord of light extending from your solar plexus to your auric field), and your psychic engines shut down.
~ Sonia Choquette
He's used to the freedom of neglect; he likes it.
~ Sonya Hartnett
But you're worried I'll get in trouble?" I try not to show how much this pleases me. I've managed to ignore him for days now and here I sit. Lapping up his attention like a neglected puppy. My voice takes on an edge. "Why do you care? I've ignored you for days." His smile fades. He looks serious, mockingly so. "Yeah. You got to stop that.
~ Sophie Jordan
To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
~ SPIRO AGNEW
To some extent, if you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.
~ Spiro T. Agnew
the ruin insufficiently ruined
~ Stefan Zweig
No one had seen anything of Urk since he had gone galloping out into the night carrying Meriam, the hired girl. It was generally assumed that he had drowned her and then himself. Who cared, anyway?
~ Stella Gibbons
Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
~ Tacitus
Countless mistakes in marriage, parenting, ministry, and other relationships are failures to balance grace and truth. Sometimes we neglect both. Often we choose one over the other.
~ Randy Alcorn
They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and don't permit others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth.
~ John Milton
Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.
~ Tryon Edwards
It's like they've forgotten everything important, isn't it? I mean, forgotten things like cats and dancing exist.
~ Katherine Rundell
People loved to think they were getting a deal. Four times out of five they would look right past what they didn't want to see.
~ Donna Tartt
Never having had either positive cruelty or kindness shown to her by her parents, but only an indifference, she was not conscious of what it was that she missed – affection.
~ Mervyn Peake
Never cared for what they say Never cared for games they play Never cared for what they do Never cared for what they know
~ Metallica
Every golden age is as much a matter of disregard as of felicity.
~ Michael Chabon
It really is a shame that through our sad neglect of wonders, hopefulness, and trust we allowed so much clutter and debris to build up in the space that once connected us to Diamond Green.
~ Michael Chabon
The alley was like most any other alley in a city where the infrastructure was crumbling, in a state where the infrastructure was crumbling. It was a patchwork of asphalt spot repairs and loose gravel over a crumbling base of decades-old concrete.
~ Michael Connelly
The alley was like most any other alley in a city where the infrastructure was crumbling, in a state where the infrastructure was crumbling.
~ Michael Connelly
In death, she would be treated the way she had been in life, left alone and forgotten.
~ Michael Connelly
Peter glances out at the falling snow. Oh, little man. You have brought down your house not through passion but by neglect. You who dared to think of yourself as dangerous. You are guilty not of the epic transgressions but the tiny crimes. You have failed in the most base and human of ways - you have not imagined the lives of others.
~ Michael Cunningham
The book worm, the foreign-looking one with the dark, close set eyes an the Roman nose, who had never been sought after or cherished; who had always been left alone, to read.
~ Michael Cunningham
When you avoid talking about one conspicuous thing in a family, soon you stop talking about any conspicuous things in the family. It's like a form of rot.
~ Michael Kupperman
It was like a broken slot machine in the casino that pays off every time. It would keep paying off until someone said something about it; but no one who played the slot machine had any interest in pointing out that it was broken.
~ Michael Lewis