Quotes About Neglect

Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless.

A farmer who neglects to sow ordinary seeds only loses the crop, whereas anyone who forgets to sow seeds of a crop that has already been harvested twelve months before risks disturbing the entire fabric of causality, not to mention acute embarrassment.

You have been getting all worked up about not looking out for me. Me, I've been lying here getting pissed about falling down on the job. I mean literally . Kerplunk.

Whoever neglects doing good is inviting addiction to evil.

I got used to certain things that normal kids don't get used to, like, when my mother went into the kitchen for things other than just cooking. I could hear the bottle open up and I could hear the chugs. Then the next morning, none of it was discussed. You grow up feeling crazy.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

Denim and doubt, cotton and caution, fell to the floor in a forgotten heap

We're all going to die. Alone and miserably. With lots of pain. That's the way life goes. People make promises and don't keep them. They say they care about you and forget you.

I just wished she'd stop forgetting me. Like she didn't want to remember me. Or maybe she wished she'd never had me.

It's almost as if we're invisible to them, even the ones with eyes intact, I murmur as I rise. The Winter Court tirelessly hunted us for a nightmarish eternity, yet here we are—and not one of them seems to care. Don't count on it.

They're going to die on your doorstep because you're too much of a prick to save them." "The world is not my responsibility." "Obviously.

Nothing escaped Karly's keen eye. She was intuitive and inquisitive, perceptive and observant. Girls born to neglectful mothers learn early that the world is fraught with dangers and they need to stay alert.

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What might we aspire to instead, if not more possessions? 'Wherever and whenever we are excessive in our lives it is the sign of an as yet unknown deprivation,' argues the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips. 'Our excesses are the best clue we have to our own poverty, and our best way of concealing it from ourselves.'72 When it comes to consumerism, perhaps the poverty that we aim to conceal lies in our neglected relationships

Wherever and whenever we are excessive in our lives it is the sign of an as yet unknown deprivation,' argues the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips. 'Our excesses are the best clue we have to our own poverty, and our best way of concealing it from ourselves.'72 When it comes to consumerism, perhaps the poverty that we aim to conceal lies in our neglected relationships with each other and with the living world.

By the eighth and ninth centuries, mistrusted by the Christians and neglected by the Germanic conquerors, the baths in the West had fallen into disrepair and were finally abandoned. Extraordinary achievements in engineering, architecture, public health and city planning that stretched from Italy to Britain to North Africa, they mostly lay in ruins for centuries.

You saw her a hundred times, but not once did you look at her.

He had an appreciation for things other people had forgotten.

When small wounds are left untreated, they can fest and become far more serious injuries." -Mr. Kipling

past the back of a bunch of stores and an old bar that looked like no one who went in there went in happy.

We scatter wisdom through our libraries that it may be ignored by our children

The problem with living in the middle is that it prevents you from making extraordinary time commitments to anything. In your effort to attend to all things, everything gets shortchanged and nothing gets its due.

Take a bunch of teenage boys from the whitest, safest suburb in America and plunk them down in a place where their friends are murdered and they are constantly attacked and threatened, "writes Leovy in Ghettoside. "Signal that no one cares, and fail to solve murders. Limit their options for escape. Then see what happens.

A Federal research project selected 1,600 children who had been abused or neglected and followed them for nearly twenty years.