Quotes About Neglect

Healthcare authorities neglect the role of psychological factors in pandemic­ related infection even though these factors are important for many reasons.

Unintentional spreading of infection due to poor hygiene (e.g., neglecting to cover coughs) and lack of vaccination is a more likely way in which influenza will be disseminated during the next pandemic.

Varian, you are wasting time. There are things you must attend to. Those delightful little playthings of yours are here. Downstairs. They're in a terrible state. I really think you ought to have a word with them.

It's Owen we have to concern ourselves with, not Barbara. She is nothing.

Light was provided by baskets of burning bones. Skulls grinned from niches in the wall, presiding over offerings of braided, hairy plant-roots, which suggested the temple was still in use for all its appearance of neglect. On the far side of the chamber, bowls of lighted oil on the floor illuminated a ragged curtain, which was drawn across an alcove. Ays experienced a deep feeling of recognition. He knew that he was in the home of a god, and that he had been here before.

That's the trouble with care in the community – nobody does.

One couple described the effects as being, "dated hard, married quick, and then ignored." They got into church alright, but the church never got into them; they were let in easily enough, but they never felt they were counted on.

I haven't used my brain for so long, the poor thing is huddled in a corner, waiting to be fed.

But apart from the military measures, security measures, of course, Afghanistan needs great help for building up its social life, its economic life. It has become a very poor country, neglected for many years.

Today, the growing economic and social pressures in our country are putting millions of women, children and families at increased risk of abuse and neglect, especially when families are denied basic support services and economic opportunity.

It is not a fragrant world.

Software is like gardening - one day I'll go behind the shed and clean up. But if nobody ever goes there, does it matter a lot?

We are living in a country that has taken the short view on everything. We have sold our future.

The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

What? No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet!

There is no reason to be in touch with you I m reduced to sub existence

There are no dots in Tee'sOr cross in eye'sThere is no connect in child neglect

I don't know why you care. He doesn't even know you're there

We put our lives on hold for people who so easily forget about us.

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up.

But then, I knew so little about my mother over the last decade of her life. I had been too wrapped up in my own drama.

All parents damage their children. This was their life together. Neglect. Violence. Silence. And now, someplace beyond death, Eddie slumped against a stainless steel wall and dropped into a snowbank, stung again by the denial of a man whose love, almost inexplicably, he still coveted, a man ignoring him, even in heaven. His father. The damage done.

The hands on Eddie's childhood glass then were hard and calloused and red with anger, and he went through his younger years whacked, lashed, and beaten. This was the second damage done, the one after neglect. The damage of violence. It got so that Eddie could tell by the thump of the footsteps coming down the hall how hard he was going to get it.