Quotes About Neglect

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies ... and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.

There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.

If you have a car, you tune it up; you replace the parts. You try to keep it in good shape. This country has tires that are shot, a bunch of engine problems, and rather than saying, 'Okay, let's maybe put some new parts in here,' we just keep putting gas in and driving forward.

The E.U. initially decided to end the isolation of Turkish Cyprus, to balance the accession of Cyprus. But the E.U. has not carried through on its promise.

America turns its back on the mentally ill. It likes to think it doesn't, but it does.

I was a guy who abandoned a TV show. I didn't care about people.

People forget what they want to forget.

My childhood was bad. No father. Mother was greedy and brought me up awful - never made me breakfast once. I don't want to get started. One story is worse than another.

While most people in TV, radio, and the press have treated me wonderfully, some of the most important people want to pretend I don't exist.

Nobody knows the trouble you've seen - and nobody wants to.

Nobody really wants us. So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt.

Kakve koristi od životnih lekcija ako ih zanemarujemo?

She stopped. It was as if her mind tripped on something. Her eye was caught by a dish-towel in the middle of the kitchen table. Slowly she moved toward the table. One half of it was wiped clean, the other half messy. Her eyes made a slow, almost unwilling turn to the bucket of sugar and the half empty bag beside it. Things begun—and not finished.

I will pretend I do not have those feelings and eventually they will die from neglect.

It had been years since anybody had wanted to listen again. The world had moved on. They had not.

Sometimes we get this great gift, man, and we just take it for granted. We only figure it out, how much we lost, when it's gone.

inability to decipher words came from neglect, but Eve knew better.

Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars, the broken planet. Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people who came after them.

And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months she had put us through. I had taken a step back from my mother, put up a wall to protect myself from needing her, and nothing was ever the same between us again.

We women know how to take care of everybody so well. But the one person we have written out of the equation is us.

I would say that the U.S. has overlooked Latin America. Their priorities have always been somewhere else. And that is a problem and that is a mistake.