Quotes About Neglect

You can be a dynamic actor, but could never be a star if you never spend time with the media. That's something that I neglected to do.

In America, the old are neglected.

For too long, Ireland has neglected its children.

America, in all its institutions, whether it be the family or government, has forgotten and neglected its children.

We have neglected our aerospace program, and I am detecting a lot of bipartisan support to continue that mission.

I am a voice for innocent animals who are being neglected and dumped by the millions at shelters.

We have been concentrating on the banks, business and our bellies. We have neglected the spiritual and cultural. It was because Rome and Athens neglected these things that they fell.

I have no interest in managing my financial affairs.

No one cares about you when you're in jail.

It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It's like they think it won't ever change. Just like this house here. All it ever needed was a little attention, and it would never have ended up like this in the first place.

I've learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they're afraid

She was the spare room that never got tidied, the e-mail that never got answered, the loan that never got repaid, the symptom that never got described to a doctor.

She abandoned the garden, and the mums and asters that had trusted her to see them through to the first frost hung their waterlogged heads.

Of the two thousand original copies printed of The History of Love, some were bought and read, many were bought and not read, some were given as gifts, some sat fading in bookstore windows serving as landing docks for flies, some were marked up with pencil, and a good many were shredded to pulp along with other unread or unwanted books, their sentences parsed and minced in the machine's spinning blades.

It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here. In other words, I've got what I want, and out forget about what your concerns are. I'll just take what I want.

I've been crying for eight hours now, and he hasn't even noticed. I know, said Julie. When Alexandra was two I cried for eight months and she never noticed.

You'd think the man could have called her once, she thought, scowling at her boots. Sent a telegram, a damn smoke signal.

When there was a crack in something it only widened if you didn't tend to it. Let it go long enough, a crack became a break, and you had a hell of a mess on your hands.

When there was a crack in something it only widened if you didn't tend to it. Let it go long enough, a crack became a break, and you had a hell of a mess on your hands.

After lying uncollected for weeks the whole heap of broken bicycles, dented petrol cans, and the rest, was taken back to the same dump where, I suspect, it remains to this day.

I am trash and shit and crazy to you and this whole fucking world. You don't care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid ad bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.

You don't care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.

You're that tree falling in the forest that nobody gives a rat's ass about.

Nobody cared if he lived or died, and the feeling was fucking mutual.