Quotes About Neglect

Some legislators only wish to vengeance against a particular enemy. Others only look out for themselves. They devote very little time on the consideration of any public issue. They think that no harm will come from their neglect. They act as if it is always the business of somebody else to look after this or that. When this selfish notion is entertained by all, the commonwealth slowly begins to decay.

You can't imagine the utter bottomlessness of my disinterest in your opinion.

Laziness always wins.

Why are the ones who need the most shelter always the ones left out in the rain?

The officials failed to see the danger. The photo opportunity with Diana sitting sadly alone outside the world's most famous monument to love was laden with ironic potential. But only Diana knew that she was about to publish a tale of cruelty and neglect. Now the woman who had dreamed of marrying a Prince was happy for the world to see that the fairytale had no happy ending. Judy

This is trash state U.S.A.

The Irish killed themselves with liquor, with accidents prompted by drink, with neglect, with disease, with violence, but would never end their lives by their own hands, for that would ensure that misery followed them to eternity.

There is no question of any alliance with the Congress party. The Congress have always neglected the people of Odisha.

In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.

As a black person in this country, I am always frustrated by the lack of attention my people's issues get. But at least the news and politicians are talking about not talking about our issues. Native issues are basically ignored.

Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.

Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.

My parents had no interest in spending a lot of time with me. They were busy doing what they were doing, but they were not obnoxious. They were fabulous.

When a child has seven baby-sitters, it will lose an eye.

No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew uglier and dirtier they moved faster and faster, and at last a very strange thing began to happen. Because nobody cared, the city slowly began to disappear. Day by day the buildings grew fainter and fainter, and the streets faded away, until at last it was entirely invisible. There was nothing to see at all.

It is no more possible to take pride in these neglected dwellings, in which dirt, dust and mud have blended into their surroundings, than it is to rejoice in the beautiful old wooden houses that as a child I watched burn down one by one.

It is the ship at the wharf, not the ship at sea, that rots fastest;—the

He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

Sometimes you have a little problem and you dont fix it and then all of a sudden it aint a little problem anymore.

No prince had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast growing spurge.

I had spoken to the universe, and the universe hadn't given a damn.

It occurred to Liz one day, as she waited on hold for an estimate from a yard service, that her parents' home was like an extremely obese person who could no longer see, touch, or maintain jurisdiction over all of his body; there was simply too much of it, and he—they—had grown weary and inflexible. During

reason to do anything other than bypass and ignore. And