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Quotes About Negligence

motivated by his desire to keep her alive and his anger at the Gamemakers' negligence. An argument could be made for basic decency there.
~ Suzanne Collins
It didn't seem like much of a priority, jogging around a field with a gun with so many other things going on. And now I'm paying for my negligence.
~ Suzanne Collins
Metric-lowering drugs are particularly vicious because of a legal complexity. The doctor has the incentive to prescribe it because should the patient have a heart attack, he would be sued for negligence; but the error in the opposite direction is not penalized at all, as side effects do not appear at all as being caused by the medicine.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Instead of a reprimand for their previous negligence, the case seemed rather to require an eulogium on their praiseworthy caution after the mischief had happened; a grateful recognition of the promptitude of their zeal the moment that there was no longer any remedy.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
there's a point at which sufficient incompetence is malice.
~ Charles Stross
Mike Nichols used to say we were two flowers, no gardener. No one was minding the relationship.
~ Carrie Fisher
If a man does not use his member it grows smaller and smaller until one day he wants to piss and cannot find it.
~ George R.R. Martin
An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use.
~ Samuel Johnson
Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease.
~ Jim Rohn
I've decided the worst part of being lonely isn't being alone. It's being forgotten.
~ Tawni O'Dell
Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him.
~ Theophrastus
It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
You're losing your touch , Natasha. An unencrypted pay phone? Amateur hour.
~ Chris Samnee
All their teeth are yellow. No tooth-brush ever entered that convent. Brushing one's teeth is at the top of a ladder at whose bottom is the loss of one's soul.
~ Victor Hugo
Words were like pennies, fallen into corners and down the cracks, not worth the effort of collecting.
~ Kristin Hannah
What poets must seem to display, besides the objects imitated, is a beautiful negligence.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
Life is a series of lessons. Some are diligent in learning them, and they become pure, wise, and altogether happy. Others are negligent, and do not apply themselves. They remain impure, foolish, and unhappy.
~ James Allen
Only an idiot would bring an important letter out in the rain.
~ Theodora Goss
In other words, if you aren't focusing resources and time on your church website, you are thumbing your nose at the Great Commission. And that's not an overstatement. A church with a lousy website is committing the sin of Great Commission negligence.
~ Thom S. Rainer
Reply to Objection 4: Even if by a special privilege their predestination were revealed to some, it is not fitting that it should be revealed to everyone; because, if so, those who were not predestined would despair; and security would beget negligence in the predestined.
~ Thomas Aquinas
The Conservative government's neglect of social housing is all too apparent and should be a source of national shame.
~ Layla Moran
My parents just neglected me, I wasn't abused or anything.
~ Andy Dick
If a person is seriously injured as a result of someone else's negligence, then they are entitled to compensation.
~ Robert Rinder
If we're serious about our kids having a livable world, building fossil fuel infrastructure in 2018 is a sign of deep negligence, which is the kindest thing I can say about it.
~ Elizabeth May