Quotes About Neglected

I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.

An army must inevitably consist of the scum of the people and all those for which society has no use.

Nobody's listening to me, he thought, story of my life.

Every now and then, though, it feels like we're trying to rekindle our neglected friendships with an old ritual that's lost its sparkle.

It is so often the small things overlooked which leave our schemes in ruins.

The president's budget proposals have neglected water infrastructure.

I've always been interested in the idea of people who fell through the cracks.

The Lord did not bless us with any children of our own, so we gathered up little waifs whom we thought would be neglected and would not be cared for unless we brought them into our family.

I'm always drawn to the underdogs, to the people whose stories don't get told.

It is for sure a big part of the coach's job to make sure the tennis does not get neglected.

If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled.

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

It benefited a child, she thought, to be forgotten once in a while. Lost in the shuffle (she would have said), benignly neglected.

When they mention great little things in life, they usually forget flossing.

Yet another technique of the neglected positivist is to impose a new meaning on a word that exists but, through the convolutions of grammar, doesn't technically mean what you are deciding it means. The neglected positive of incriminate is criminate, which actually, technically means the same thing as incriminate—because the in- isn't really making a negative in this case—but it is much more amusing if you use it to mean the opposite.

What?" Frankie didn't think it was a word. She thought it was—she thought it was what she'd later call a "neglected positive.

The one they always forget is Brad Dexter.

Special teams get the shaft when most people talk football. Unless a kicker's bombing a game-winner or a return man is going the distance, that important third of the game is all but forgotten.

Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.

Toward the end of the meal, the talk turns to an important and neglected subject: public opinion. Rabin admits that Israel has not been effective in its publicity. I say that Arab propaganda has become extremely effective and that the Arabs have succeeded in winning worldwide public support. Yes, they have a talent for that sort of thing, Mr. Rabin says; he implies that this is not one of Israel's major problems. I disagree. The

your second-hand bicycles in the alleyways

I was backing into the picture I wanted to see by noticing what wasn't in it. It was like trying to understand a photography by studying the negative. I found myself focusing not on what people remembered, focused on, and said, but on what they forgot, disregarded, and did not say. I was backing into the deep story, as I am calling it, and noticing what, in human consciousness, it crowded out.

I personally tend to be drawn to stories that aren't paid much attention to, or stories that aren't on people's radar.

It is time to stand strong for the American people. It is time to champion the interests of those constantly neglected on the question of immigration: the men and women and children we represent - the citizens of this country to whom we owe our ultimate allegiance.