Neglect Quotes

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.

The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society.

We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.

Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Lost are many great commissions by such neglect.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help tackle the actual grievances in Palestine, Kashmir, and in central and southern Iraq, and to help the region out of its economic backwardness.

The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.

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

I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing.

Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.

It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.

The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.