Neglected Quotes

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury.

I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.

Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected.

Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.

That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language.

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that.

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

It is our grave mistake that for many years we neglected pro-Western groups in order to avoid any friction with the existing rulers.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

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.

In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.

Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.

My parents just neglected me, I wasn't abused or anything.

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself.

I would find myself backing away from all of the "isms," all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected.

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!

The president's budget proposals have neglected water infrastructure.

Adult stem cells have shown great potential and have effectively helped patients. Another alternative is cord-blood stem cells. These are a neglected resource that could be used to treat a diverse body of people.

Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.

Last night I neglected to mention something that bears repeating.

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.