Benign Neglect Quotes

#1. When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

Ariel Gore

#2. When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is both in dollars and in human misery, the demand for change will be made-not for the sake of minority people, but for the sake of all of us.

John Howard Griffin

#3. Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process.

Warren Buffett

#4. Instead, ourselves the beneficiaries of this kind of benign neglect, we now measure success as the extent to which we manage to keep our children monitored, tethered, tied to us.

Joan Didion

#5. The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#6. In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

Althea Gibson

#7. Because the biggest mistake of his life - his infidelity - had given me the best part of mine.

Christina Lauren

#8. My comedy comes from pain. I can't stand to see someone hurting.

Bernie Mac

#9. Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.

John Stuart Mill

#10. I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and decided I was just going to give comedy a try.

Bob Newhart

#11. I don't care for horror and fantasy films. I never go to see them in the theater. I know I've played in many of them, but I didn't do them because of their genre - I did them just because I loved their scripts.

Peter Weller

#12. On current form, both teams will probably lose.

Aidy Boothroyd

#13. This story of benign judicial neglect of Nazis and collaborators forms a striking contrast with the systematic repression of the Greek Left, which lasted for over two decades.

Mark Mazower

#14. It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

Anatoly Chubais

#15. I'd rather do one day on a really cool movie than six months on something crap.

Domhnall Gleeson

#16. My team name is the Duchess of Douchecockery.Yep, that's mine.

Katie Aselton

#17. The muse, the beloved, and duende are three ways of thinking of what is the source of poetry, and all three seem to me different names or different ways to think about something that is not entirely reasonable, not entirely subject to the will, not entirely rational.

Edward Hirsch

#18. I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.

Jeannette Walls