Neglecting Responsibility Quotes

#1. A man can never be truly free when he knows that he is neglecting his duties elsewhere.

Fennel Hudson

#2. Like most severely overweight people, I had to hit a rock-hard bottom before I'd take responsibility for the consequences of neglecting my own health.

Stephen Furst

#3. I didn't know when I was growing up that this was a very special program, that this wasn't going on in other parts of the country. Now I realize that I was lucky.

Benny Green

#4. I am often struck by the anxious inferiority many well-educated British people display towards the U.S., particularly Londoners dazzled by New York, when many postcolonials are accustomed to regarding Britain's old imperial cosmopolis as the true capital of the western world.

Pankaj Mishra

#5. Make your learning abundant and speak of it with precision, then you will speak of essentials.

Mencius

#6. Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Jean De La Bruyere

#7. Why is it that some young folks are almost overly conscientious in their school work, even to neglecting their Church responsibilities, when the spiritual should have priority in the study time of every person if preference must be given? However, there is time for fulfilling every need.

Spencer W. Kimball

#8. As power and responsibility become ever more separated, those with power will act in an increasingly irresponsible fashion, perhaps even neglecting the very source of their power. Why should they not? Surely, they think, their power lies apart from any responsibility.

Christopher G. Nuttall

#9. She is afraid of divorce, which will free her, as she was not enough afraid of marriage, which trapped her.

A.S. Byatt

#10. If you're trapped in a room, and nobody is coming to save you, what can you do? You have to bang on the walls and break the windows. You have to climb out and save yourself. It's obvious, Li-ling, that crying doesn't help a person live.

Madeleine Thien

#11. The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music.

Pierre Boulez