Negligently Quotes

#1. Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.

Nina Bawden

#2. Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused

Samuel Johnson

#3. It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#4. The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole.

Corrine Brown

#5. When people in positions of trust mislead us - either recklessly, negligently or intentionally - that impacts the republic.

Trey Gowdy

#6. That physician is no better than a murderer, that negligently delayeth till his patient be dead or past cure (389).

Richard Baxter

#7. The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.

Robert Henri

#8. In 1759, the great lexicographer Dr Samuel Johnson wrote: 'Advertisements are now so numerous they are very negligently perused.' An opinion many people express to this day, without realizing its centuries-old ancestry.

Winston Fletcher

#9. I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.

Haruki Murakami

#10. No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.

Seneca The Younger

#11. The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

#12. Stop doing that." He motioned at her face. "Don't- Argh! Alright! There's something else. Just turn off the sprinklers.

Lauren Stewart

#13. Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.

Aneurin Bevan

#14. Motherhood, true motherhood, was what went on when no one else could see.

Sarah Addison Allen

#15. [Could you show us how Lana Del Rey dances in a club?] That would be illegal.

Lana Del Rey

#16. God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.

Nikki Giovanni