Top 100 Quotes About Neglected
#1. I once wrote deduceable instead of deducible in a book, though nobody then or since has taken me up on it. A small point as they go, perhaps, but Rule I of writing acceptably is to get everything right as far as you can, and in this case I had neglected to.
Kingsley Amis
#2. I'm doing all that I can to prod the industry and get them to pay more attention [ to larger women and petite women]. Because I find it to be reprehensible and repugnant that two populations that are so pervasive in this nation should be so badly neglected.
Tim Gunn
#3. This thought has met with the fate of many other useful projects, of being applauded and neglected.
Voltaire
#4. When you cease to fear your solitude, a new creativity awakens in you. Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself. You come home to yourself and learn to rest within. Thoughts are our inner senses. Infused with silence and solitude, they bring out the mystery of inner landscape.
John O'Donohue
#5. When autumn gusts blew in from the Rideau Lakes, parched brown leaves swirled and scattered around the sides of the neglected building, forming mounds like grave-markers, for ghosts of the past, who lingered on the dust-covered dance floor.
Arlene Stafford-Wilson
#6. And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.
Richard Avedon
#7. We have for a long time neglected our children. They are our richest treasure. We must give them time, attention and the love of our pure, unselfish hearts.
Dada Vaswani
#8. There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.
John Updike
#9. It almost seemed to her that those secret, unuttered, critical thoughts had suddenly taken visible and accusing shape and form in the person of this outspoken morsel of neglected humanity.
L.M. Montgomery
#10. I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Samuel Johnson
#12. The enemy uses all his power to lead the Christian, and above all the minister, to neglect prayer. He knows that however admirable the sermon may be, however attractive the service, however faithful the pastoral visitation, none of these things can damage him or his kingdom if prayer is neglected.
Andy Murray
#13. The American president [George W. Bush] closes his eyes to the economic and human damages that are inflicted on his country and the world economy by natural disasters, like Katrina, through neglected climate protection.
Jurgen Trittin
#14. It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered.
Confucius
#15. No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall to the ground and die away.
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
#16. You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.
Percy Ross
#17. The countries the most famous and the most respected of antiquity are those which distinguished themselves by promoting and patronizing science, and on the contrary those which neglected or discouraged it are universally denominated rude and barbarous.
Thomas Paine
#18. The basic formula of all sin is: frustrated or neglected love.
Franz Werfel
#19. You don't see many people crying over the wrong they do to God every time His word is neglected or when one willfully sins.
Monica Johnson
#20. Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
David Hume
#21. Freedom that is not fought for, that is not gained by personal sacrifice is freedom that will never last, because in the heart of the one set free, it will have little value. A treasure that costs nothing is a treasure that is easily neglected and lost.
Bryan Davis
#22. We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home; nor shall her chosen altar be neglected.
Grover Cleveland
#23. If your system is difficult or annoying to administer, it will be neglected, deprecated, and probably implemented incorrectly. It might even get sabotaged.
Michael T. Nygard
#24. 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.
Will Oldham
#25. A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.
[Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]
Quintus Curtius Rufus
#26. I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.'
Keri Russell
#27. I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.
John Bradshaw
#28. and although her mother and father come to church every Sunday, and give liberally to charities, their little girl is not taught to find happiness by thinking of others rather than of herself, and so that poor little self of hers often feels as much neglected as Maggie Horn ever did.
Amy Ella Blanchard
#29. If thou art rich, then show the greatness of thy fortune; or what is better, the greatness of thy soul, in the meekness of thy conversation; condescend to men of low estate, support the distressed, and patronize the neglected. Be great.
Laurence Sterne
#30. And I cherish more than anything else the Analogies, my most trustworthy masters. They know all the secrets of Nature, and they ought to be least neglected in Geometry.
Johannes Kepler
#31. When a Promise of Leadership is neglected or unfulfilled, trust is broken, engagement erodes, and performance suffers.
William A. Adams
#32. In his haste to get his client on and off the stand with as little damage as possible, Barney neglected to rebut most of the allegations from the state's witnesses. Ron could have explained his "dream confession" to Rogers and Featherstone the night after his arrest.
John Grisham
#33. 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.
Ray Stannard Baker
#34. His neglected heart, forsaken, isolated, was more lonely than the ace of hearts in the middle of a playing card.
Violet Trefusis
#35. Opens up a whole new view of Beckett. The strong mutual attraction between Beckett and Cunard may help explain the leftist political views he expressed both in these superb and long-neglected translations for Negro and elsewhere in his work.
Barney Rosset
#36. A university student attending lectures on general relativity i the morning and others on quantum mechanics in the afternoon might be forgiven for thinking that his professors are fools, or have neglected to communicate with each other for at least a century.
Carlo Rovelli
#37. None of it lay fallow and neglected, none of it under another's control; for being an extremely thrifty guardian of his time he never found anything for which it was worth exchanging. So he had enough time; but those into whose lives the public have made great inroads inevitably have too little.
Seneca.
#38. O Lord, I wish to promote thy holy religion which is dreadfully neglected. I am desirous to save young persons from the vices of the age.
Sarah Trimmer
#39. When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
Barbara Sher
#40. Had she insight, could she have pierced the barriers of her highly selective, insular world, she may have discovered that all her life she had been with a visual defect which had gone unnoticed and neglected by herself and by those closest to her: she was born color blind.
Harper Lee
#41. He was horribly neglected, forgotten, pushed aside. It was almost as if Hollywood was so ashamed of what was done to him that they almost made him disappear.
Julie Garfield
#42. It's fine to be on the side of the little guy, but he too will ultimately suffer if the health and concerns of the greater body he belongs to are neglected.
Sonia Sotomayor
#43. Surely Scripture is right when it makes the sin of sins that unbelief, which is at bottom nothing else than a refusal to take the cup of salvation. Surely no sharper grief can be inflicted upon the Spirit of God than when we leave His gifts neglected and unappropriated.
Alexander MacLaren
#44. I wanted you, precious reader, to feel the pain of the bullied, the neglected, the heartbroken, and the humiliated.
K.M. Walton
#45. Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
John Locke
#46. I am fat and flabby and that Dr. J. I. Packer is right when he says, "Here then is the root cause of our moral flabbiness; we have neglected God's Law."3
Alistair Begg
#47. 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.
Marguerite Gardiner
#48. My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means keeping Britain open to inward investors, trade and skilled workers. It means cutting red tape which is suffocating growing companies which create jobs.
Vince Cable
#49. I do think that you're starting to see young people pay attention to some longterm issues that they feel Washington has neglected.
Barack Obama
#50. The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.
Arthur Brisbane
#51. If you no longer have any income, you will not be neglected-you will not starve to death ... We panic at first, but God does not always allow the evil that is feared to happen.
Vincent De Paul
#52. I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest.
Graham Hancock
#53. It is time to stand strong for the American people. It is time to champion the interests of those constantly neglected on the question of immigration: the men and women and children we represent - the citizens of this country to whom we owe our ultimate allegiance.
Jeff Sessions
#54. He staked me out, marked as his property, said I was the only girl he would ever love, then he neglected me. I beat him up twice but it did no good, he only grew closer to Jem.
Harper Lee
#55. We are beginning to comprehend a basic truth hitherto neglected, that our physical condition is determined very largely by our emotional condition, and our emotional life is profoundly regulated by our thought life.
Norman Vincent Peale
#56. Have you ever seen that movie "Despicable me," the first one? Gru, the main character has become a criminal, and in a simple way, the creators of the movie suggest that he became that way because he was neglected by his mother.
Rita Chester
#57. -Books were once cherished belongings of people, that they weren't always just neglected and collecting dust.
Barbara Hodgson
#58. When people are voiceless, they will have temper tantrums like a child who has not been paid attention to. And riots are massive temper tantrums from a neglected and voiceless people.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#59. I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years.
David Chalmers
#60. Little did the artist know, who neglected his appearance in favor of his work, that the years would produce a breed that spent hours meticulously acquiring a neglected look to appear like an artist.
Vanna Bonta
#61. The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.
David Harvey
#62. She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected.
Jeanette Winterson
#63. A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.
Mark Twain
#64. A lean cheek, - a blue eye, and sunken, - an unquestionable spirit, - a beard neglected:- Then your hose should be ungartered, your bonnet unhanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and every thing about you demonstrating a careless desolation.
William Shakespeare
#65. It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored.
George Sand
#66. It might sound a paradoxical thing to say
for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time
but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms ...
Midge Decter
#67. We're all human. It's the most important, neglected fact in business.
Chip Conley
#68. 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.
Ralph Marston
#69. Americans are ugly unwashed clods that live off of government cheese. If I could, I'd take every living American, grind them up into a fine paste and use that paste to feed the dolphins, because they are neglected by the evil Americans.
Thom Yorke
#70. Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.
Francois Fenelon
#71. The square is your friend. Behind every missed lay-up is a tale of the square neglected.
Digger Phelps
#72. If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled.
Epictetus
#73. Memory, I must suppose, if it is neglected becomes like a box room, or a lumber room in an old house, the contents jumbled about, maybe not only from neglect but also from too much haphazard searching in them, and things to boot thrown in that don't belong there.
Sebastian Barry
#74. I have the distinct feeling that when I'm old, and I look back on my life, my thirties will be one huge blur. There's a lot that gets neglected: exercise, dishes, laundry, my poor garden. I try to prioritize the important but non-urgent things over the unimportant but urgent things.
Rebecca Makkai
#75. Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.
Ted Chiang
#76. Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of their age, and the legislators of science.
Samuel Johnson
#77. There is no idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps him in perpetual agitation, and hurries him rapidly from place to place.
Samuel Johnson
#78. I once cured an amateur skydiver of acute acrophobia. Now you could say he was all right because he was able to jump, but you could also say he was not all right because he was so stoned he neglected to open his parachute.
Robert Preston
#79. 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.
Samuel P. Huntington
#80. If you neglected to warn Djetth beforehand that you were going to shoot him down, Your Highness, he may consider you in breach of contract ...
Rhett
Rowena Cherry
#81. I've been poor and neglected, in the middle and cherished, then rich and miserable and back to the middle and now happy. I've lived it all.
Patricia Montandon
#82. I have never attempted to hide that I have had two husbands in my life.
I have, however, neglected to mention that in between them, I had a wife.
Marie Brennan
#83. I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#84. But the male lexicographers had somehow neglected to coin a word for the dislike of men. They were almost entirely men themselves, she thought, and had been unable to imagine a market for such a word.
Carl Sagan
#85. A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#86. As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.
Samuel Johnson
#88. A lesson church leaders need to learn is that relationships must not be neglected.
Flavil R. Yeakley Jr.
#89. Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters.
Eugenie De Guerin
#90. Cease seeking a strangers heart to love when your own remains neglected.
Sara Secora
#91. He who wishes to see how the soul inhabits the body should look to see how that body uses its daily surroundings. If the dwelling is dirty and neglected, the body will be kept by its soul in the same condition, dirty and neglected.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#92. It is our grave mistake that for many years we neglected pro-Western groups in order to avoid any friction with the existing rulers.
Jose Maria Aznar
#93. The corporations are powerful only because we have allowed them to be. In theory, it is we, not they, who mandate the state. But we have neglected our duty of citizenship, and they have taken advantage of our neglect to seize the reins of government.
George Monbiot
#94. My heart felt withered, a neglected fruit that would never again sweeten, now that my love was dead.
Cheryl R Cowtan
#95. Both 'Oz' and 'Homicide,' they're critically admired, so it's not like they're really neglected, but I wish they'd found bigger audiences.
Zeljko Ivanek
#96. The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.
William Gurnall
#97. What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#98. You can be a dynamic actor, but could never be a star if you never spend time with the media. That's something that I neglected to do.
Bokeem Woodbine
#99. Your power to choose can never be taken from you. It can be neglected and it can be ignored. But if used, it can make all the difference.
Steve Goodier
#100. After years of telling corporate citizens to 'trust the system,' many companies must relearn instead to trust their people - and encourage their people to use neglected creative capacities in order to tap the most potent economic stimulus of all: idea power.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
