Quotes About Negligent

#1. Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.

Hugh Blair

#2. Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good insome particular but negligent or narrow in the rest; and hypocrisy and vanity are often the disgusting result.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Why then should I be concerned for human readers to hear my confessions? It is not they who are going to 'heal my sicknesses' (Ps. 102: 3). The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.

Augustine Of Hippo

#4. It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily, and never possess any virtue in its fullness, while the energetic and industrious make notable advances on both fronts.

Saint Ignatius

#5. I don't think they're terrible parents. They love us. I think they're negligent parents. That's not the same thing.

Justine Larbalestier

#6. Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of body; and you can have this experience if your are negligent, because these things don't normally happen by themselves.

Socrates

#7. With all prayer (Eph. 6:18) All sorts of prayer- public, private, mental, vocal. Do not be diligent in one kind of prayer and negligent in others ... let us use all.

John Wesley

#8. The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.

Benjamin Franklin

#9. There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.

Saul Williams

#10. Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that, because of it, he will be judged more heavily if he is negligent.

Bridget Of Sweden

#11. She thought that Fontley had suffered as much from a negligent mistress as from an improvident master.

Georgette Heyer

#12. The best ground untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is negligent or uncorrected, cannot but grow wild and godless.

Joseph Hall

#13. The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry.

Thomas De Quincey

#14. The real issue is not if a crossing is put in, but when. It would be negligent on the part of Union Pacific and the California Public Utilities Commission to not address the problem.

Dean Smith

#15. Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#16. Most Americans don't know about environmental problems, because we have in our country a negligent and indolent press. The biggest lie that the right wing holds in our country is that there is such a thing as a liberal media. Americans are getting their news from the right-wing media.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#17. The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.

Samuel Richardson

#18. Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Cleopatra

#19. When one drives away the negligent through vigilance, he climbs the heights of wisdom, and can see the suffering masses. Serene, you look upon the lost like one that stands on a mountain sees those that stand upon the plain.

Gautama Buddha

#20. There was no theater in my high school. I think even our art program was cut - it was so bad. I didn't even know that was a possibility in college or in high school; I hadn't even thought of it. It was pretty negligent. My father has run a bulldozer all of his life, and my mom is in real estate.

Boyd Holbrook

#21. Remember the proverb: 'A sign is enough for the alert, but a thousand counsels are not enough for the negligent.

Idries Shah

#22. How can you say that so casually? You're talking about the possible death of hundreds of people, yourself included."
He gave a negligent shrug. "Wrong place, wrong time. Life sucks.

Shannon K. Butcher

#23. As a veteran, I believe we have a responsibility to take care of all our men and women who have served - and I will fight to fix the crisis at the Veterans Administration caused by negligent leadership in Washington.

Joni Ernst

#24. Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent, or careless, but on the contrary it awakens us, urges us on, and makes us active in living righteous lives and doing good. There is no self-confidence to compare with this.

Huldrych Zwingli

#25. The more opportunities there are in a Society for some persons to live upon the toil of others, and the less those others may enjoy the fruits of their work themselves, the more is diligence killed, the former become insolent, the latter despairing, and both negligent.

Anders Chydenius

#26. One must not be negligent in learning. In the Lun Yu it says: "To study and not to think is darkness. To think without study is dangerous."

Takeda Nobushige

#27. Economists are generally negligent of their heroes.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#28. She felt as though she'd been unforgivably negligent - careless! sloppy! - with the most precious, wonderful gift she'd ever received.

Liane Moriarty

#29. I may be negligent, foolish, and fearful;
In every one of these no man is free ...

William Shakespeare

#30. Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#31. It is said that the inferior seek to emulate the superior. Thus, if a general slackens only a little, those beneath him will be greatly negligent.

Kato Kiyomasa

#32. Someone picked up the sun and pinned it to the sky again, but every day it hangs a little lower than the day before. It's like a negligent parent who only knows one half of who you are. It never sees how its absence changes people. How different we are in the dark.

Tahereh Mafi

#33. He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

Samuel Johnson

#34. I give you a week, maybe two, before you're driven to bite someone."
"I don't know how to ... to bite or drink! But you could teach me."
"And what could you possibly do in return?" Lothaire waved a negligent hand. "Play football for me? Break in my jeans really well?

Kresley Cole

#35. A woman without hobbies is dangerously self-negligent.

Shannon Hale

#36. Memory of our good works makes us negligent and leads to arrogance. Do not think of your good deeds, so that God may remember them.

Saint John Chrysostom

#37. To see the dull indifference, the negligent and thoughtless air that sits upon the faces of a whole assembly, while the psalm is upon their lips, might even tempt a charitable observer to suspect the fervency of their inward religion.

Isaac Watts

#38. People don't have a constitutional right to leave loaded guns lying around. And if they choose to do so - and a kid gets shot and killed because of it - it's not an accident. It's negligent homicide.

Kurt Eichenwald

#39. The most important of your affairs in my view is prayer; whoever prays regularly has protected his faith, but whoever neglects it, is bound to be more negligent in other issues of faith.

Umar

#40. You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.

Ian Rankin

#41. Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

Jane Austen

#42. All men are negligent of their souls till grace gives them reason, then they leave their madness and act like rational beings, but not till then.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#43. Because of laziness the roof caves in, and because of negligent hands the house leaks. Ecclesiastes 10:18

Beth Moore

#44. The simple fact is that there is a limited amount of water on the planet, and we cannot afford to be negligent in its use. We cannot keep treating it as if it will never run out.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#45. The power of touch. Life is controlled by such a facet manipulated by Man. All are knowledgeable of its boundaries, most are negligent.

Brian Vihlen

#46. Criminally negligent narcissists, child endangerers, child abusers, religious maniacs, and kleptoparasites, meaning they stole from their own descendants. These things happen.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#47. Daughters aren't trash you can toss away, Dad. I had to deal with the mess you left.

Katherine McIntyre