Quotes about Neglect

Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles... My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.

History neglects nearly all these particulars, and cannot do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it. Nevertheless, these details, which are wrongly called trivial,—there are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation,—are useful.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Either we of the faith shall become a small persecuted, neglected island amid mankind, or we shall be able to life up at the end of the struggle the old battle cry, "Christus Imperat!

If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.

Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.

Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.

It was a small, dim room and the air in it seemed heavy, as if it had not been disturbed for years.

There are organizations that talk a lot about the customer and then completely neglect the people that deal with the customer—the employees.

It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered.

The rest of the trailer reeked of cat piss and abject poverty.