Inattentive Quotes
15 quotes by 14 authors
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The inattentive, slovenly way we drift into the presence of God is an indication that we are not bothering to think about Him. Whenever our…
— Oswald Chambers
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Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the smell of a…
— Oliver Sacks
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There is a huge boom in autism right now because inattentive mothers and competitive dads want an explanation for why their dumb-ass kids can't compete…
— Denis Leary
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While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion.…
— George Washington
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You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure you feel; but…
— Benjamin Franklin
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I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are…
— William Trevor
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Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.
— Michael Schudson
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By being inattentive to the needs of others, inevitably we end up harming them.
— Dalai Lama
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It…
— Thomas Jefferson
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...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
— Chinua Achebe
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A life to hold, or to see slip through uncaring and inattentive hands, but always a life. And given one, we wish for two, or…
— R.J. Ellory
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I am quite wiling to confide entirely in human being, except that at some moment or another human beings get preoccupied, moody, busy, inattentive, and…
— Anais Nin
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The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.
— Andrew Jackson
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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
— Andrew Jackson
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The writer, unlike his non-writing adult friend, has no predisposed outlook; he seldom observes deliberately. He sees what he did not intend to see; he…
— Elizabeth Bowen
Who Wrote These Inattentive Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 15 Inattentive Quotes as follows: