Neglect Quotes
648 quotes by 487 authors
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Jealousy is a terrible thing. I know all the psychological triggers. The fear of losing control, the fear of loss, the fear of abandonment, neglect…
— Michael Robotham
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If one accepts the 24th and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions. If we take…
— Wendell Berry
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The fact that the mind rules the body is, in spite of its neglect by biology and medicine, the most fundamental fact which we know…
— Franz Alexander
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Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information…
— John Doolittle
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The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect…
— John Donne
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Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through…
— Martin Luther
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Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world.…
— Roger Bacon
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Some legislators only wish to vengeance against a particular enemy. Others only look out for themselves. They devote very little time on the consideration of…
— Thucydides
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For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is sad to see anyone neglecting their body no matter who they are and what they do. You simply cannot be healthy or look…
— Miranda Kerr
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Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not…
— Petrarch
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Above all be much in secret prayer and meditation. By this you will fetch the heavenly fire that must kindle your sacrifice: remember you cannot…
— Richard Baxter
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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…
— Victor Hugo
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Those that study particular sciences, and neglect philosophy, are like Penelope's wooers, that make love to the waiting women.
— Aristippus
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Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty…
— Mark Twain
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If I were to give advice to young people, high-achieving young people for example, I'd have to say, don't neglect your family. Politics is important,…
— George H. W. Bush
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Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He…
— William James
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Oh brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea,…
— Andrew Bonar
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