Neglect Quotes
648 quotes by 487 authors
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Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent…
— Matt Blunt
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Child abuse continues to be a significant problem in the United Sates. It was estimated that 2001,903,000 children were the victims of child abuse or…
— Pete Domenici
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The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.
— John L. Lewis
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I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I see him at…
— John Owen
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Those years, months, weeks, days, and hours, that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, and with duty, will certainly be filled…
— Thomas Brooks
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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.
— D. A. Carson
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There is much the government can do and should do to improve the environment. But even more important is the individual who plants a tree…
— Lady Bird Johnson
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How often do we sigh for opportunities for doing good, whilst we neglect the openings of Providence in little things, which would frequently lead to…
— George Crabbe
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Stubborn selfishness leads otherwise good people to fight over herds, patches of sand, and strippings of milk. All this results from what the Lord calls…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Many Christians are satisfied with their destination but they neglect the journey.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.
— Mary Stewart
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Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as…
— Amartya Sen
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Let them no more say, God must do all, we can do nothing, and so encourage themselves to live in a careless neglect of God,…
— Increase Mather
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Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you....
— Thomas Jefferson
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There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a…
— Andrew Goodman
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Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.
— Alexandra David-Neel
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Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity latent…
— Yukio Mishima
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One great flaw in the reforming passion is that in its eagerness to remedy social wrongs it tends to neglect, certainly to undervalue, the experience…
— Irving Howe
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I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it’s at its extreme.…
— Edwidge Danticat
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