Best Negligence Quotes
59 Negligence quotes by 50 unique authors
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I know that every difficulty we face in life, even those that come from our own negligence or even transgression, can be turned by the…
— Richard G. Scott
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The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ. By it we…
— Pope Benedict XIV
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Liberals have a new wish every time their latest wish is granted. Conservatives should make them spell out their principles and ideals. Instead of doing…
— Joseph Sobran
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The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his predecessor, the refuse…
— Samuel Johnson
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
— Ben Jonson
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We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and…
— Sharon Salzberg
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The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which…
— Adam Smith
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No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the…
— Samuel Johnson
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Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as mere abstract profit…
— Michel Foucault
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My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings…
— Khalil Gibran
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Here, then, is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult…
— R C Sproul
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When we realize a constant enemy of the soul abides within us, what diligence and watchfulness we should have! How woeful is the sloth and…
— John Owen
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All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction....Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the stories that were…
— Michael Chabon
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I love language, words, and all the lovely, exciting, and heart wrenching things you can do with them. Pick the right ones, put them in…
— Darynda Jones
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How heron comes It is a negligence of the mind not to notice how at dusk heron comes to the pond and stands there in…
— Mary Oliver
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We (Muslims) have no right, in our present misery, to boast of past glories. But we must realise that it was the negligence of the…
— Muhammad Asad
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What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all…
— Franz Kafka
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I hate those TV shows where characters talk about one thing, such as their patient on the operation table (let's say they're a doctor), then…
— Jaclyn Moriarty
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Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of…
— Horace
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When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity,…
— Samuel Johnson
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Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross…
— Clare Balding
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A State can sue for negligence as well as fraud damages.
— Barbara Ann Radnofsky
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The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence.
— John Olver
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I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe... Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the…
— Daniel Webster
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Trust we have to, but never be negligent.
— Tasneem Hameed
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