Neglect Quotes
The Christian faith grew through story - not text. Only later did the stories become Scripture. While the Scripture must be held in the highest regard, we must not neglect the power of story.
The challenge to each human is creation. Will you create with reverence, or with neglect?
She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.
I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it.
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 of those whose lives it wishes to improve.
My father had always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect.
The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.
The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.
One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.
Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.
One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate the hospital, such as doctors and nurses.
It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.
Throw in neglect and politicization of the judicial system and you see the result: soaring rates of cocaine trafficking through Venezuela and worsening corruption of institutions.
The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd and under roofs That our frail hands have raised?
I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.
What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony?
We are all farsighted, we give importance to those things that are far from us, while neglecting the things that are close to us... only to realize their value later when they are out-of-reach again.
Dictatorships by their nature are unrepresentative as they neglect the social needs of the people.
All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.
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.
If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.
Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.
On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character
The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.
Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.
A good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself which the neglect of legislators had forgotten to supply.
Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.
The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)
The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.
I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
We give physical exercise to the body, but neglect the heart. The exercise for the heart is uplifting the destitute and the suffering.
When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy lives.
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.
And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.