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Quotes about Neglect

I've learned that the greatest threat to love is not circumstance but the absence of attentions. For we do not neglect others because we have ceased to love; rather we ceased to love others because we have neglected them. I've learned that each day is a miracle unearned. I've learned that while life is ephemeral-a vapor- LOVE is not. In short, I have learned what matters and what does not.
— Richard Paul Evans
Everybody has something good inside them. Some hide it, some neglect it, but it is there
— Mother Teresa
Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.
— John Stott
I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
— Samuel Johnson
Good things lost amid a wilderness of weeds, to be sure, whose rankness far overtopped their neglected growth; yet, notwithstanding, evidence of a wealthy soil, that might yield luxuriant crops under other and favourable circumstances.
— Emily Bronte
A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.
— George Muller
The guy who sits in front of the television is unengaged. That man is a bad man.
— John Eldredge
How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
— Jonathan Edwards
Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And 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 multiplicity of objects and pursuits.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
New ideas are rightly suspect because they are often heretical. However, when biblical truths have been long neglected or ignored, attempts to present them may sound far-fetched. They may appear to be adding to or misinterpreting Scripture, when in fact they are simply portraying what Scripture has said all along but we've failed to grasp.
— Randy Alcorn
and he sprang out of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain that the chores would not be done. He
— Joseph Heller
Waste persons are those no longer useful as resources to a society for whatever reason, and have become apatrides, or noncitizens. Waste persons must be placed out of view-in ghettos, slums, reservations, camps, retirement villages, mass graves, remote territories, strategic hamlets-all places of desolation, and uninhabitable. We live in a century whose Master Players have created many millions of such "superfluous persons" (Rubenstein).
— James Carse