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.
~By John L. Lewis ~
People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.
~By Keith Henson ~
Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
~By Diogenes ~
Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
Last night I neglected to mention something that bears repeating.
~By Ron Fairly ~
Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
~By Sophocles ~
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.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.
~By Nicholas D. Kristof ~
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 management.
~By John Doolittle ~
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
~By Noah Webster ~
I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.
~By Kenny Guinn ~
A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.
~By Edgar Saltus ~
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
~By Howard Crosby ~
The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.
~By Ronald Fisher ~
If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.
~By Helen Clark ~
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
~By J. K. Rowling ~
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
~By Tatum O'Neal ~
America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.
~By Tom Harkin ~
Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.
~By John Charles Polanyi ~
So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.
~By Jeffery Deaver ~
People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
~By Edward W. Howe ~
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.
~By Havelock Ellis ~
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
What time he can spare from the adornment of his person he devotes to the neglect of his duties.
~By William Hepworth Thompson ~
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect.
~By Robert Fitzgerald ~
Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.
~By George Whitefield ~
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years.
~By David Chalmers ~
There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
~By Barack Obama ~
It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.
~By Marguerite Duras ~
She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.
~By Anne Bronte ~
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~
Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.
~By Ludwig Quidde ~
Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.
~By Fanny Kemble ~
Today, the growing economic and social pressures in our country are putting millions of women, children and families at increased risk of abuse and neglect, especially when families are denied basic support services and economic opportunity.
~By Robert Casey ~
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
~By George Washington ~
If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth.
~By Jupiter Hammon ~
The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.
~By John Conyers ~
Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
~By Colin Powell ~
The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.
~By Matthew Lesko ~
Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.
~By Dixie Lee Ray ~
Lost are many great commissions by such neglect.
~By James Wyatt ~
We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.
~By Anne Sullivan Macy ~
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.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music.
~By George Crumb ~
I would find myself backing away from all of the "isms," all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected.
~By Anthony Braxton ~
The president's budget proposals have neglected water infrastructure.
~By Sue Kelly ~
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.
~By Hosni Mubarak ~
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
~By Barbara Sher ~
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
~By Lord Melbourne ~
We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
~By Robert Baden-Powell ~
A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things.
~By Clyde Tombaugh ~
They just neglected a large portion of the front row.
~By Gary Cooper ~
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.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.
~By Marguerite Gardiner ~
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
~By Richard Whately ~
The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world.
~By Amartya Sen ~
I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
Neglect of appearance becomes men.
~By Ovid ~
It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
~By Mark Twain ~
Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.
~By Samuel P. Huntington ~
Adult stem cells have shown great potential and have effectively helped patients. Another alternative is cord-blood stem cells. These are a neglected resource that could be used to treat a diverse body of people.
~By Jim Ryun ~
But apart from the military measures, security measures, of course, Afghanistan needs great help for building up its social life, its economic life. It has become a very poor country, neglected for many years.
~By Bulent Ecevit ~
The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies.
~By Linus Torvalds ~
There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.
~By Mark Rutherford ~
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.
~By Percy Ross ~
Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.
~By John A. Logan ~
Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
~By Edward Dahlberg ~
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.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.
~By Ralph Marston ~
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
~By Richard Whately ~
He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
~By Abraham Joshua Heschel ~
We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.
~By David Elkind ~
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.
~By Jeffrey Sachs ~
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. And that's what they end up knowing about it.
~By Edwidge Danticat ~
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
~By Rose Kennedy ~
There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is.
~By Ellen Terry ~
It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.
~By Charles Babbage ~
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
~By Euripides ~
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
~By Confucius ~
The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury.
~By Ray Stannard Baker ~
We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.
~By Joe Baca ~
The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
~By C. Everett Koop ~
I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.
~By Maynard James Keenan ~
To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.
~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
The Lord did not bless us with any children of our own, so we gathered up little waifs whom we thought would be neglected and would not be cared for unless we brought them into our family.
~By John Harvey Kellogg ~
No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.
~By Eduard Shevardnadze ~
I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
~By Harriet Tubman ~
I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.
~By Billie Joe Armstrong ~
But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 years of life before I met Amy and before she met me, where you know, whatever happened was probably going to happen some day.
~By Vince Gill ~
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
~By James Anthony Froude ~
We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.
~By Alfred Adler ~
That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.
~By Michael Harrington ~
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.
~By John Woolman ~
I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
~By Don Van Vliet ~
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