Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.
~By David Wilkerson ~
To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.
~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
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 ~
There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
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 ~
Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.
~By Dixie Lee Ray ~
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 ~
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 ~
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
~By James Anthony Froude ~
No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.
~By Eduard Shevardnadze ~
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 ~
I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself.
~By Joe Sacco ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
~By Sophocles ~
Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
~By Samuel Horsley ~
Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
~By William Wilberforce ~
America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.
~By Tom Harkin ~
It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.
~By Alice Hamilton ~
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 ~
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 ~
Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
~By Edward Dahlberg ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
My parents just neglected me, I wasn't abused or anything.
~By Andy Dick ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
~By Richard Whately ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 placement for children who cannot return home.
~By Matt Blunt ~
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 ~
It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.
~By Marguerite Duras ~
Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
~By David Hume ~
Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.
~By John Charles Polanyi ~
The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.
~By Jeremy Paxman ~
The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.
~By John Conyers ~
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 warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society.
~By Andrew Goodman ~
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 ~
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
~By Rose Kennedy ~
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 ~
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
~By Saint Augustine ~
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 ~
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
~By Benjamin Banneker ~
We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.
~By Alfred Adler ~
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
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. ~
The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.
~By Karen McDougal ~
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 president's budget proposals have neglected water infrastructure.
~By Sue Kelly ~
I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
~By Tatum O'Neal ~
The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.
~By Matthew Lesko ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.
~By Jeffery Deaver ~
The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.
~By Nassau William Senior ~
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 ~
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 ~
Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour.
~By Fritz Zwicky ~
We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.
~By Anne Sullivan Macy ~
It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.
~By Gerald R. Ford ~
How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
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 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 ~
We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
~By Robert Baden-Powell ~
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 ~
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 ~
What time he can spare from the adornment of his person he devotes to the neglect of his duties.
~By William Hepworth Thompson ~
They just neglected a large portion of the front row.
~By Gary Cooper ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
~By Plato ~
Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.
~By James C. Dobson ~
Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
~By Colin Powell ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 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 ~
People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
~By Edward W. Howe ~
A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.
~By Edgar Saltus ~
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 ~
A man should never neglect his family for business.
~By Walt Disney ~
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 ~
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 ~
When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
~By Barbara Sher ~
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 ~
Neglect of appearance becomes men.
~By Ovid ~
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 ~
It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
~By Mark Twain ~
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 ~
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