Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
Quotes about negligence (16 Quotes)
It is unacceptable for us to sit idly by as people die. This is true whether it is in the Deep South or Darfur, Sudan. This gnocide is one of the great horrors of our day, and we urge people of conscience everywhere to take action now before events force us to one day have to confess our sin of negligence and complicity.
This is part of the church hierarchy's calculated and frankly, evil campaign to scapegoat gay people for the decades of appalling sex abuse of children and young people that it alone created, nurtured, and covered up, ... abject, willful negligence of the hierarchy.
The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste one to whom labor is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature.
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, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.
The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence.
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 restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
This was just with gross negligence. Sometimes saying 'sorry' is enough and sometimes it is not and I am afraid this is one of those times,
In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.
The U. S. government is doing nothing to ensure that any attention is being paid to the spread of the epidemic among men who have sex with men and women who have sex with women, particularly in Africa. This negligence could sabotage the entire HIV prevention effort overseas.
They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious tenacious of their own practices and maxims soon offended by contradiction or negligence. . .
A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.
Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
It's going to be difficult in most circumstances to reach that standard of gross negligence when you have the context of an unknown enemy, an enemy that does use civilian clothes and is often using civilian vehicles and persons to attack.
To this point I stand,
That both the world, I give to negligence,
Let come what comes; only I'll be reveng'd
Most throughly for my father.
The gnosis of God is intermediate between immoderation, which is ascribing human characteristics to God, and negligence, which is denying any attributes to God.... The Truth lies in the balance between the two extremes.