Negligent Quotes

“I don't think they're terrible parents. They love us. I think they're negligent parents. That's not the same thing.”

“Economists are generally negligent of their heroes.”

“You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.”

“Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that because of it he will be judged more heavily if he is negligent.”

“The power of touch. Life is controlled by such a facet manipulated by Man. All are knowledgeable of its boundaries, most are negligent.”

“Remember the proverb: 'A sign is enough for the alert, but a thousand counsels are not enough for the negligent.”

“That physician is no better than a murderer, that negligently delayeth till his patient be dead or past cure (389).”

“The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.”

“How can you say that so casually? You're talking about the possible death of hundreds of people, yourself included."He gave a negligent shrug. "Wrong place, wrong time. Life sucks.”

“Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.”