Ned Rorem Quotes

We will not take care. We do not give a damn.

How many of us, myself included, have lost our bearings; we are no longer attentive to the world in which we live; we don’t care; we don’t protect what God created for everyone, and we end up unable even to care for one another.

Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence.

Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.

I shoot an arrow into the air, where it lands I do not care: I get my arrows wholesale!

Evil is wrought by want of thought

I haven't put an ounce of effort into my families. I never have.

A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.

Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?

But evil is wrought by want of thought, As well as want of heart!

The greatest sin is carelessness.

The ultimate crime is not to care.

Clothing left on the bed unfolded. Books stained with coffee spots. Tabs not paid until the last possible second. Boys kissed and then forgotten in a week’s time.

Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge

Apathy borders upon folly.

Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth.

The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.

You were leaving, and you didn't even know if I was okay.

Bella, it's not my fault if you are exceptionally unobservant.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.

Nearly all our ills are the result of neglect in some way or other. And this truth may be said to apply to the ills of nations as well. Negligence is at the bottom of all decay. And decay always starts by showing little signs-or warnings. Then is the time to show interest and to be alert. There is nothing quite so easy as to neglect, and nothing quite so difficult as to repair that negligence. Negligence always carries a high price. It costs nothing to avoid it!