Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

I think there's just certain lyrics and certain forms of hip-hop that definitely rang true, again, to a lot of people's truth, but you…

— Solange Knowles

To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to…

— Samuel Johnson

“It is my conviction that, with the spread of true scientific culture, whatever may be the medium, historical, philological, philosophical, or physical, through which…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“My dear friend, clear your mind of cant [excessive thought]. You may talk as other people do: you may say to a man, "Sir,…

— Samuel Johnson

Galvanized people can do careless things. It is in the extreme and emotion-laden moments that distance and coolness are most required. I am tempted…

— George Friedman

Phaedra shook her head. “If your people mean no offense, they should not speak their thoughts out loud in front of their children, Tesadora.…

— Melina Marchetta

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

— Anonymous

Being carefree, you can fit in anywhere. If you’re not carefree you keep on bumping up against things. Your life becomes so narrow, so…

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Sunday morning, before we go to hear the Word of God preached...let us not rush into God’s presence careless, reckless, and unprepared, as if…

— J. C. Ryle

“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so…

— Daphne du Maurier

And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin, Kiss the…

— William Cowper

It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what…

— Thucydides

the greater part of the suffering in the world is caused not by wicked intents and hard hearts, but by the careless desire to…

— Marah Ellis Ryan

“The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?”

— Anthony Liccione

We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources of nature,…

— Catherine Crook de Camp