Careless Quotes
294 Careless quotes by 240 unique authors
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Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.
— Lauren Oliver
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I wore it, this careless thing you don't even remember giving to me from your bag. It wasn't a gift, this thing I'm returning. It…
— Daniel Handler
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Trust is a careless pursuit.
— Lauren Kate
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You're a rotten driver,' I protested. 'Either you ought to be more careful or you oughtn't to drive at all.' 'I am careful.' 'No, you're…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Will was making a speech, something about having been young and careless once, the sort of thing old-timers said when they issued a deathblow, as…
— Libba Bray
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People get careless when they're feeling safe.
— Sue Grafton
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She is a mortal danger to all men. She is beautiful without knowing it, and possesses charms that she's not even aware of. She is…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.
— Andy Stanley
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I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.
— Mario Puzo
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In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I read more poetry…
— William H. Gass
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Phaedra shook her head. “If your people mean no offense, they should not speak their thoughts out loud in front of their children, Tesadora. Because…
— Melina Marchetta
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I have taken so many wrong turns and been so careless with precious things and managed to lose, or break, or leave out in the…
— Garrison Keillor
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But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no…
— James M. Barrie
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Careless talk costs lives.
— Elizabeth Wein
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She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made…
— Liane Moriarty
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Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by…
— Margaret Atwood
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There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.
— Mark Twain
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You are angry with your neighbor, you despise him, do not like to speak peaceably and lovingly to him, because there is something harsh, abrupt,…
— John of Kronstadt
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In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of…
— Saint Ignatius
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Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be…
— P.J. O'Rourke
Who Wrote These Careless Quotes
240 authors contributed a total of 294 Careless Quotes, led by these top contributors: