Careless Quotes

294 quotes by 253 authors

Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent, or careless, but on the contrary it awakens us, urges us on, and makes us… — Huldrych Zwingli
Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's… — William Faulkner
A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for ourselves-these… — Barbara Kingsolver
It is happily and kindly provided that in every life there are certain pauses, and interruptions, which force consideration upon the careless, and seriousness upon… — Lyndon B. Johnson
The media only report stupid or careless answers, not stupid or unfair questions. — Colin Powell
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought. — Marcus Aurelius
Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name… — Noah Webster
In matters of trust and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small, for the general principles which determine the conduct of… — Albert Einstein
I would like to say something, not just to Vietnam veterans in New England, but to men who were in Vietnam, who I hurt, or… — Jane Fonda
When there are no avenues of escape or one is caught even before any attempt to escape can be made, then for the first time… — Gichin Funakoshi
Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression. — Samuel Johnson
Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the… — Thomas Gray
Dear God, teach me to be careless. — Hanif Kureishi
It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they… — Thucydides
I've been a bad, bad girl - I've been careless with a delicate man. — Fiona Apple
I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless. — Ernest Hemingway
Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions of acres by… — Wendell Berry
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and… — Bertrand Russell
Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already. — Gautama Buddha
Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession. — Gautama Buddha

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