Careless Quotes

294 quotes by 240 authors

Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life. — Brenda Ueland
Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die… — Margaret Drabble
Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge,… — George MacDonald
Writers take words seriously-perha ps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless… — John Updike
Sunday morning, before we go to hear the Word of God preached...let us not rush into Godâ€™s presence careless, reckless, and unprepared, as if it… — J C Ryle
...though every thinking being longs for God, the First Cause, it is powerless... to grasp Him. Tired with the yearning it chafes at the bit… — Gregory of Nazianzus
Tell the Earth how much you care, how beautiful she is, and how much you love her. Ask for her forgiveness for having been so… — Yoko Ono
I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden. — Michel de Montaigne
When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters told us that… — C.S. Lewis
The Creator is not a careless mechanic. — Ina May Gaskin
If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading. — Henry Green
We have to learn to remind the other parents who think we're being careless when we loosen our grip that we are actually trying to… — Lenore Skenazy
'Tis not need we know our every thought Or see the work shop where each mask is wrought Wherefrom we view the world of box… — Ezra Pound
Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his… — Oliver Goldsmith
A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless with an animal vigor unlike that of any European crowd that I ever looked at. — Ezra Pound
There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple… — John Galsworthy
If I am inconsiderate about the comfort of others, or their feelings, or even of their little weaknesses; if I am careless about their little… — Amy Carmichael
A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life. — Anna Quindlen
But I shall follow the endless, winding way, â€” the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I… — Herman Melville
To-morrow I will begin, thought Katy, as she dropped asleep that night. How often we all do so! And what a pity it is that… — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

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