Careless Quotes

294 quotes by 240 authors

...is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ...the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt,… — Thomas Jefferson
I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the war. Laws were… — John Marsden
If the Christian church is to move responsibly towards the future, it must restore or renew its ties with its past. Contemporary Catholic and Protestant… — Ronald H. Nash
How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and… — Benjamin Disraeli
The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is of course the… — William C. Bryant
The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about. — Mignon McLaughlin
Rights are not easy to obtain, and once we understand this, we must work attentively and persistently - and never become careless or lazy. — Malalai Joya
I am Retired Leisure. I am to be met with in trim gardens. I am already come to be known by my vacant face and… — Charles Lamb
I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value,… — Annie Dillard
Many of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from knives and fires,… — Gilbert Highet
One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some time, one learns… — Horace Walpole
The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited… — Wendell Phillips
How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though… — Elizabeth Drew
Actively we have woven ourselves with the very warp and woof of this nation-we have fought their battles, shared their sorrow, mingled our blood with… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Life is so short, it seems careless not to use it all. — Trevor McDonald
The American people need to know that money is being used effectively because frankly, the nation can't afford careless spending, no matter how well-intentioned. — Michael Enzi
It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner… — Socrates
Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle. In many parts of the world… — Pope John Paul II
Concerning the loved ones who have passed on ... do not try to make me believe that they are doing nothing, merely resting, careless ever.… — G. Campbell Morgan
For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she… — Horace

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