Careless Quotes

294 Careless quotes by 240 unique authors

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
Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy. — Gautama Buddha
Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack. — Gautama Buddha
Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he is speaking, and… — Teresa of Avila
Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in the repeated personal… — Paul Shepard
I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of an exposure, and… — Bob Hoover
Those who have gone through the high school of reporterdom have acquired a new instinct by which they see and hear only that which can… — Hugo Munsterberg
It is a sexual violation. It’s disgusting. The law needs to be changed, and we need to change. That’s why these Web sites are responsible.… — Jennifer Lawrence
Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied,… — Gretel Ehrlich
On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong.… — Confucius
The notion that the careless sinner is the smart fellow and the serious-minded Christian, though well-intentioned, is a stupid dolt altogether out of touch with… — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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