Carelessly Quotes

68 quotes by 62 authors

For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would… — Glenway Wescott
There was a small wooden gazebo built out over the water; Isabelle was sitting in it, staring out across the lake. She looked like a… — Cassandra Clare
What I wanted was to die among strangers, untroubled, beneath a cloudless sky. And yet my desire differed from the sentiments of that ancient Greek… — Yukio Mishima
Sejal had not thought of her home, or of India as a whole, as cool. She was dimly aware, however, of a white Westerner habit… — Adam Rex
But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some practice I had… — Lionel Shriver
Well, if you weren't flirting with him"-his voice had now grown a little plaintive-"who was he, and what did you want with him anyway?" "If… — Anna Godbersen
People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing… — W. Somerset Maugham
We are often told we are materialistic. It seems to me, we are not materialistic enough. We have a disrespect for materials. We use it… — George Monbiot
This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will blow Above me like… — Sara Teasdale
Love was also an easy word, used carelessly. Felons and creeps could offer it coated in sugar, and users could dangle it so enticingly that… — Deb Caletti
How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain's festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are fault lines in… — Arundhati Roy
He had never looked forward to the wisdom and other vaunted benefits of old age. Would he be able to die youngâ€”and if possible free… — Yukio Mishima
Oh, I'll trust you," the boy told him carelessly. "It hardly matters. We are all betrayed sooner or laterâ€”all betrayed, or traitors." "I see that… — Cassandra Clare
We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief. — Veronica Roth
If I find myself half-carelessly taking lapses for granted, "Oh, that's what they always do." "Oh, of course she talks like that, he acts like… — Amy Carmichael
This, perhaps, goes to show that conditional self-esteem, as I have said for many years, is an insidious, real sickness, so much so that even… — Albert Ellis
The masses of Negroes...particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disasterously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more than among whites,… — Margaret Sanger
We need to start seeing privacy as a commons - as some kind of a public good that can get depleted as too many people… — Evgeny Morozov
Life runs to death as its goal, and we should go towards that next stage of experience either carelessly as to what must be, or… — James Stephens

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