Careful Quotes - Page 23

• Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people - which is what I think it does mean - then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good. It isn't wrong for an actor to want to act his part as well as it can possibly be acted, but the wish to have his name in bigger type than the other actors is a bad one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Ambition, Mean, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.45, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash, careful not to get out of my depth and holding on to the lifeline which connects me with my things temporal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sea, Temptation, Swim

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Responsibility, Men, Cost

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3238, e-artnow

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• The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.

  W. H. Auden

  Prayer, Attention, Definitions

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• Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.

  Oswald Chambers

  Giving, Treasure, Poverty

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.151, Discovery House

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• The stars have their own language, you know. If you're careful, you can learn it.

  Sarah Jio

  Stars, Language, Knows

  Sarah Jio (2013). “The Last Camellia: A Novel”, p.27, Penguin

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• Remember that your dominating focus attracts, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful of what you focus on.

  Napoleon Hill

  Law, Focus, Remember

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• Life had a way of wrecking her careful plans, again and again. Roulette was more predictable than life. Small wonder she was so lucky at it.Life was not a wheel going round and round. It never, ever returned to the same place. It didn't stick to simple red and black and a certain array of numbers. It laughed at logic.Beneath its pretty overdress of man-imposed order, life was anarchy.

  Loretta Chase

  Simple, Men, Order

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• I think it's important to watch out for our environment and to be careful.

  Joe Jonas

  Thinking, Important, Watches

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• Be careful. Wait out your year. Come home.

  Jessica Day George

  Home, Years, Waiting

  Jessica Day George (2011). “Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow”, p.165, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• We encountered an awful lot of problems from the drastic leap we took with Wind Waker. I think we will be a bit more careful in the future, but if we find a new approach that not just the developers, but also the users would enjoy then I think we will want to break new ground again. But we haven’t found such an approach yet.

  Eiji Aonuma

  Thinking, Wind, Want

  "Nintendo Will Be "More Careful" Choosing Zelda Art Styles" By Lucy O'Brien, www.ign.com. November 4, 2013.

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• A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Cutting, Opportunity, Careers

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• My opinion is just be very careful when you're young and making the money.

  Corey Haim

  Opinion, Young

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• I think I have an addiction to pretty much everything. I mean, I have to be very careful with myself as far as that goes, which is why I have a support group around me consistently.

  Corey Haim

  Mean, Thinking, Addiction

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• I have to be careful not to do so many comedy airhead roles from now on. I've turned down a couple already.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Couple, Roles, Comedy

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• Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenerey that inspired Twoflower to use the word - that the landscape was horribly precipitous. Quaint, when used to describe the occasional village through which they passed, meant fever-ridden and tumbledown. Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, mean 'idiot'.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Tourists, Use

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)”, p.101, Random House

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• Our communications reflect in our countenance. Therefore, we must be careful not only what we communicate, but also how we do so. Souls can be strengthened or shattered by the message and the manner in which we communicate.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  Communication, Soul, Messages

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• Were we more careful to obey the part of the word of wisdom that deals with the "do's" it might be easier to obey the "don'ts"

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Exercise, Words Of Wisdom, Might

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• Have good associates or don't associate at all. Be careful in the selection of your friends. If in the presence of certain persons you are lifted to nobler heights, you are in good company. But if your friends or associates encourage base thoughts, then you had best leave them.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Friendship, Height, Good Company

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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• Knowing Master Huckaback to be a man of his word, as well as one who would have others so, I was careful to be in good time the next morning . . .

  R.D. Blackmore

  Morning, Men, Law

  M. J. Porteus, R.D. Blackmore (2014). “Lorna Doone: The Wild and Wanton Edition”, p.23, Crimson Romance

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• If one's careful study of the facts shows that the Catholic Church is correct about Jesus-his life, teachings, death, and Resurrection-then why not give the Church the benefit of the doubt and carefully study her reasons for rejecting contraception, homosexual acts, and women's ordination?

  Carl E. Olson

  Jesus, Teaching, Giving

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• I think I’m quite a lazy person, actually. If I’m not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.

  David Morrissey

  Thinking, Lazy, Bed

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• Poem for Liu Ya-tzu I cannot forget how in Canton we drank tea and in Chungking went over our poems when leaves were yellowing. Thirty-one years ago and now we come back at last to the ancient capital Peking. In this season of falling flowers I read your beautiful poems. Be careful not to be torn inside. Open your vision to the world. Don't say that waters of Kumming Lake are too shallow. We can watch fish better here than in the Fuchun River in the south.

  Mao Zedong

  Beautiful, Flower, Fall

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• It is especially imperative for Congress to exercise careful judgment in this area, because of the difficulty under existing laws, in obtaining judicial review of Postal Service abuses. ...We strongly oppose the legislation's infringement of rights guaranteed under the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution.

  John Shattuck

  Exercise, Dark, Rights

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• Let us our lives, our souls,
  Our debts, our careful wives,
  Our children, and our sins, lay on the King!

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Children, Wife

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [250]

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