Careful Quotes - Page 33

• This was Barrington Erle, a politician of long standing, who was still looked upon by many as a young man, because he had always been known as a young man, and because he had never done anything to compromise his position in that respect. He had not married, or settled himself down in a house of his own, or become subject to the gout, or given up being careful about the fitting of his clothes.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Clothes, Long

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “The Prime Minister: Trollope's Works”, p.89, 谷月社

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• Be careful how you talk about God. He's the only God we have. If you let him go he won't come back. He won't even look back over his shoulder. And then what will you do?

  Harold Pinter

  Looks, Let Him Go, Shoulders

  Harold Pinter (2008). “Ashes to Ashes and Other Plays”, p.15, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• But however mysterious is nature , however ignorant the doctor, however imperfect the present state of physical science , the patronage and the success of quacks and quackeries are infinitely more wonderful than those of honest and laborious men of science and their careful experiments.

  P. T. Barnum

  Men, Doctors, Ignorant

  P. T. Barnum (2013). “The Humbugs of the World”, p.149, Lulu.com

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• Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that have been built up. The complexity of each phenomenon dawns on our minds, and makes us desirous of proceeding more cautiously. Heretofore we have seen the features common to all human thought

  Franz Boas

  Mind, Dawn, Development

  Franz Boas (1989). “A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911”, p.108, University of Chicago Press

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• I try to be a lot of things for the authors I work with - a careful reader, a helpful friend who also happens to be an experienced writer, a thoughtful editor, and a creative midwife.

  Kevin Sampsell

  Thoughtful, Editors, Creative

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It's funny when you write a song - it's easy for me now - but there's almost a second stage where you take control of the song. You start writing it, and if you're not careful, it just finishes itself and it might not be what you wanted. It's very strange, it takes over itself. It has its own life.

  Kate Bush

  Song, Writing, Might

  Interview with Paul Iorio, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2014.

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• For a song I was bought Now I lie when I talk With a careful eye on the cue card. Onto a stage I was pushed, With my sorrow well rehearsed. So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it).

  Conor Oberst

  Song, Lying, Eye

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• We wish to continue in following up the legacy of the Second Vatican Council whose wise regulations have still to be led to their fulfilment, being careful that a push, generous perhaps, but unduly timed, does not detract from the content and meaning of the council, and on the other hand being careful and reined and timid efforts do not slow up the magnificent drive of renewal and of life.

  Pope John Paul I

  Wise, Hands, Effort

  "Pope John Paul will continue policy of reform" by Peter Nichols, The Times, p. 1, August 27, 1978.

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• I'm just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I'm the sort of person who worries about the difference between "slim" and "slender."

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Writing, Differences, Worry

  Interview with Peter Hodges and Kate Baker, March 21, 2008.

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• Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their children's minds with preconceived prejudices and false concepts of past generations. Unless we are very careful, very careful indeed, and very conscientious, there is still great danger that our children may turn out to be the same kind of people we are.

  Brock Chisholm

  Children, Past, Thinking

  "What We Observed in Teaching General Semantics". Et cetera, 61, pp. 482-486, 2004.

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• Self carries grief as a pack mule carries the side bags, being careful between the trees to leave extra room.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Grief, Self, Tree

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• The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous!

  Frederick Franck

  Ego, Saint, May

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• After careful consideration, we have decided that for our next fiscal year, we'll issue guidance on comparable store used unit sales and on earnings per share only for the full fiscal year. We will no longer issue quarterly guidance. This decision reflects our continuing focus on longer-term store, sales, and earnings growth and on return on invested capital, and our recognition that the performance in shorter-term periods can be more volatile than over the longer term. As we report our quarterly results, we plan to comment on how our performance is tracking against our annual guidance.

  Austin Ligon

  Years, Issues, Focus

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• I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.

  Craig Johnson

  Poetry, Littles, Spirituality

  Craig Johnson (2004). “The Cold Dish: A Longmire Mystery”, p.277, Penguin

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• Fate often allows a future to take shape with no regard for our expectation, plan, or readiness. Fate's skillful editing of our life choices is like the careful grooming of lads on their first day of school: combed, polished, scrubbed, newly dressed, and glowing too. This is how we become ready for our life lessons.

  David Richo

  Life Lesson, School, Fate

  David Richo (2007). “The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know”, p.91, Shambhala Publications

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• Crocker's Rules didn't give you the right to say anything offensive, but other people could say potentially offensive things to you, and it was your responsibility not to be offended. This was surprisingly hard to explain to people; many people would read the careful explanation and hear, "Crocker's Rules mean you can say offensive things to other people."

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Responsibility, Mean, People

  "Radical Honesty". lesswrong.com. September 10, 2007.

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• You have to be careful when you use beauty as a guide. There are many theories people didn't think were beautiful at the time but did find beautiful later—and vice versa. I think simplicity is a good guide: The more economical a theory, the better.

  Lisa Randall

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

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• New York is like a big dinner party. You have to be very careful about what you say and do because you never know whose feet are touching under the table.

  Susanna Moore

  New York, Party, Feet

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• Be careful what you say if you wouldn't want it broadcast everywhere - because you never know. My basic advice would be - for trust - is: Live the way you ought to live - all the time - as much as you can help it.

  Ysabella Brave

  Advice, Would Be, Want

  YouTube Channel "Ysabella Brave"/"Trust - what's the secret?", www.youtube.com. January 27, 2008.

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• I've always been careful to put out the very best work I can. One of the things I value the most is the love and faith that people have given me over the years, so I try to live up to their expectations and my own standards of what I'm capable of.

  Jackie DeShannon

  Years, People, Expectations

  "Swingin' Chicks of the '60s: A Tribute to 101 of the Decade's Defining Women". Book by Chris Strodder, 2000.

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• It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines.

  David Maraniss

  Reading, Lines, Bills

  1995 On President Clinton's letter as a graduate student, 3 Dec 1969, to arrange RO TC enlistment to avoid being drafted for the Vietnam War, a position that was to haunt his future campaigning. First in His Class.

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• Guard, O my soul, against pomp and glory. And if you cannot curb your ambitions, at least pursue them hesitantly, cautiously. And the higher you go, the more searching and careful you need to be.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Ambition, Soul, Needs

  C. P. Cavafy (2015). “Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy”, p.14, Princeton University Press

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• If you are one of the truly elect, be careful how you attain your eminence.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Be Careful, Eminence, Ifs

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• Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff at it? It's like being careful not to sing pop songs in the shower because some guy in the local alt-weekly is a music snob.

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden

  Song, Guy, Dozen

  "Oh No Lev Grossman No". nielsenhayden.com. August 30, 2009.

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• A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader into the position of saying to himself: "If I'm not careful, something of this kind may happen to me!

  M. R. James

  Ghost Stories, May, Succeed

  M. R. James (1987). “Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories”, p.647, Oxford Paperbacks

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