Careful Quotes - Page 36

• A novel which has been too much worked over often goes flat, and no amount of laborious revision can take the place of careful planning beforehand.

  Sheila Kaye-Smith

  Revision, Too Much, Planning

  Sheila Kaye-Smith (1937). “Three Ways Home”

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• Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.

  Anne Tyler

  Moving, Years, Names

  Anne Tyler (1991). “Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels”, Outlet

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• Had I a careful and pleasant companion that should show me my angry face in a glass, I should not at all take it ill; to behold man's self so unnaturally disguised and dishonored will conduce not a little to the impeachment of anger.

  Plutarch

  Anger, Men, Self

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• A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.

  Agnes Repplier

  Years, Example, Construction

  Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.96, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• You have to be careful who you let define your good.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Be Careful

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.70, Baen Books

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• Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.

  Hosea Ballou

  Latter, Estates, Former

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• With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind and loving way. Even when you have occasion to rebuke, be careful to do it with manifest kindness. The effect will be incalculably better.

  Hosea Ballou

  Kindness, Way, Speak

  "Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou. By his youngest son, Maturin M. Ballou". Book by Maturin Murray Ballou, 1854.

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• You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Patience, Sheep, Years

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.10, A&C Black

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• The world of religion is no longer a concrete fact proposed for our acceptance and adoration. It is an unfathomable universe which engulfs us, and which lives its own majestic uncomprehended life: and we discover that our careful maps and cherished definitions bear little relation to its unmeasured reality.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Acceptance, Reality, Religion

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• Be careful never to retire to rest in a room not properly ventilated.

  Horace Mann

  Rooms, Be Careful, Retiring

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• The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

  Jane Addams

  Play, Cities, Temples

  Jane Addams (2016). “The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets”, p.10, Youcanprint

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• When you get older you have to be careful about always saying, "Things aren't as good as they used to be." But it's hard not to.

  Andy Rooney

  Age, Aging, Used

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• A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Food, Men, Cooking

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• Be careful not to be the first to put your hands in the dish. What you cannot hold in your hands you must put on your plate. Also it is a great breach of etiquette when your fingers are dirty and greasy, to bring them to your mouth in order to lick them, or to clean them on your jacket. It would be more decent to use the tablecloth.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Dirty, Food, Hands

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• It is not elegant to gnaw Indian corn. The kernels should be scored with a knife, scraped off into the plate, and then eaten with a fork. Ladies should be particularly careful how they manage so ticklish a dainty, lest the exhibition rub off a little desirable romance.

  Charlie Day

  Food, Knives, Romance

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• Having gandchildren you see the world through much broader perspectives. And you're more aware of your actions your thoughts and how it will affect your family. And the families around your family. You have to be a lot more careful. But you also relax a little bit. Because, you know, you've done your duty. I've reproduced and my reproductions have reproduced.

  Terrence Howard

  Perspective, Relax, Done

  "Find Out What the Hell Happened to Terrence Howard". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.gq.com. March 6, 2013.

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• I am afraid for my health. I'm definitely burning the candle a little, at both ends, and I have to be careful about that.

  Zachary Levi

  Burning, Littles, Ends

  "Zachary Levi Talks Heroes Reborn, the Tangled Tv Series, the Nerd Machine, Comic-con & More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 3, 2015.

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• Be careful about anybody who's running for president who's going to tell you that they're going to build a wall across the entire southern border. It's not going to happen. It is the wrong message to send. And it's not going to be effective.

  Chris Christie

  Running, Wall, Southern

  "Gov. Chris Christie discusses his presidential bid". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. July 5, 2015.

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  Be careful what you ask for because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well.

  Denzel Washington

  Rain, Mud, Praying

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no chuming, no inside knowing of things. If she had chuming she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear.

  Amy Tan

  Daughter, Eye, Knowing

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club: A Novel”, p.190, Penguin

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• my husband, who is a lawyer, is very careful with words and with the truth. He thinks that the truth exists, and it's something that is beyond questioning, which I think is totally absurd. I have several versions of how we met and how wonderful he was and all that. At least twenty. And I'm sure that they are all true. He has one. And I'm positive that it's not true.

  Isabel Allende

  Truth, Husband, Thinking

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• Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Medicine, Enemy, Poison

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• Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Letters, Firsts, Vulgar

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.162, Open Road Media

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• you have to be very careful when you give to others that you don't tell them how great you are rather than how much you value them.

  Merle Shain

  Giving, Values

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• We must be careful that the people who make $5,000 a year are not pitted against those that make $25,000 a year by those who make $900,000.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Years, People, Rich

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