Careless Quotes - Page 13

• Waste in all its forms is to be abhorred... I deplore giving money to an institution that is careless in its expenditures.

  DeWitt Wallace

  Giving Money, Waste, Form

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• How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Grief, Heart, Selfishness

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard”

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• We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.

  William Penn

  Next, Generations, Considering

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• Some women don't care how their quilts look. They piece the squares together any sort of way, but she couldn't stand careless sewing. She wanted her quilts, and Joy's, made right. Quilts stay a long time after people are gone from this world, and witness about them for good or bad. She wanted people to see, when she was gone, that she'd never been a shiftless or don't-care woman.

  Julia Peterkin

  Quilts, Squares, Long

  Julia Mood Peterkin (1927). “Black April: A Novel”, p.128, University of Georgia Press

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• I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Character, Men

  Oliver Goldsmith (1835). “His Works”, p.241

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• Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close,
  Up yonder hill the village murmur rose;
  There as I passed, with careless steps and slow,
  The mingling notes came soften'd from below;
  The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung,
  The sober herd that low'd to meet their young;
  The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool,
  The playful children just let loose from school;
  The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind,
  And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind;
  These all in sweet confusion sought the shade,
  And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Dog, Sweet, Children

  Oliver Goldsmith, “The Deserted VILLage”

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• To-morrow I will begin, thought Katy, as she dropped asleep that night. How often we all do so! And what a pity it is that when morning comes and to-morrow is to-day, we so frequently wake up feeling quite differently; careless or impatient, and not a bit inclined to do the fine things we planned overnight.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Morning, Night, Feelings

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• And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence,
  Till perjuries are common as bad pence,
  While thousands, careless of the damning sin,
  Kiss the book's outside, who ne'er look'd within?

  William Cowper

  Book, Kissing, Looks

  William Cowper (1866). “Poetical works”, p.76

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• Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  People, One Day, May

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• a daughter's love for a kind father ... is mixed with the careless happiness of childhood, which can never come again. Into the father's grave the daughter, sometimes a gray-haired woman, lays away forever the little pet names and memories which to all the rest of the world are but foolishness.

  Constance Fenimore Woolson

  Daughter, Memories, Father

  Constance Fenimore Woolson (2012). “Anne: A Novel”, p.129, The Floating Press

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• That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, while the man seems careless and indifferent.

  Sophy Burnham

  Eye, Men, Goal

  Sophy Burnham (2009). “The Treasure of Montsegur: A Novel of the Cathars”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Writing, Profound, Perfect

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• the greater part of the suffering in the world is caused not by wicked intents and hard hearts, but by the careless desire to shirk unpleasant facts, and the soft-heartedness that will assuage momentary pain at the price of making a life-long cripple, either mentally, morally, or physically.

  Marah Ellis Ryan

  Pain, Heart, Long

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• A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.

  Gene Tierney

  Thinking, Rose, Picks

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life.

  Anna Quindlen

  Inspirational, Half, May

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• Take good care of the things you have. Careless people spend more for a given standard of living.

  Catherine Crook de Camp

  People, Care, Given

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• If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading.

  Henry Green

  Reading, Laughing, Goes On

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• The Creator is not a careless mechanic.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Pregnancy, Moose, Birth

  Ina May Gaskin (2010). “Ina May's Guide to Childbirth”, p.141, Random House

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• When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters told us that Careless Talk costs Lives. It is equally true that Careless Lives cost Talk. Our careless lives set the outer world talking; and we give them grounds for talking in a way that throws doubt on the truth of Christianity itself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Talking, Giving

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• Most gay, conversational, careless, lovely city ... where one drinks golden Tokay until one feels most beautiful, and warm and loved - oh, Budapesth!

  Winifred Holtby

  Beautiful, Gay, Europe

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• I used to be a reasonably careless and adventurous person before I had children; now I am morbidly obsessed by seat-belts and constantly afraid that low-flying aircraft will drop on my children's school.

  Margaret Drabble

  Children, School, Flying

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• I wore it, this careless thing you don't even remember giving to me from your bag. It wasn't a gift, this thing I'm returning. It was barely a gesture, almost forgotten already, this thing I wore like it was dear to me. And it was. No wonder we broke up.

  Daniel Handler

  Giving, Bags, Gestures

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.179, Egmont UK

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• You're a rotten driver,' I protested. 'Either you ought to be more careful or you oughtn't to drive at all.' 'I am careful.' 'No, you're not.' 'Well, other people are,' she said lightly. 'What's that got to do with it?' 'They'll keep out of my way,' she insisted. 'It takes two to make an accident.' 'Suppose you met somebody just as careless as yourself.' 'I hope I never will,' she answered. 'I hate careless people. That's why I like you.' Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  I Like You, Hate, Eye

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.46, Atlântico Press

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• Will was making a speech, something about having been young and careless once, the sort of thing old-timers said when they issued a deathblow, as if they thought their sanctimonious ramblings disguised as empathy would be welcomed, but Evie was only half listening.

  Libba Bray

  Empathy, Listening, Would Be

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• Phaedra shook her head. “If your people mean no offense, they should not speak their thoughts out loud in front of their children, Tesadora. Because it will be their children who come to slaughter us one day, all because of careless words passed down by their elders who meant no harm.

  Melina Marchetta

  Children, Mean, People

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