Careless Quotes - Page 2

• A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

  David Hume

  Stupid, Philosophical, Design

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• The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Courage, Men, Order

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• Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

  Honore de Balzac

  Husband, Lying, Player

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.7, The Floating Press

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• Remember this, for it is as true as true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth as well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceri, elephants, moose, and water buffalo. Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Pregnancy, Thinking, Elephants

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• A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility.

  Robert Herrick

  Shoes, Ties, Cuffs

  'The End'

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• I never cared, I was careless,
  Fear bein afraid or maybe I'm afraid to be fearless.
  Or fear bein' fearless but fearful,
  So even in my carelessness...gotta be careful.

  Joe Budden

  Rap, Hip Hop, Fearless

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• That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

  Arundhati Roy

  Love You, People, Littles

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.112, Penguin Books India

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• I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.

  Taylor Swift

  Adventure, Trade, Careful

  "Taylor Swift Talks". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. October 4, 2010.

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• Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.

  Lauren Oliver

  Rage, Certain

  Lauren Oliver (2012). “Pandemonium (Delirium Trilogy 2)”, p.240, Hachette UK

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• Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Clever, Men

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• Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.

  William Merritt Chase

  Ambition, Succeed, Today

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• I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives.

  Annie Dillard

  Crush, Growth, Atheism

  1974 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch.10.

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• That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

  Robert Browning

  Wise, Song, Thinking

  "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad" l. 14 (1845)

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• Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.

  Johann Arndt

  Men, Yield, Giving

  Johann Arndt (1868). “True Christianity: A Treatise on Sincere Repentance, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc”, p.51

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• We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church. We have liberty, we have money, we live in comparative luxury. As a result, discipline has disappeared. What would a violin solo sound like if the strings on the musician's instrument were all hanging loose, not stretched tight, not disciplined?

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Attitude, Luxury

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• I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me.

  Margaret Walker

  Song, Keys, Southern

  Margaret Walker (2014). “Fields Watered with Blood: Critical Essays on Margaret Walker”, p.23, University of Georgia Press

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  Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

  John James Audubon

  Not Caring, Hunting, Fishing

  John James Audubon, Christoph Irmscher (1999). “Writings and drawings”

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• Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice.

  Saadi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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• Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.

  Laurie R. King

  Assumption, Possibility, Dues

  Laurie R. King (2005). “Locked Rooms: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes”, p.279, Bantam

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• If you make a careless choice, you can really ruin things and it can take awhile for them to repair.

  Jenny Slate

  Choices, Ruins, Ifs

  Source: collider.com

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• She is sloppy, careless, and have many flaws here and there, but she is so honest and innocent like she's still a kid.

  Um Ki-joon

  Drama, Kids, Here And There

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• We go lightheartedly on our way, never thinking that by a careless word or two we may have altered the whole course of human lives, for some person will take our advice and use it.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Thinking, Two, Advice

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Life, God

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• I'm growing fonder of my staff; I'm growing dimmer in the eyes; I'm growing fainter in my laugh; I'm growing deeper in my sighs; I'm growing careless of my dress; I'm growing frugal of my gold; I'm growing wise; I'm growing yes, I'm growing old!

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Wise, Eye, Laughing

  John Godfrey Saxe (1860). “The Money-king: And Other Poems”, p.34

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• God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless

  Saint Augustine

  Adversity, Men, Understanding

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