Reckless Quotes - Page 6

• Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Individual, Carrie

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.72, North Atlantic Books

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• You should always aim to be your own mouse, Lieam. In fact...you already are. You are not so quick to jump into danger as Saxon and not as pensive of mind as Kenzie. They rely on each other too much. Saxon knows he can afford to be reckless since Kenzie acts as his conscience. And Kenzie can linger in his thoughts and plans, because he knows Saxon can defend him. I tested Kenzie earlier. I wanted to see if he would be swayed by my advice. It took Saxon's coaxing to make up the greyfur's mind. Be compleete with in yourself young redfur...you will never disappoint. Even in solitude.

  David Petersen

  Advice, Solitude, Mind

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• And so, surpassing my own records for dangerous, reckless behavior, I ripped off Sonya's bracelet. "I'm Rose Hathaway.

  Richelle Mead

  Rose, Records, Behavior

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.285, Penguin

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• Patch was dressed in the usual: black shirt, black jeans and a thin silver necklace that flashed against his dark complexion. His sleeves were pushed up his forearms, and I could see his muscles working as he punched buttons. He was tall and lean and hard, and I wouldn't have been surprised if under his clothes he bore several scars, souvenirs from street fights and other reckless behavior. Not that I wanted a look under his clothes.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Fighting, Dark, Clothes

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• It was true what Jim said, this wasn’t the end but the beginning. But the wars would end one day and Jim would come then, to the island they would share. One day surely the wars would end, and Jim would come home, if only to lie broken in MacMurrough’s arms, he would come to his island home. And MacMurrough would have it built for him, brick by brick, washed by the rain and the reckless sea. In the living stream they’d swim a season. For maybe it was true that no man is an island: but he believed that two very well might be.

  Jamie O'Neill

  War, Lying, Rain

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• Louise, I would gladly fire the past for you, go and not look back. I have been reckless before, never counting the cost, oblivious to the cost. Now, I've done the sums ahead. I know what it will mean to redeem myself from the accumulations of a lifetime. I know and I don't care. You set before me a space uncluttered by association. It might be a void or it might be a release. Certainly I want to take the risk. I want to take the risk because the life I have stored up is going mouldy.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mean, Past, Space

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• Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

  Christopher Lasch

  Order, Innovation, Conservation

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• What madness! Yet she would do it, if she could force herself. She'd become, she believed, a stronger person: a willful, resolute. Like the man who adored her, reckless.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Men, Stronger, Madness

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• There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss.

  Ann Patchett

  Loneliness, Kissing, Air

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• The ability to calm your soul and wait before God is one of the most difficult things in the Christian life. Our old nature is restless... the world around us is frantically in a hurry. But a restless heart usually leads to a reckless life.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Christian, Heart, Waiting

  Warren W. Wiersbe (1983). “Meet Yourself in the Psalms”, Victor

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• Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teacher, Teaching, Years

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• Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.

  Chris Christie

  Government, People, Today

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• At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Thinking, Parent, Moments

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.225, A&C Black

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• He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Notes, Tenors, Wander

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.60, Hachette UK

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• In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.

  Philip Yancey

  Desire, Stories, Revelations

  FaceBook post by Philip Yancey from Sep 22, 2013

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• She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side and it ruined him forever. It broke him as he had not ever imagined he could have been broken. He would never again be young, or able to remember what it was like to be young. What he had once taken to be pleasures would appear to him in his defeat as hideous and deserved punishments for reckless vanity.

  Mark Helprin

  Taken, Winter, Lakes

  Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books

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• There are ways in which we’re so alike. We’re reckless. We don’t think before we act. We’ll do anything for people we love. And I never thought how scary that was for the people who loved me until I saw

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, People, Scary

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.522, Simon and Schuster

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• And here I thought you had a soft spot for reckless young girls.

  Richelle Mead

  Girl, Spots, Young

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.137, Penguin

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• The craft's occupants clutched their armrests, and more than one of them closed their eyes. But not Artemis. He couldn't. There was something morbidly fascinating about flying into an uncharted tunnel at a reckless speed with only a kleptomaniac dwarf's word for what lay at the other end.

  Eoin Colfer

  Eye, Dwarves, Tunnels

  Eoin Colfer (2014). “Artemis Fowl:”, p.339, Penguin UK

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• The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.

  Sarah Dunant

  Frustration, Boredom, Devil

  Sarah Dunant (2004). “The Birth of Venus: A Novel”, p.122, Random House

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• Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.

  Brennan Manning

  Empowering, Forgiving, Source

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.49, NavPress

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• The Chancellor looked down at the empty table for a minute. Then he shrugged, looked up, and gave a surprisingly jaunty smile. "All in favor of admitting first-term Kvothe's reckless use of sympathy as proof of mastery of basic principles of sympathy vote by show of hands.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Hands, Principles, Mastery

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• Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Justice, Demand

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.200, Beacon Press

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• Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack.

  Michael Moorcock

  Treasure, Care, Slaying

  Michael Moorcock (2008). “Elric The Stealer of Souls”, p.14, Del Rey

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• Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That's fine. But what do you do?

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Greedy, Fine

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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