Reckless Quotes - Page 7

• Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.

  Homer

  Pain, Way, Odyssey

  Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.48, Penguin

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.

  Scott Turow

  Suicide, Odds, Drug

  Scott Turow (2006). “Limitations”, p.119, Macmillan

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Pennsylvania Game Commission has charged a man with going deer hunting with a handgun in a Wal-Mart parking lot. He is being charged with reckless endangerment, but may plead guilty to the lesser charge of being a redneck.... Hunting in a Wal-Mart parking lot. That's got to be some good eating — a deer that lives on leftover Twizzlers and Mountain Dew.

  Jay Leno

  Redneck, Hunting, Men

  7 Copy quote

• My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence.

  Robert Schumann

  Ideas, Giving, Way

  Robert Schumann (1907). “The Letters of Robert Schumann”

  58 Copy quote

  Show source

• The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.

  Ben Stein

  Good Times, Lending, Burned

  4 Copy quote

• Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of the strong possibilities that they are founded on nothing.

  John Ashbery

  Beautiful, Art, Strong

  John Ashbery, David Bergman (1989). “Reported sightings: art chronicles, 1957-1987”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• But then I had long mistaken being spoiled for being strong, being defiant for being independent, being reckless for being brave.

  Tami Hoag

  Strong, Independent, Long

  Tami Hoag (2002). “Dark Horse”, p.34, Bantam

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• President Obama's reckless defense cuts that are hanging over our cloud, hanging over the horizon could put almost 44,000 jobs at stake right here in Pennsylvania. we are not going to let that happen. You know why? Because No. 1, national defense is the first priority of the federal government.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Cutting, Clouds

  "Ryan: Happy to cling to guns, religion" by Juana Summers, www.politico.com. August 21, 2012.

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a playmaker. I'm always attacking the rim and have somewhat of a reckless style. I try to be everywhere at once.

  Jeremy Lin

  Style, Trying, Attacking

  7 Copy quote

• The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of chance, occupation, or so-called business, which takes money from the person who may be possessed of it without giving value received in return. It is opposed to all practices the tendency of which is to encourage the spirit of reckless speculation, and particularly to that which tends to degrade or weaken the high moral standard which the members of the Church, and our community at large, have always maintained

  Heber J. Grant

  Gambling, Practice, Games

  7 Copy quote

• As he followed Bill back to the others a wry though came to him, born no doubt of the wine he had drunk. He seemed set on course to become just as reckless a godfather to Teddy Lupin as Sirius Black had been to him.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wine, Drunk, Black

  7 Copy quote

• I'm happy doing stand-up, but I'll probably do a television show eventually. If not, I'll delve into this Internet world and decide best how to harness it. What I like best about it is the independent movie style and the ability to just be completely reckless within that world. I like that a lot. I just have to acquaint myself with technology.

  Norm MacDonald

  Independent, Technology, Style

  Interview with Andy Seifert, www.avclub.com. May 14, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think the way I feel when I look at Evan comes from her. In pictures taken the day she married my dad, she was reckless, laughing, spinning around in circles. She looked like her whole world was him. She looked a kind of happy I can't even imagine. I don't want that. I don't want to be like that. I don' want to feel the way she did because I know what happens when you do. You love with your whole heart, with everything, and you wake up one morning and kiss someone good-bye the way you always do except you mean it as good-bye forever.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Morning, Dad, Taken

  4 Copy quote

• My father had put these things on the table. I looked at him standing by the sink. He was washing his hands, splashing water on his face. My mamma left us. My brother, too. And now my feckless, reckless uncle had as well. My pa stayed, though. My pa always stayed. I looked at him. And saw the sweat stains on his shirt. And his big, scarred hands. And his dirty, weary face. I remembered how, lying in my bed a few nights before, I had looked forward to showing him my uncle's money. To telling him I was leaving. And I was so ashamed.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Brother, Uncles, Father

  5 Copy quote

• It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't profound.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Profound, Portraits, Driving

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.150, Vintage

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• President Obama instituted the most anti-growth, anti-investment, anti-jobs measures that we have seen in our lifetime. Now he called his agenda ambitious, I call it reckless.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Usa, Growth

  8 Copy quote

• At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I'm glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless.

  Eddie Vedder

  Responsibility, Needs, Realizing

  5 Copy quote

• Courage is rarely reckless or foolish... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.

  Margaret Truman Daniel

  Motivational, Adventure, Army

  10 Copy quote

• In crime the egoist has hitherto asserted himself and mocked at the sacred; the break with the sacred, or rather of the sacred, may become general. A revolution never returns, but an immense, reckless, shameless, conscienceless, proud—crime, doesn't it rumble in the distant thunder, and don't you see how the sky grows ominously silent and gloomy?

  Max Stirner

  Sky, May, Proud

  8 Copy quote

• The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Powerful, Doctors, Ignorant

  Desiderius Erasmus, Betty Radice (1990). “Praise of Folly”

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

  Larry Elder

  War, Stupid, People

  Larry Elder (2001). “The Ten Things You Can't Say In America”, p.253, Macmillan

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Heart always wins out over the mind. The heart, although reckless and suicidal and a masochist all on its own, always gets its way.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Heart, Suicidal, Winning

  19 Copy quote

• Nature has a way sometimes of reminding Man of just how small he is. She occasionally throws up terrible offspring's of our pride and carelessness to remind us of how puny we really are in the face of a tornado, an earthquake, or a Godzilla. The reckless ambitions of Man are often dwarfed by their dangerous consequences. For now, Godzilla - that strangely innocent and tragic monster - has gone to earth. Whether he returns or not, or is never again seen by human eyes, the things he has taught us remain...

  Raymond Burr

  Ambition, Eye, Pride

  "Fictional character: Steve Martin". "Godzilla 1985", www.imdb.com. 1984.

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• Saddam Hussein had a lengthy history of reckless and sudden aggression. He cultivated ties to terror -- hosting the Abu Nidal organization, supporting terrorists, and making payments to the families of suicide bombers. He also had an established relationship with Al Qaida -- providing training to Al Qaida members in areas of poisons, gases and conventional bombs. He built, possessed, and used weapons of mass destruction.

  Dick Cheney

  Suicide, Mass Destruction, Organization

  4 Copy quote

• Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.

  Edward Abbey

  Philosophy, Moral, Moral Philosophy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.11, RosettaBooks

  7 Copy quote

  Show source