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Quotes About Carefully

Make certain you tell them you are not my sister. Your sister? Why should anyone believe such an absurdity? she said hotly, shaken by the very notion. He touched her then. His elegant, pale hand reached out and touched her chin, tilting her face up to his. He looked at her carefully, his dark green eyes revealing only cursory interest. I cannot imagine, he said after a moment.
~ Anne Stuart
It was mockery, but not dismissal. Mockery that hid something else, something slick and sapient, and Will went after it carefully as tickling fish.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The craving today is for something light and spicy, and few have patience, still less desire, to examine carefully that which would make a demand both upon their hearts and
~ Arthur W. Pink
God's supremacy is also demonstrated in His perfect rule over the wills of men. Let the reader ponder carefully Exodus 34:24. Three
~ Arthur W. Pink
We must carefully examine regulations that could threaten the state of Arizona's water and power supply.
~ Trent Franks
Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.
~ Publilius Syrus
They'd all been carefully screened by the F.B.I., so probably not more than half a dozen were active members of the Communist Party.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Come, Watson, we must really take a risk and try to investigate this a little more closely.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
There was no element of self-sacrifice in their relationships, but instead a carefully balanced system of debit and credit. If the debit column grew too long, the friendship would break up.
~ Shintar? Ishihara
All her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value.
~ Georges Bernanos
No, it wasn't an accident, I didn't say that. It was carefully planned, down to the tiniest mechanical and emotional detail. But it was a mistake.
~ John Paxton
The reckoning of time was based on the movements of sun and stars, nature's timekeepers, which were familar and carefully observed.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
I would definitely love to do Hindi films but I'll choose films carefully.
~ Akhil Akkineni
playing "cautiously" is not the same as playing "smartly.
~ Scott McKain
The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.
~ Bertrand Russell
Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.
~ Markus Zusak
Did I envy a man who could afford to throw away an expensive piece of paper on a short note, or think him a fool? In any case, I carefully tore the clean end of the sheet from the written area and tucked it into my drawer to save for my own letters.
~ Ashley Gardner
Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.
~ Emma Thompson
I started watching movies more carefully, watching actors - the way they act, the way the movie is filmed, just as a hobby in a way, but also something to progress to maybe in the future.
~ Sergei Polunin
You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read Akron's text because it's too much, too much fantasy, and so I am busy with other stuff - it's funny, it's nice to hear that someone is studying that carefully and now I know a little bit more about that.
~ H. R. Giger
Jack handed the notebook and his pencil to the moon man. They looked tiny in his big hands. The moon man looked down at the message. He looked at the tiny pencil. Then he turned the notebook over. Jack and Annie watched as the moon man put the pencil to the paper. He was writing something very carefully.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
Dissection and surgical instruction, like meat-eating, require a carefully maintained set of illusions and denial.
~ Mary Roach
Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values—carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Timelessness again, the house like a secret temple as dust built up on things that were never meant to have dust on them - Clee's toothbrush and hairdryer and left-out-of-the-box CDs and deodorant on the bathroom window ledge. Ordinary things carefully kept in place because the last person to touch them would never put a cup down on the edge of the table again, or ever leave a book half-read.
~ Steven Hall