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Quotes About Carefully

An unhappy woman with access to weed killer had to be watched carefully.
~ James Ruddick
As Meghan carried on whispering with excitement, Nelthorpe-Cowne interrupted, 'Do you know what you're doing? Do you know anything about him?' Meghan replied, 'I've googled Harry. I've gone deeply into his life.' Nelthorpe-Cowne was left in no doubt that Meghan had carefully researched every aspect of Harry and his past life. She understood precisely the man she was meeting:
~ Tom Bower
The Paddock was one of those medium-sized houses with a goodish bit of very tidy garden and a carefully rolled gravel drive curving past a shrubbery that looked as if it had just come back from the dry cleaner - the sort of house you take one look at and say to yourself, Somebody's aunt lives there.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
He thought of the meetings of a committee of which Berg was a member. He remembered how carefully and at what length everything relating to form and procedure was discussed at those meetings, and how sedulously and promptly all that related to the gist of the business was evaded.
~ Leo Tolstoy
We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.
~ Bruce Babbitt
Leaphorn had found that listening carefully to lies is sometimes very revealing of the truth.
~ Tony Hillerman
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements.
~ Unknown
I don't want to make fictional characters who are perfect - that's a vanilla situation - but the fact is you are allowed to more carefully select and curate what it is you're going to explore.
~ Debra Granik
So I spent my birthday alone. I went out to where I go with BOB. It was light out, and everything seemed like an awful dream, until I saw a piece of rope lying at the back of the base of his favorite tree. I got a chill, but forced it away. I tried to look carefully at the tree, to find something that would explain why he picked this place, this tree. There was nothing. I made sure I was alone before I did what I had planned.
~ Jennifer Lynch
The church is near, but the way is icy, The tavern is far, but I will walk carefully.
~ Unknown
Our attachments are our temple, what we worship, no? What we give ourselves to, what we invest with faith." Steeply made motions of weary familiarity. "Herrrrrre we go." Marathe ignored this. "Are we not all of us fanatics? I say only what you of the USA only pretend you do not know. Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care.
~ David Foster Wallace
In a flood the water goes everywhere, you don't have to think about it. In a drought, if you want water, you have to direct it carefully along each inch of its path.
~ Zadie Smith
Tolkien preserved this postcard carefully, and long afterwards he wrote on the paper cover in which he kept it: 'Origin of Gandalf'.
~ Humphrey Carpenter
That's the alchemy of adjectives: boiling down an excess of ideas to the essence of a thing. We want the words to be precise and evocative. If we pick our adjectives carefully, any description can surprise.
~ Constance Hale
Hiccup followed him carefully ... and fell over again. "BRAVO!" clapped Alvin, to Hiccup's surprise. "But I fell over again" said Hiccup. "But with such STYLE," said Alvin. "You can't teach that, it's in the blood.
~ Cressida Cowell
There's always music," he replied, "if you listen carefully enough.
~ Cynthia Leitich Smith
In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office.
~ Richard V. Allen
Like any collection of family photographs, it was a random selection that told only fragments of a story. The real tale would be revealed by the pictures that were missing or never even taken at all, not the ones that had been so carefully framed or packed away neatly in an envelope.
~ Unknown
Life is just a book of chapters written by God which you have to read very carefully before it finishes.
~ Unknown
I, for my part, am always glad that I have read the Bible more carefully than many people do nowadays, just because it gives me some peace of mind to know that there used to be such lofty ideals.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
While I held the letter in my hand and as carefully as I could--and as Coleman would have me do--appraised the choice of words and their linear deployment as if they'd been composed not by Delphine Roux but by Emily Dickinson...
~ Philip Roth
A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love? he demanded. No, I thought. I won't. I will not. But I did. Very carefully, I replied, giggling helplessly. So now we know just how old that one is, I thought.
~ Diana Gabaldon