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Quotes About Careful

Garnet was very happy. She was so happy, for no especial reason, that she felt as if she must move carefully so she wouldn't jar or shake the feeling of happiness.
~ Elizabeth Enright
Suddenly Taryn was furious. 'Why the hell are you always so careful?' 'What else should I be? Most of the good in the world is remedial. It's fixing things and caring for people. Taking care.
~ Elizabeth Knox
Awful to think she was a disapproving mother. Awful to wonder—had she always frightened Amy? Is that why the girl had grown up so fearful, always ducking her head? It was bewildering to Isabelle. Bewildering that you could harm a child without even knowing, thinking all the while you were being careful, conscientious. But it was a terrible feeling.
~ Elizabeth Strout
We know the prodigality of Nature. How many acorns are scattered for one that grows to an oak? And need she be more careful of her stars than of her acorns? If indeed she has no grander aim than to provide a home for her greatest experiment, Man, it would be just like her methods to scatter a million stars whereof one might haply achieve her purpose.
~ Arthur Stanley Eddington
Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a book.
~ Joshua Foer
I have to be careful. My readers are very detail-oriented, and if I make a mistake they'll call me on it.
~ Rick Riordan
I made contours and all that, but in real life, you have to be very careful with that because you can go out in the street and look terrible. All those girls who show how to do contour, they do it quite well, but they're like makeup artists. They're in artificial light.
~ Francois Nars
I'm very careful. I think about everything. Some people go, 'Oh, I went out and bought something and didn't realise how much it was,' but there's no such thing with me. I always think about the future because I never want to go backwards.
~ Olga Kurylenko
I think you've got to be careful with gore. Different genres need different things.
~ Jed Mercurio
If you analyze my career graph, you will see that I'm slow at choosing projects.
~ Radhika Pandit
I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.
~ Namie Amuro
When do we c-c-come and rescue you?' 'If I'm not back by nightfall, come and take a very careful look,' said Anya. 'But I don't expect to need rescuing. I'm not that kind of princess.
~ Garth Nix
I will be careful to live a blameless life — when will you come to help me? I will lead a life of integrity in my own home. —Psalm 101:2
~ Gary Chapman
If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'
~ Mal Peet
I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.
~ Nicholas Kristof
One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
There's a rumour going 'round that if you amass a certain number of penalty points on your driving licence, the authorities will make you take your test again! Now, if ever there was an incentive to drive carefully, they could not have threatened a more terrifying ordeal.
~ Jasper Carrott
We had an incident back in 2001 where our drummer threw out a drumstick into the crowd and it hit someone in the eye and they were going to sue us. You just always have to be really careful with that kind of stuff.
~ Wayne Static
I'm not cheap, I'm thrifty.
~ Kym Whitley
I'm actually a survivor of throat cancer so I'm very, very careful with my voice.
~ Michael Buffer
I have an orthopedic pillow that's made out of a sponge material. I have a plate in my throat, and I have to be careful or I could end up with a bad neck in the morning. That pillow is a must everywhere I go.
~ Lee Trevino
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
~ Nicolaus Copernicus
About this same time Abbe Beauchamp, vicar-general at Baghdad and correspondent of the Academy of Science, was making careful and accurate observations
~ Samuel Noah Kramer
The poems ... are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build, some careful analog that completed the seeing. ... All I have been left is the exhausting habit of trying to tack up the slack in my life with words.
~ Samuel R. Delany