Quotes About Carelessness

I lost dozens of pairs of expensive glasses because I'd put them down and then not be able to find them again.

The scar on my forehead is from running through a plate-glass panel when I was 15. I had 27 stitches, which took two hours.

Some artists just ruin their voices because they don't know any better.

You know, I have dropped three expensive pens on the nib. And it just makes you cry when it happens.

Another thing I don't want on my tombstone," Shane said. You have others?" Claire asked. He held up one finger. "I thought it wasn't loaded," Shane said. Second finger. "Hand me a match so I can check the gas tank." Third finger. "Killed over ice cream. Basically, any death that requires me to be stupid first.

I lose things all the time. I once left my mother's ashes at a bus stop!

I like sunglasses, the bigger the better, but I lose about a pair a week.

I don't spend a bunch of money on jewelry or sunglasses, because I lose them a lot.

Maybe you took two pills and forgot and took two more, and forgot again and took two more, and were so dopy you kept right on until you had thirty or forty of them in you.

That night after supper, Jimmy and I used up a whole jar of Noxzema. We had sunburned faces, necks and ears. Our ears hurt more than anything. "Why didn't you use suntan lotion?" Mom asked. "I never burn," Jimmy said. "Famous last words," Grandma said.

The recognition of his carelessness filled Mr. Lecky with fear and anger. In the dusk his eerie heart could anticipate the hours of terror which he had laid up for himself. Sounds, real or imaginary, the silences and secrets of the night, the working of his own mind, skilled in cruel illusion and rich in evil fancy, would find him without recourse.

This teaching cannot be used to justify moral carelessness, however, "for it is impossible for those who are engrafted into Christ by true faith not to bring forth the fruit of gratitude."24

People die, sure . . . but it's heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness.

She gave up combing her hair, which the salt air had reduced to a kind of scrim of brown hessian, and, lying down, proceeded to keep her fingernails short in the way Kate admired least. Then she overslept.

He turned it over in his hands with a shrug and tossed it aside carelessly, but not so carelessly that it didn't land on something soft

But it was the chance carelessness of it which particularly appealed to Dirk because words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.

After all, the stupidest child can set a house on fire quite easily.

If you people only knew how fatally easy it is to poison someone by mistake, you wouldn't joke about it.

If you people only knew how fatally easy it is to poison someone by mistake, you wouldn't joke about it." -- Cynthia Murdoch

Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis...

The rowdy gang of singers who sat at the scattered tables saw Arthur walk unsteadily to the head of the stairs, and though they must have all known that he was dead drunk, and seen the danger he would soon be in, no one attempted to talk to him and lead him back to his seat. With eleven pints of beer and seven small gins playing hide-and-seek inside his stomach, he fell from the top-most stair to the bottom.

You didn't weld it shut or anything like that?" "Yes, stupid me, I forgot.

If you expect me to buy something where all I can sense is carelessness, actually I think that is personally offensive.

I once bought an ill-advised half cashmere, half camel hair jumper for £800, then ruined it by spilling a pint of Guinness all over it.