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Quotes About Carelessness

All the world's misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.
~ Michael Ende
Cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it's a short way from not knowing who's at the other end of your food chain to not caring - to the carelessness of both producers and consumers.
~ Michael Pollan
You shouldn't leave your crayon on other people's beds where it can get sat on.
~ Beverly Cleary
In 1755, some seventy years after the last dodo's death, the director of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford decided that the institution's stuffed dodo was becoming unpleasantly musty and ordered it tossed on a bonfire. This was a surprising decision as it was by this time the only dodo in existence, stuffed or otherwise. A passing employee, aghast, tried to rescue the bird but could save only its head and part of one limb.
~ Bill Bryson
Our carelessness is all the more alarming since the discovery that many other ailments may be bacterial in origin. The process of discovery began in 1983 when Barry Marshall, a doctor in Perth, Western Australia, found that many stomach cancers and most stomach ulcers are caused by a bacterium called Helicobacter pylori.
~ Bill Bryson
But Pauline would not take advice, She lit a match, it was so nice! It crackled so, it burned so clear,— Exactly like the picture here She jumped for joy and ran about, And was too pleased to put it out. Now see! Oh see! What a dreadful thing The fire has caught her apron-string; Her apron burns, her arms, her hair; She burns all over, everywhere.
~ Bill Bryson
We run carelessly over the precipice after having put something in front of us to prevent us seeing it.
~ Blaise Pascal
Detrás de la máscara de la libertad se esconde frecuentemente la dejadez, el deseo de no implicarse.
~ Susanna Tamaro
Everyone has regrets. Some are just more life changing than others, and some go beyond a single moment of carelessness. Some regrets are born out over a period of months, or even years of misbehavior, because you didn't have enough self-awareness or life experience to recognize the error you were making at the time.
~ Julianne MacLean
Cuando los cronopios cantan sus canciones preferidas, se entusiasman de tal manera que con frecuencia se dejan atropellar por camiones y ciclistas, se caen por la ventana, y pierden lo que llevaban en los bolsillos y hasta la cuenta de los días.
~ Julio Cortazar
A veces una es tan descuidada —dijo tímidamente Clara—. Cree que lleva todo, y siempre olvida algo.
~ Julio Cortazar
Me? Never in life!' said Smith, giving them his familiar beam of amiability: only now with a ragged carelessness, a desultory approximation, like a man who briefly raises a mask on a stick to his face but cannot be bothered to line up the eye holes. Septimus and Hendrick glanced at each other involuntarily, to share the dismay that each for different reasons was feeling.
~ Francis Spufford
For instance, when childproof lids on medicine bottles were introduced, it led to a significant increase in the number of child poisonings because parents became less careful about keeping the bottles away from their children.
~ Frans Johansson
He avoided stepping on the plants—though he wasn't sure why he bothered. The crops hardly seemed worth the effort. Wan, with wilted brown leaves, the plants seemed as depressed as the people who tended them.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
~ Henry David Thoreau
True devotion and humility is when you carelessly allow yourself to fall in love with things you consider will make you look inferior, which in essence, makes you superior.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
A shithead's a guy who sees a pile of shit on the ground, knows it's shit, but steps in it anyway. Go play with your fucking shark, shithead.
~ Steve Alten
I fell off a wall in Cockermouth when I was 18. The slate on the top of the wall was loose and I tried to jump up and sit on it. I ended up falling backwards and the tile ended up falling back onto my hand.
~ Ben Stokes
Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
B?i trong th? giá»›i này, chuy?n gì cÅ©ng ???c tha th? trước nên, cách ??y vô tâm, ng??i ta s?n sàng cho phép chúng x?y ra.
~ Milan Kundera
Adamant, Doren said proudly, handing over the shield. We fished it out of the tar pit where we found the shirt of mail. Probably all belonged to the same careless adventurer, Newel speculated. Too much money, not enough talent.
~ Brandon Mull
Once an object escapes, you have to assume that another class or thread may, maliciously or carelessly, misuse it. This is a compelling reason to use encapsulation: it makes it practical to analyze programs for correctness and harder to violate design constraints accidentally.
~ Brian Goetz
A comédia representa uma ameaça para o poder soberano não só por causa do seu pendor anárquico, mas também por fazer pouco de questões tão importantes como o sofrimento e a morte, diminuindo assim a força de algumas das sanções judiciais que as classes governantes tendem a ter na manga. Ela pode fomentar uma despreocupação temerária que afrouxa o poder da autoridade.
~ Terry Eagleton
She also loved beautiful things, and seems to have embraced early a philosophy penned by the writer Toni Cade Bambara: "Beauty is care, just as ugly is carelessness.
~ Bridgett M. Davis