Quotes About Carelessness

A guerra, disse o adivinho, é uma espécie de serpente que matamos sem pisar a cabeça. Um pequeno descuido e eis que ela ressurge no escondido do capinzal.

Unknown to Oldfield, the best opportunity yet to arrest the Yorkshire Ripper was about to unfold, but it happened at the very time when the investigation was at its most dangerous, depressing and muddled phase, with carelessness piled upon misfortune piled upon incompetence.

He was right: not about her playing him, or about her laughing at him, but certainly about her carelessness, about her casual disregard for how he would feel if he found out, and about the stunning lack of depth it exposed in her character.

What kind of asshat!" Aliyev actually screamed aloud, "Makes a grenade crate! That's fucking! Flammable!

Cu neputin?? de spus de ce tr?iesc pe lume unii oameni, care m?nânc? pe apucate, beau pe apucate, dorm pe apucate È™i plodesc pe apucate, niciodat? cu un gând pentru ziua de mâine, niciodat? cu o strângere de inim? pentru ziua de ieri.

If you're careless and disorganized, you lose your ability to see things clearly.

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

Peace is dangerous because it encourages complacency and carelessness

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

What if this had been caused by your inattention?

But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn.

One day, when I'd expressed surprise at that feigned carelessness, he'd told me you had to 'approach things gently and quietly or they pull away,

One night at the Purveses', the table was set with a feast that hardened and grew cold because Jock's mother had tipped back so much gin she'd forgotten the cook had called us in long before. She listed in the darkening courtyard and finally leaned into a potted palm and closed her eyes. No one else seemed to notice or care.

If a man opens or digs a pit and fails to cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

He who keeps a commandment preserves his soul, but he who is careless in his ways will die.

But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.