Quotes About Carelessness

I lose my wallet all the time, and I break my phone all the time.

Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.

They're free because they don't know any, better. So they can just run around and do whatever, and do whatever, and most of the time they don't get caught.

I knocked stuff out of the medicine cabinet. Things rolled into the sink. 'Where's the aspirin?' I said. I knocked down more things. I didn't care. 'Goddamn it,' I said. Things kept falling.

You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell.

We are careless of that which is near us, and follow that which is afar off, to which we will travel and sail beyond the seas.

Such power, and carried with such careless grace. How that must burden him.

People just dump their trash here and don't even care about who has to pick it up. Like they think the trash fairy's gonna do it or something.

That was how you lost people, a little carelessness and they just slipped through your fingers.

There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.

There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.

Each of us, having received several hundred dollars, we passed the time gloriously, spending our money freely - never thinking that our lives were risked gaining it.

You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.

A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

I have forgotten my umbrella.

This casual neglect, a lack of care and worry, helped him feel easy in this quiet and leisurely part of the city.

Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.

There are] lies of two varieties. There is the truly bad, "I know that what I am saying is untrue, but it suits my agenda to say it anyway" kind. There is the less bad, "I came upon information I liked or found persuasive, and repeated it before verifying it was true" kind. The latter is not about willful dishonesty, just carelessness. But since both varieties promulgate misinformation, both kinds are harmful.

Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from...the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.

Kids, they are always hurting themselves. It's like, "Quick, get me to casualty quick!" while your doing something important like sitting down picking your ear.

One must allow that a certain amount of carelessness in one's nature often accomplishes what the will is incapable of doing

the stoic's carelessness of material things, combined with the epicurean's pleasure in them.

The Risorgimento hymn returned to his mind and with it the recognition of all that Italy had once been and which, even now, amid the decadence and carelessness, still remained tragically magnificent.

When I was a kid, we went to St. Augustine, Fla., and I was lying on the couch one night with a Q-tip, cleaning my ear out after I'd taken a shower. I hit my arm on something, jabbed the Q-tip through my ear drum, busted my ear drum and couldn't get back in the water the rest of the time we were there.