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Quotes About Carelessness

I'll make a horrible housewife. It's not like I'm disgusting, but I'm pretty bad about having a drink or eating something and then leaving the plate and rushing to go.
~ Camilla Luddington
No! Amy said. Dan, you're lucky it was only concussive. You could've wiped out the whole Holt family. And that would've been bad because...?
~ Rick Riordan
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
~ William Safire
Celerity is never more admir'dThan by the negligent.
~ William Shakespeare
She'd be one of those parents who left a kid behind at a rest stop, driving for miles before she noticed. We'd hear about her on the evening news.
~ Deb Caletti
The banal drawling frowning speech of men who don't care about what they're doing. Until forced to. Who all unawares destroy their own warrens, who poison their own food, convinced of righteousness.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
She stubbed out the butt on her clipboard, one marked by a variety of small black burn spots, and flicked it away heedlessly—beaning her production assistant in the side of the head in the process.
~ Elizabeth Bevarly
Aviation is not in itself inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than even the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect.
~ Alfred Gilmer Lamplugh
Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression.
~ James E. Faust
I think there's a lot of catastrophe in this world and a lot of cruelty and a lot of carelessness.
~ Adrien Brody
A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.
~ Ben Jonson
A poisonous snake is not dangerous, not any more than a loaded gun is dangerous—in each case, if you handle it properly. The thing that made that coral snake dangerous was that I hadn't known what it was, what it could do. If, in my ignorance, I had handled it carelessly, it would have killed me as casually and as innocently as a kitten scratches.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Mereka yang tidak paham dahsyatnya api akan mengobarkannya dengan sembrono. Mereka yang tidak paham akan energi cinta akan meledakkannya dengan sia-sia.
~ Dee Lestari
I could've died because you had to tie your shoelace?
~ Derek Landy
Andy? Really, who gives a shit?
~ Jennifer Lopez
Jameson had a habit of tossing out words that should matter like they didn't at all.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
You get to thinking of a place as yours, after a while, and you grit your teeth over the Red Bull cans and Mountain Dew bottles and takeout chicken bones scattered through one of the prettiest places on earth. But while any half-wit can toss their trash out into a country road, it takes a rarefied, soulless son of a bitch to slink out here to throw away a good dog. He
~ Rick Bragg
Through the distorted lens of the thwarted intent to get it right, everything around these people begins to seem haphazard and careless. To add insult to injury, people seem to address these concerns with horrifyingly fuzzy words, like pretty much, and roughly, and probably. When sufficient intensity is reached, the behavior becomes increasingly pessimistic and perfectionistic. The Whiner, the No Person, the Judge, and the Nothing Person, all exemplify this kind of behavior.
~ Rick Brinkman
The damage caused by carelessness is harmful to the entire firearms community in North America. It harms the twenty-five million hunters, competitors, and recreational shooters. It harms the fifteen million concealed-carry permit holders. It harms the 325 million citizens of the United States who believe in and honor our rights as citizens.
~ Rick Sapp
Grace sat up, too frightened to make a sound, and even Laura was horrified, for the stool lay in two pieces. Then Pa laughed. "Never mind, Grace," he said. "You only unscrewed it all the way. But," he said sternly, "you stay off this stool, after this.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Look at this limp cravet. And the sad state of those cuffs. I can hardly bring myself to look upon them.
~ Baroness Orczy
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
~ Henry David Thoreau
What happens is never unpredictable: there are always breaches, carelessness, incompetence, omissions, which have not prevented the occurrence.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
She won't think anything about it.
~ Abraham Lincoln