Quotes About Careless

Galvanized people can do careless things. It is in the extreme and emotion-laden moments that distance and coolness are most required. I am tempted to howl in rage. It is not my place to do so. My job is to try to dissect the event, place it in context and try to understand what has happened and why. From that, after the rage cools, plans for action can be made. Rage has its place, but actions must be taken with discipline and thought.

The Careless Society: Community and Its Counterfeits, sociologist John McKnight

Having a great phase of reading Dickens – gosh he is good – though so careless. But so beautifully funny – as well as other things. Oh to achieve the purely funny! Where does it reside?

The wife of a careless man is almost a widow.

Grief can make a man careless

It seems very clear to me that we, in the West, cannot afford to continue assuming propriety over the world's resources in a careless, greedy way without paying for it - not only with the lives of our loved ones, but also with our souls.

I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans.

I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired.

I think I've almost killed myself 1,000 times eating some sandwich as fast as I possibly could and almost choking. It's a miracle that I'm still alive.

I've been in situations where if I'd been careless I could have been missing some fingers or a hand or something like that, or a very, very bad bleed or whatever.

It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire

and their judgment was based more upon blind wishing than upon any sound prediction; for it is a habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire.

How careless of me! By which she meant that she had deduced that he had found [them] in his pocket and pitied him for needing to be forever in the right.

The decision he would make would be extremely important but the way he made the decision would be careless, haphazard, and uniformed.

Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.

Relevance, Wilde once explained, was a careless habit that should not be over-indulged.

in some sense, she ignored her physical self, as if her body were merely something impersonal vehicle for moving around in. She seemed not to notice or care much what she wore or what she looked like.

but it didn't make up for the indignity inflicted by the careless arrogance of the young.

A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly unless you want to hurt the giver.

I was getting drunk and didn't care; everything was fine

He had no idea of the impression he was making and cared less...He was finally an Angel, as I always knew he would become; but like any Angel he still had rages and furies...

Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.

the inevitable and irrevocable consequences of their quiet cruelty. They were just kids, just girls then. They didn't understand that a single act of careless unkindness would have repercussions long after

You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter. You are the best thing that's ever been mine.