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Quotes About Careless

Enjoy a bounty if one falls in your lap. Savor it if it was lost by a careless man.
~ Kresley Cole
They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold.
~ Augustus William Hare
A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.
~ Gene Tierney
Will the wise man refuse to engage with such a person, and avoid all dialogue and examination? [26] But of all people he is supposed to be most adept in argument, expert in question and answer, and proof against sophisms and deceit. [27] Or will he engage with him but without caring whether he argues in a confused or careless manner? In that case how then will he be the sort of man we imagine him to be?
~ Epictetus
Bir ÅŸehirden geriye, yar? sarhoÅŸ bir ÅŸairin onun üzerinde dolaÅŸan umursamaz bak??lar?ndan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey kalmaz.
~ Amin Maalouf
It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly.
~ Andrew Davidson
I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars.
~ Tim Robbins
The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord's Supper. I lay it down as a simple matter of fact that no one who is careless about such things must ever expect to make much progress in sanctification.
~ J. C. Ryle
Wayne was one of the worst drivers Finn had ever met. The bus nearly sideswiped two cars, then veered left and scraped its wheels against the curb, before smashing back down the roadway.
~ Ridley Pearson
Word gets around." "You mean they communicate?" A third voice. "You bet they communicate. And the next time they do come, you can be sure they'll case the place carefully. We were lucky. These rats hadn't been bothered in years. They'd grown careless.
~ Robert C. O'Brien
A sword is dangerous to the man at the point, but not to the man at the hilt. Unless the man holding the sword is a fool, or careless, or unskilled, in which case it i twice as dangerous to him as to anyone else.
~ Robert Jordan
If you get careless or go romanticizing scientific information, giving it a flourish here and there, Nature will soon make a complete fool out of you.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
If you get careless or go romanticizing scientific information, giving it a flourish here and there, Nature will soon make a complete fool out of you. It does it often enough anyway even when you don't give it opportunities.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
Too much fear will paralyze you, but too little fear will make you careless.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Our teachers need a snow day. They look unusually pale. The men aren't shaving carefully and the women never remove their boots. They suffer some sort of teacherflu. Their noses drip, their eyes are rimmed with red. They come to school long enough to infect the staff room then go home sick when the sub shows up.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
It is the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can; and if his emoluments are to be precisely the same, whether he does or does not perform some very laborious duty, it is certainly his interest, at least as interest is vulgarly understood, either to neglect it altogether, or, if he is subject to some authority which will not suffer him to do this, to perform it in as careless and slovenly a manner as that authority will permit.
~ Adam Smith
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
~ Victor Hugo
I felt like a child, ebullient and careless, the intoxication of the new regime working like wine in me.
~ Erik Larson
Lots of lawyers don't like circumstantial evidence. I do. I've never had any quarrel with the evidence of circumstances. My quarrel is with the habit of giving events the obvious, careless interpretation. I dislike sloppy thinking.
~ Erle Stanley Gardner
If you ask me, this younger generation is altogether too careless about their morals.
~ Erle Stanley Gardner
I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense, but just enough to be careless. For God's sake, I said, yes, don't you? Oh, how charmingly you get angry, he said. I wish I had that faculty.
~ Ernest Hemingway
It was the sloppy thinking, the laziness which irritated him most.
~ Ann Cleeves
I'm horrible to live with. I don't clean. My clothes end up wherever I take them off. I forget to flush the toilet.
~ Megan Fox
We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
~ Blaise Pascal