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Quotes About Careless

The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.
~ E.E. Cummings
Unsafe acts will keep you in stitches.
~ Anonymous
and was built into the shape of a balcony at the top, with insecure, irregular battlements, crumbling as if drawn by an anxious or careless child as they stood out, zigzag fashion, against the blue sky.
~ Franz Kafka
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.
~ Honore de Balzac
The only books I give up on are texts where the writer's attention is concentrated so heavily on narrative questions that his or her use of language becomes careless.
~ Anthony Doerr
At any rate those two, one the shadow of a shadow in the hall and the other a shadow also, an imitation of the ruthless man who'd stolen from the world with careless ease, both poised, caught in time.
~ Louise Erdrich
. . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 'twere a careless trifle.
~ William Shakespeare
A mediocre review or careless slight can no longer harm him, but heartbreak, real true heartbreak, can pierce his thin hide and bring out the same shade of blood as ever. How can so many things become a bore by middle age—philosophy, radicalism, and other fast foods—but heartbreak keeps its sting? Perhaps because he finds fresh sources for
~ Andrew Sean Greer
I felt like a fool. A rotten sitter. Kristy the Careless. Everyone in town was going to see Jackie with his cane. Of course they would ask what happened and they'd find out the truth. He'd been left unsupervised by his sitter in his own backyard. If there were such things as sitting licenses, mine would be revoked.
~ Ann M. Martin
It is hypocrisy alone   that leads men to be careless about themselves, [240] and haughtily to   despise others.
~ John Calvin
A selfish person cares nothing what anyone else says about his self-centric/own face-loving nature even when gets fully exposed,and continues to speak pompously & write pretentiously to remain shameless & hypocrite as always.
~ Anuj Somany
A shameless person cares less literally saying nothing about what the people speak about his/her selfishness and always more concern only about own external appearance and dress.
~ Anuj Somany
Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.
~ Earl Derr Biggers
A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
~ David Hume
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn! (Rhett Butler)
~ Margaret Mitchell
When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.
~ Richard Sibbes
Now a life like that, he figured, could make one tentative and fearful perhaps. Or it could make you remarkably strong, and what people called philosophical---and fiercely independent. Maybe it could make you careless of your own life, indifferent to danger, and determined to live exactly as you pleased.
~ Anne Rice
He's picked you because you are careless and flamboyant and vain. Oh, I don't say this to hurt you. Truly I don't. You long to be seen and approached and understood and to get into mischief, to stir everything up and see if it won't boil over and if God won't come down and grab you by
~ Anne Rice
I was careless, I was all too softened by human emotion. I was too greedy for love.
~ Anne Rice
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may findThee sitting careless on a granary floor,Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,Drows'd with the fume of poppies while thy hookSpares the next swath and all its twined flowers.
~ John Keats
He doesn't care if my trainers get wet because we're at the seaside and it doesn't matter at the seaside, nothing matters at the seaside.
~ John King
I see the new couple holding hands, smiling so carelessly at each other. I want to scream "Stop!" to them. I want to warn them what happens when you fall in love. You get hurt. It will take a while, A few months, or if you're really lucky a year. But love, it falters. It fails just like everything else, it inevitably breaks.
~ Elizabeth Heller
By the mistaken benevolence of deceased relatives both young men were placed out of reach of hunger, and so, meditating high achievements, idled their time pleasantly away, and revelled in the careless joys of a Bohemianism devoid of the sharp reasoning of adversity.
~ Arthur Machen
That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.
~ Arundhati