Quotes About Recklessness

Of course they were your friends, Locke. They were your very good friends. Because they're going to teach you that when you kill someone, there are consequences. It is one thing to kill in a duel, to kill in self-defense, to kill for vengeance. It is another thing entirely to kill simply because you are careless.

It is one thing to kill in a duel, to kill in self-defense, to kill for vengeance. It is another thing entirely to kill simply because you are careless.

Beyond stupid," John said. "You play with fire, you're going to get the horns, Quentin. Remember I said that." "How could I forget?

What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.

The words of the reckless pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. (Prov. 12:18 NIV)

He keeps this up, he's bound to be caught, she thought. And this time they'll dangle him for certain.

It took only seconds for me to make these discoveries, but even in that short time, my stomach nearly jumped through my mouth trying to reach the food.

Unfortunately, denial also means ignoring the possibility of peril.

You might well ask just what the hell he was thinking. The answer is, probably nothing at all.He'd probably say he was exercising his God-given right to stupidity.

But sometimes when you're too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness.

drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at all that he had left it

Helvétius's maxims: "It is worth being wise only so long as one can also be foolhardy.

He is drunk at least 22 hours of every 24 and never without one or two whores in company.")

You've called your carelessness love and made a virtue of irresponsibility.

It is shallow desires which make a young man bold

That's fine," he said. "Now ring that bloke of yours to tell him you're staying out all night, then have another drink. In fact, have six. It would please me no end to see you get hammered on Alicia's father's bill.

Stabbing is for suckers who want to die.

Bunny, Top and Cole kept themselves belted in and braced, because Lydia Rose drove like a maniac. "She's going to kill us all," yelled Cole. "Don't want to play the man card here," yelled Top, "but woman up." "'Woman up' is not a thing, you sexist freak.

Part of me wanted to run away from him screaming, Fire! A more reckless part was tempted to see how close I could get without... combusting.

Men who act under dishonest passions are like men riding fierce horses: they cannot stop when they will, and they ride to ruin.

I didn't ask why anybody would want to risk the electric two-step on the tracks because, as police, all three of us knew that there wasn't anything so stupid that somebody wouldn't try it sooner or later.

How many fools have looked forward to the adventure that killed them.

They felt at once profoundly numb and profoundly ecstatic to be young and inflicting optional damage on each other;

I just love having a buzz all the time, regardless of the consequences.