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Quotes About Recklessness

Old enough to know better, pissed enough not to care. (Jaden)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Ma non dovete adombrarvi: gli sciocchi fanno parte della vita come gli alberi e la terra, ma ricordate, siate attenta e prudente, perché gli sciocchi sono dannatamente pericolosi. Sapete la differenza tra uno sciocco e un malvagio, piccola principessa?" Questa volta Chiara si lasciò scappare un cenno di diniego. "I malvagi ci danneggiano per ricavarne un guadagno. Gli sciocchi ci danneggiano senza alcun profitto. E' possibile trattare con i malvagi, non con gli idioti.
~ Silvana de Mari
This is Nightside," said Deadboy. "We do ten impossible things before breakfast, just fora cheap thrill. Abandon all taboos, ye who enter here.
~ Simon R. Green
Our driver bumped the cars in front and behind us to make space, then we crossed on to the other side in our big 4x4 and started driving the wrong way up the motorway, dodging cars coming at us. I thought back to it afterwards and decided it had felt worryingly normal. I realised I'd been munching on a flapjack and Craig had been texting. I wondered if we were becoming just slightly too immune to risk.
~ Simon Reeve
Money was the root of all evil and recklessness was the root of all PTSD.
~ Simon Wood
A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
~ Sir Bernard Rowland Crick
You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.
~ Graham Greene
Ornon said, I have seen him jump across atriums four stories above the ground, a distance that would make your blood freeze, and I heard him once confess that he sometimes thinks the distance is beyond him. He always jumps, Your Majesty. The Thieves are not trained in self-preservation. I beg you would take my advice.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
I am a master of foolhardy plans.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
I've done everything. All of it. You think it, I've done it. All the things you never dared, all the things you dream about, all the things you were curious about and then forgot because you knew you never would. I did 'em, I did 'em yesterday while you were still in bed. What about you? When's it gonna be your turn?
~ Melvin Burgess
I've done everything. All of it. You think it, I've done it. All the things yo never dared, all the things you dream about, all the things you were curious about and then forgot because you knew you never would. I did'em, I did em yesterday while you were still in bed. What about you? When's it gonna be your turn?
~ Melvin Burgess
Perdido por perdido, bien jodido, el polvo más costoso de mi vida, se dijo. Se espantó de su propio chiste. Soy un monstruo, súbitamente un monstruo. La culpa había sido de la luna. Demasiado caliente, la luna del Chaco. Sobre todo, después de ocho años de ausencia. Perdido por perdido. Estaba jugado.
~ Mempo Giardinelli
His youth had been so long ago that he could remember nothing of it but he presumed, erroneously, that he had tasted the purple fruit, had broken hearts and hymens, had tosses flowers to ladies on balconies, had drunk champagne out of their shoes and generally been irresistible.
~ Mervyn Peake
Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify. It can also make them fun to be around.
~ Bear Grylls
Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify.
~ Bear Grylls
Play with the devil, Finan said, and you get burned.
~ Bernard Cornwell
It was madness. And, as Finan had said, sometimes madness works.
~ Bernard Cornwell
They have no idea we're here. And stupidity gets you killed.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Quoting her friend Tom Black on an amateur hunter's injury:) Lion, rifles -- and stupidity.
~ Beryl Markham
One night I was driving and so infatuated with dipping French fries into my milk shake that I drove right through a stop sign. The cop who pulled me over had no mercy.
~ Arielle Kebbel
It's fun to horse around with danger.
~ Sue Grafton
You are an impertinent wench! Do you not know the Black Lion eats three girls such as you each day afore dinner?" Oblivious to the staring people around them, she put a finger on his lower lip. "I do not find that a horrible way to die at all," she said gently.
~ Jude Deveraux
Men are mad.
~ Julia Quinn
he hit Sunrise Honey right across the face. She swerved the car into the bushes, jumped out, opened his door, yanked him upright, and then kicked in three of his ribs.
~ Eve Babitz