Quotes About Recklessness

Recklessness and freedom - how did they become a cocktail?

He wasn't happy unless he was going so fast that one misstep would send him riding shotgun in heaven.

She had never seen an adult cry like that, with such an animal sound. Recklessly. As if there were nothing more to be lost. For years afterward, she would sometimes wake in the night, heart thumping, thinking she'd heard that agonized cry again.

If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic. If he is reckless, they will not only be reckless likewise, but also eat into his works. Besides, a reckless king will easily fall into the hands of his enemies. Hence the king shall ever be wakeful.

One afternoon a bunch of us went downtown to sell our blood for $10 a pint to get some more money to keep drinking shots and beer. On the way back we saw a sign for a carnival. It said that if you could last three rounds with a kangaroo you'd win $100. That was a better deal than the blood money we had just made. So off we went to the carnival. They

Drunkenness - that fierce rage for the slow, sure poison, that oversteps every other consideration; that casts aside wife, children, friends, happiness, and station; and hurries its victims madly on to degradation and death.

Recklessness is a species of crime...

Overnight our place was busting its seams with idiotics. Anything went, and every fool thing you might think of under the influence of hashish or a hangover went big. We were awash with pretty women, clowns, and storytellers who couldn't write. We made a million dollars so fast my fingers ached from trying to count.

Galones de sangre derramada para que unos spring breakers en Wisconsin o en Nebraska se dieran pasones de cocaína y se pusieran turulatos con la mota. Risa y risa los pinches escuincles gringos y de este lado puro valle de lágrimas. Deberían darles una escoba y un recogedor para que vinieran a levantar el tiradero de cadáveres.

We feel immortal when we are young. Or maybe we just don't care that much about death yet?

She was walking through the streets at midnight because she had a man to meet, she was carrying a gun because she was going to kill him, and she was wearing high heels because she hadn't thought it through.

Feynman—mystifyingly brilliant at calculating, strangely ignorant of the literature, passionate about physics, reckless about proof—had for once overestimated his ability to charm and persuade these great physicists.

Sometimes I'll make a stupid decision because I thought I was invincible.

He doesn't know what he's saying. Taking a little more than is good for him. Absinthe, the greeneyed monster. I know him. He's a gentleman, a poet. It's alright.

I no longer care that my time on earth is coming to an end. What better way than in hot blood? Would you rather meet the grim reaper at Roncevaux or between bedsheets stiff with your own fluids?

He ain't dead. They say just his ear's shot off." "That don't sound like me. It ain't smart to shoot a man's ear off. A man ain't got but two.

I've known Hillary Clinton for a long time. She's trustworthy. She's ready from Day One to assume the office of presidency in the United States. She's qualified and she's ready as compared to, I think, Donald Trump, who has shown his recklessness, and dangerous statements that he's made.

I have no patience with women who measure and weigh their love like a country doctor dispensing capsules. If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

To his credit, he knew this was a terrible idea. To his discredit, he was doing it anyway.

It was a great place to run red lights, which I count as a fine recreational activity.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

What could go wrong... Doing some stupid impulsive thing that caused the death of drowthers was practically a family tradition.

An intelligent lady, a little too mature for recklessness, a little too young for caution.

Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman.