Quotes About Recklessness

It looked like I'd sold my pottage for a mess of afterbirth, as the saying is. I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped on.

A young woman with long hair and a short white halter walks through the casino at the Riviera in Las Vegas at one in the morning. It was precisely at this moment that made play it as it lays begin to tell itself to me.

We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.

Childhood is like being drunk. Everyone remembers what you did, except you.

Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice; Pull down your pants, and slide on the ice.

Looking down on it from the helicopter, with a bottle of Jack in my left hand, a bag of pills in my right hand, and a blond head bobbing up and doen in my lap, I felt like the king of the world.

Just enough for a twelve-pack of beer, a pack of smokes, and a Bic lighter. Not exactly the breakfast of champions, but the perfect recipe for a man who is speedily losing his shit.

Being a repo man requires what Milt calls "nerves of stupidity":

There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better.

Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.

You can talk any redneck into a challenge. That's why so many rednecks die in strange ways.

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

You know what I like about you? You have no sense. You sit here in my house, you can barely hold a spoon, and you're telling me 'no'. You'd pull on Death's whiskers if you could reach them.

it is easier to unleash evil than call it back again. Any fool can blow up a wind, but who can know where it will blow or when it will stop?

Courage, for example, when not based on forethought, is mere recklessness; when a man is thoughtlessly confident, he gets hurt; but when he is mindful of what he does, things go well.

but they knew no better than to fortify their product with highly toxic oil of wormwood. Two of the kids had died after sampling their own product. The other two only suffered massive brain damage.

Eve: We nearly got killed over ice cream. Shane: Another thing I don't want on my tombstone. Claire: You have others? Shane: *first finger* I thought it wasn't loaded. *second finger* Hand me a match so I can check the gas tank. *third finger* Killed over ice cream.

Myrnin, drive carefully. Understand? Of course. He didn't.

Hey," he said softly. He moved closer to the bars, pressing his face between them. "I always said you were jailbait, but this is ridiculous.

A species that can blind itself to truth, that can plunge so enthusiastically along roads that lead nowhere but to tragedy, is sometimes amusing in its recklessness...

He doesn't wear gloves and won't bother to wipe down any surfaces prior to leaving, for

That was when you discovered she'd recently begun using PCP—what's sometimes called 'angel dust' on the street.

Brave' covers everything from complete insanity and bloody disregard of other people's lives - generals tend to go in for that sort - to drunkenness, foolhardiness, and outright idiocy - to the sort of thing that will make a man sweat and tremble and throw up . . . and go and do what he thinks he has to do anyway.

I was young and dumb back in the '90s, but I had a lot of fun.