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Quotes About Imprudent

For me as an individual, it's important that I have a career as a role model for my children, that I earn my own money, and I spend it prudently and imprudently.
~ Trinny Woodall
Nothing could have been more imprudent or more natural than this reply. It reflected the ecstasy inspired by great crises.
~ Machado de Assis
But the weak who constantly arouse the pity of humanitarians and philanthropists are the shiftless, the imprudent, the negligent, the impractical, and the inefficient, or they are the idle, the intemperate, the extravagant, and the vicious. Now
~ William Graham Sumner
The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
I am imprudent, I am sick, I have a soul, I am a microbe. But isn't blooming a sickness? Doesn't it hurt when a bud splits open?
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Womankind is imprudent and soft or flexible. Imprudent because she cannot consider with wisdom and reason the things she hears and sees; and soft she is because she is easily bowed. —JOHN CHRYSOSTOM (c. 347–407)
~ Laurie R. King
He was very bold and very imprudent. He was famous for the first and known for the second.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
There was a midsummer restlessness abroad—early August with imprudent loves and impulsive crimes.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
There was a midsummer restlessness abroad--early August with imprudent loves and impulsive crimes. With little more to expect from summer, one tried anxiously to live in the present--or, if there was no present, to invent one.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Supposez que vous tombiez un jour sur quelqu'un d'aussi imprudent que vous? — J'espère que ça n'arrivera pas. Je déteste les imprudents. C'est pour ça que vous me plaisez.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I was saying to him only yesterday: 'You are imprudent, M. le Comte; for when you go to Auteuil and take your servants the house is left unprotected.' 'Well,' said he, 'what next?' 'Well, next, someday you will be robbed. What did he say? He quietly said: 'What do I care if I am?
~ Alexandre Dumas
if the Supreme Court is ever composed of imprudent men or bad citizens, the Union may be plunged into anarchy or civil war.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
INEXPEDIENT, adj. Not calculated to advance one's interests.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Nothing could have been more imprudent or more natural than this reply. It reflected the ecstasy inspired by great crises.
~ Machado de Assis
You say that your fare told you that he was a detective? Yes, he did. When did he say this? When he left me. Did he say anything more? He mentioned his name. Holmes cast a swift glance of triumph at me. Oh, he mentioned his name, did he? That was imprudent. What was the name that he mentioned? "His name, said the cabman, was Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
You were a bit careless
~ Erin Hunter
offend the Church was unwise, to mock old courtiers and women imprudent, to insult Catherine foolish and to outrage the Guards simply insane – to do all of these was suicidal. Frederick
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
If banks anticipate government will come to the rescue should the credit market go badly awry, they may make loans that would otherwise be imprudent, e.g. subprime loans with little prospect of repayment.
~ Eric Maskin
Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion from our children.
~ Steven Rattner
take a lot, a lot of imprudent risks themselves and be blinded by the odds.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
People go to business school to learn how to do well while ensuring their survival—but what the economy, as a collective, wants them to do is to not survive, rather to take a lot, a lot of imprudent risks themselves and be blinded by the odds. Their respective industries improve from failure to failure
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Love becomes imprudent only when it is impatient to enjoy; but when it is a matter of procuring the return of a happiness to which a baleful combination of circumstances has raised impediments, love sees and foresees all that the most subtle perspicacity can discover.
~ Giacomo Casanova
He said that journeys involving the company of the dead were notorious for their difficulty but that in truth every journey was so accompanied. He said that in his opinion it was imprudent to suppose that the dead have no power to act in the world, for their power is great and their influence often most weighty with just those who suspect it least.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certain silly things cease to be silly if done by sensible people in an imprudent way.
~ Jane Austen