Quotes About Heedless

You were a bit careless

function—thoughtless, careless, and liquorish

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

The end of the world has come, and still nobody will listen.

I was running wild through the forest of magic, pushing brambles out of my way, heedless of scratches and dirt, paying no attention where I was going.

him at all. He ignored Valls's

take a lot, a lot of imprudent risks themselves and be blinded by the odds.

It would be truly foolish to let the decline of communism blind us to the long-term contradictions in a free market economy unrestrained by considerations of the environment and social justice, and driven by heedless consumerism, instant gratification, and the quick fix.

Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice.

I don't pay attention to him. I don't even ignore him.

There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.

Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others - he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life.

Who is a fool? He that rashly is carried hither and thither with every motion, that considereth nothing, regardeth nothing, nor suffereth himself to be corrected and warned of his evil doing; but headlong runneth as he began, forcing not whether he sink or swim, or what becometh of him; and who, as he knoweth not the word of God, so he passeth not on it.

Most people lived their lives like criminals: act first, worry about the consequences later.

horsemen ignored both the right and the left flanks

And when he went to bed and listened to the trains passing through that cheerless house in which lived several Russian lost shades, the whole of life seemed like a piece of film-making where heedless extras knew nothing of the picture in which they were taking part.

As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.

It was more reflex than thought. That was my most heedless, least reasonable self down there. It did not weigh risks and probabilities. It didn't deserve to be called decision making. I wasn't proud of it. Still, I felt hot shame and regret as I drove away.

That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.

We were reckless with the implications

They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed--run over, maimed, destroyed--but they continued to play anyhow.

If you never bothered to to look or see anything much you wouldn't be worrying' "I'd have to be very dumb to be like that" "Then be dumb, see nothing, hear nothing

To Him who has sense, a sign is enough For the heedless, however, a thousand expositions are not enough.

Just . . . massively, massively unwise.