Careless Quotes - Page 6

• The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is of course the desire of the master that his slaves shall be laborious; on the other hand it is the determination of the slave to lead as easy a life as he can. The master has the power of punishment on his side; the slave, on his, has invincible inclination, and a thousand expedients learned by long practice... Good natured though imperfect and slovenly obedience on one side, is purchased by good treatment on the other.

  William C. Bryant

  Determination, Dirty, Hard Work

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• The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Track, Enemy, Minutes

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills - neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action

  George MacDonald

  Faith, Ignorance, Knowing

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.12445, Delphi Classics

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• You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

  Martial

  Hands, Crystals, Faults

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• Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.

  Luke Ford

  Way, Opinion, Wince

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• Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Political, Important, Might

  "Of political correctness and referendums" by Marcus Brigstocke, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2005.

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• We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still. Lovers, farmers, and artists have one thing in common, at least - a fear of 'dry spells,' dormant periods in which we do no blooming, internal droughts only the waters of imagination and psychic release can civilize.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Artist, Rivers, Psychics

  Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

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• There are gems of wondrous brightness
  Ofttimes lying at our feet,
  And we pass them, walking thoughtless,
  Down the busy, crowded street.
  If we knew, our pace would slacken,
  We would step more oft with care,
  Lest our careless feet be treading
  To the earth some jewel rare.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Lying, Knowledge, Jewels

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• It is the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can; and if his emoluments are to be precisely the same, whether he does or does not perform some very laborious duty, it is certainly his interest, at least as interest is vulgarly understood, either to neglect it altogether, or, if he is subject to some authority which will not suffer him to do this, to perform it in as careless and slovenly a manner as that authority will permit.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Suffering, Doe

  Adam Smith (2007). “The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.494, Harriman House Limited

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• Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go-or got careless and crushed it.

  Joe Hill

  Depression, Butterfly, Hands

  Joe Hill (2013). “NOS4R2”, p.188, Hachette UK

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• Accurate and just reasoning is the only catholic remedy, fitted for all persons and all dispositions; and is alone able to subvert that abstruse philosophy and metaphysical jargon, which, being mixed up with popular superstition, renders it in a manner impenetrable to careless reasoners, and gives it the air of science and wisdom.

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Air, Giving

  David Hume (1854). “The Philosophical Works of David Hume: Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Editions Pub. by the Author”, p.9

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• They know the outward shows of this life present but of the next life are they careless. Have they not consider the heavens and the earth and all that is between them but for a serious end, and for a fixed term? But truly most men believe not that they shall meet their Lord.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Believe, Book, Men

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• A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the Divine Being is not only sinful, but it is also prima facie evidence of vulgar associations.

  Hosea Ballou

  Names, Use, Association

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• The ubiquity of the Divine presence is the only true support, and I am sometimes astonished how persons, who evidently do not possess that grand source of consolation, keep up their spirits under trials and difficulties. It must be owing to careless tempers and nerves of brass.

  Hannah More

  Ubiquity, Support, Nerves

  Hannah More (1860). “Letters of Hannah More to Zachary Macaulay, containing notices of Lord Macaulay's youth: Edited and arranged by Arthur Roberts”, p.9

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• There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Men, Anxious

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• Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.

  Ben Jonson

  Art, Lying, Sleep

  Ben Jonson (1985). “Ben Jonson”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers.

  John Keats

  Flower, Hair, Wind

  'To Autumn' (1820) st. 2

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• A good banker isn't careless with pennies; a good leader isn't sloppy about details.

  John Wooden

  Leader, Bankers, Details

  Source: www.expressionsofexcellence.com

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• If you attack the Clintons publicly, make sure all your friends know that you are not planning suicide, that you're not careless when you drive a car.

  Ann Coulter

  Suicide, Car, Planning

  "Ann Coulter Reacts After John Edwads Calls Her a "She-Devil". "Hannity & Colmes" with Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. August 23, 2007.

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• We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Real, Character, Men

  Maria Edgeworth “Castle Rackrent”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If Nature built by rule and square, Than man what wiser would she be? What wins us is her careless care, And sweet unpunctuality.

  Alfred Austin

  Sweet, Nature, Men

  Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”

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• Galvanized people can do careless things. It is in the extreme and emotion-laden moments that distance and coolness are most required. I am tempted to howl in rage. It is not my place to do so. My job is to try to dissect the event, place it in context and try to understand what has happened and why. From that, after the rage cools, plans for action can be made. Rage has its place, but actions must be taken with discipline and thought.

  George Friedman

  Jobs, Distance, Taken

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• The human race has today the means for annihilating itself--either in a fit of complete lunacy, i.e., in a big war...or by the careless handling of atomic technology, through a slow process of poisoning and of deterioration in its genetic structure.

  Max Born

  Peace, War, Mean

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• Even the good can become careless without the Lord's being there to chasten.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Being There, Lord

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• I like to think illegal downloads only do real damage to the endless amounts of careless pop music though.

  Ben Howard

  Real, Thinking, Damage

  Source: innerearmedia.wordpress.com

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