Careless Quotes - Page 5

• But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Land, Rivers

  Herman Melville (1852). “Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities”, p.145

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• If the Christian church is to move responsibly towards the future, it must restore or renew its ties with its past. Contemporary Catholic and Protestant radicals want to claim that Christianity means whatever Christian today happen to believe and practice, be it pantheism, unitarianism, or sodomy. The Christian faith has suffered immeasurable harm because of the tendency of people to use the word Christian in a careless and non-historical way. Nothing in this argument would preclude liberal Protestants and Catholics from developing and practicing any religion they like.

  Ronald H. Nash

  Christian, Believe, Moving

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• How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Book, Men, Ideas

  "Coningsby". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Book VII, Ch. 2, 1844.

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• No, my dear, I'm not in love with you, no more than you are with me, and if I were, you would be the last person I'd ever tell. God help the man who ever really loves you. You'd break his heart, my darling, cruel, destructive little cat who is so careless and confident she doesn't even trouble to sheathe her claws.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Love You, Heart, Cat

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.544, Hamilton Books

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• Margaret found that the indifferent, careless conversations of one who, however kind, was not too warm and anxious a sympathizer, did her good.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Kind, Found, Conversation

  Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1855). “North and South”, p.364

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• I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don't necessarily want them to be there

  Jodi Picoult

  Daughter, Children, Son

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• How can you come to understand your life when even the beginning is so complicated: a single cell imprinted with the color of your eyes and the shape of your face the pattern on your palm and the moods that will shadow you through your life. How can you be alive when every choice you make breaks the world into a thousand filaments each careless step branching into long tributaries of alternate lives shuddering outward and outward like sheet lightning.

  Dan Chaon

  Eye, Cells, Color

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• 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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• Rights are not easy to obtain, and once we understand this, we must work attentively and persistently - and never become careless or lazy.

  Malalai Joya

  Rights, Lazy, Easy

  Malalai Joya (2009). “A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some time, one learns that the young think too little and the old too much, and one grows careless about both.

  Horace Walpole

  Thinking, Ignorant, Mind

  Horace Walpole (1866). “The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford”, p.368

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• How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though it may not be much worth preserving, but a letter! Conveyed by uncertain transportation, over which the sender has no control; committed to a single individual who may be careless or inappreciative; left to the mercy of future generations, of families maybe anxious to suppress the past, of the accidents of removals and house-cleanings, or of mere ignorance. How often it has been by the veriest chance that they have survived at all.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Ignorance, Past, House

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• Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle. In many parts of the world society is given to instant gratification and consumerism while remaining indifferent to the damage which these attitudes cause. Simplicity, moderation and discipline, as well as a spirit of sacrifice, must become part of everyday life, lest all suffer the negative consequences of the careless habits of a few.

  Pope John Paul II

  Attitude, Sacrifice, Discipline

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• Concerning the loved ones who have passed on ... do not try to make me believe that they are doing nothing, merely resting, careless ever. That would imply the condition of Hell, not of Heaven.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Believe, Heaven, Trying

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• I lost a horse today.' 'That sounds careless. What happened?' 'She jumped off a cliff.' 'A cliff! Is that normal?

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Horse, Sound, Today

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• I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the war. Laws were for the stupid the immature the irresponsible. The inflexible and the narrow-minded. The prejudiced. The obsessive. The lazy and careless and selfish and spoilt. The violent.

  John Marsden

  Attitude, Selfish, War

  John Marsden (2010). “While I Live: The Ellie Chronicles 1: The Ellie Chronicles”, p.60, Pan Australia

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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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• I am Retired Leisure. I am to be met with in trim gardens. I am already come to be known by my vacant face and careless gesture, perambulating at no fixed pace nor with any settled purpose. I walk about; not to and from.

  Charles Lamb

  Retirement, Garden, Purpose

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia [both series]; to which are added, Letters, and Rosamund, a tale”, p.218

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• Many of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from knives and fires, but put permanent scars on their souls.

  Gilbert Highet

  Children, Character, Fire

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

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• The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited long for an interpreter, so he can wait for his followers.

  Wendell Phillips

  Ideas, Numbers, Long

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• Actively we have woven ourselves with the very warp and woof of this nation, - we have fought their battles, shared their sorrow, mingled our blood with theirs, and generation after generation have pleaded with a headstrong, careless people to despise not Justice, Mercy and Truth, lest the nation be smitten with a curse. Our song, our toil, our cheer and warning have been given to this nation in blood-brotherhood. Are not these gifts worth the giving? Is not this worth the striving? Would America have been America without her Negro People?

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Song, Cheer, Blood

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• Life is so short, it seems careless not to use it all.

  Trevor McDonald

  Use, Life Is, Seems

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• It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden.

  Socrates

  Eye, Men, Self

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• The American people need to know that money is being used effectively because frankly, the nation can't afford careless spending, no matter how well-intentioned.

  Michael Enzi

  People, Needs, Matter

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• Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he is speaking, and saying whatever comes into his head and whatever he's learned from saying prayers at other times, in my opinion is not praying. Please, God, may no Christian pray in this way.

  Teresa of Avila

  Christian, Prayer, Saint

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• Let me spell my name out for you, it's Ricky:
  R: Ravishing, I: Impress,
  C: Courageous or Careless,
  K: for the Kangols which I've got,
  That I wear everyday and Y: Why not?

  Slick Rick

  Rap, Names, Hip Hop

  Song: Mona Lisa, Album: The Great Adventures of Slick Rick, 1988

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