Careless Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• 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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• Keen at the start, but careless at the end.

  Tacitus

  Ends

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• I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired.

  Charles Bukowski

  Tired, Effort, Enough

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• When one of my Japanese teacups is broken, I imagine that the real cause was not the careless hand of a maid but the anxieties of the figures inhabiting the curves of that porcelain. Their grim decision to commit suicide doesn't shock me: they used the maid as one of us might use a gun.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Suicide, Real, Gun

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• Kissing can ruin lives. Lips touch sometimes teeth clash. New hunger is born with a throb and caution falls away. A cursed girl with lips still moist from her first kiss might feel suddenly wild like a little monsoon. She might forget her curse just long enough to get careless and let it come true. She might kill everyone she loves.

  Laini Taylor

  Girl, Fall, Kissing

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.63, Scholastic Inc.

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• I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans.

  J. K. Rowling

  Luck, Best Laid Plans, Chance

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, p.17, Pottermore

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• Mnemosyne, one must admit, has shown herself to be a very careless girl.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Girl

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1989). “Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited”

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• Until I lose my soul and lie Blind to the beauty of the earth, Deaf though shouting wind goes by, Dumb in a storm of mirth; Until my heart is quenched at length And I have left the land of men, Oh, let me love with all my strength Careless if I am loved again.

  Sara Teasdale

  Lying, Heart, Men

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• What do you mean, Araluen? Death?" Halt made a careless gesture. "The usual, I suppose: the sudden cessation of life. The end of it all. Departure for a happier place. Or oblivion, depending upon your personal beliefs.

  John Flanagan

  Mean, Usual, Departure

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• You can never hope to recapture the first fine careless rapture as the poet put it, but it stays with you like a good acid trip.

  Stephen Fry

  Firsts, Fine, Rapture

  "First Love Is Always Unrequited". Big think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• The media only report stupid or careless answers, not stupid or unfair questions.

  Colin Powell

  Stupid, Media, Answers

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• Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name upon every trifling occasion . . . . To prevent this profanation, such passages are selected from scripture, as contain some important precepts of morality and religion, in which that sacred name is seldom mentioned. Let sacred things be appropriated to sacred purposes.

  Noah Webster

  Names, Religion, Important

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• I would like to say something, not just to Vietnam veterans in New England, but to men who were in Vietnam, who I hurt, or whose pain I caused to deepen because of the things that I said or did. I was trying to help end the killing and the war, but there were times when I was thoughtless and careless about it and I'm...very sorry that I hurt them. And I want to apologize to them and their families.

  Jane Fonda

  Hurt, Sorry, Pain

  "Fox 411: 'Hanoi Jane': An Urban Myth Re-Examined". www.foxnews.com. January 31, 2001.

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• When there are no avenues of escape or one is caught even before any attempt to escape can be made, then for the first time the use of self-defense techniques should be considered. Even at times like these, do not show any intention of attacking, but first let the attacker become careless. At that time attack him concentrating one's whole strength in one blow to a vital point and in the moment of surprise, escape and seek shelter and help.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Blow, Times Like These, Self

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• Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow.

  Thomas Gray

  Happiness, Pain, Blow

  Thomas Campbell, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Gray (1872). “The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors”, p.391

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• Dear God, teach me to be careless.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Dear God, Teach, Dear

  Hanif Kureishi (2002). “Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire

  Thucydides

  Long, Desire, Use

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• I've been a bad, bad girl - I've been careless with a delicate man.

  Fiona Apple

  Girl, Men, Misogyny

  Song: Criminal, Album: Tidal, 1996

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• I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Drunk, Littles, Enough

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.12, Hamilton Books

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• Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions of acres by the careless acts of millions of people. It cannot be saved by heroic feats of gigantic technology, but only by millions of small acts and restraints, conditioned by small fidelities, skills, and desires. Soil loss is ultimately a cultural problem; it will be corrected only by cultural solutions.

  Wendell Berry

  Loss, Technology, Small Acts

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.202, Counterpoint

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• Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Indulge In, Joy

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• Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Horse, Sleep

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• Women of fashion and character--I do not mean absolutely unblemished--are a necessary ingredient in the composition of good company; the attention which they require, and which is always paid them by well-bred men, keeps up politeness, and gives a habit of good-breeding; whereas men, when they live together without the lenitive of women in company, are apt to grow careless, negligent, and rough among one another.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fashion, Character, Mean

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