Careless Quotes - Page 9

• For much of my life I floundered under the excuse of "nobody's perfect," the liberating and over-used phrase that affords guys like me the freedom to pile up sins in a careless and unchecked way. Ironically, being perfect is precisely what we are called to be!

  Tarek Saab

  Perfect, Guy, Catholic

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• Two big punchers, you've got to keep your chin down, keep your defense up, don't be careless or open, box sensibly, control the centre of the ring and when he lets his punches go, believe me he's gonna know all about it.

  Joe Calzaghe

  Motivation, Believe, Two

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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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• The machinery of destruction is complete, poised on a hair trigger, waiting for the 'button' to be 'pushed' by some misguided or deranged human being or for some faulty computer chip to send out the instruction to fire. That so much should be balanced on so fine a point--that the fruit of four and a half billion years can be undone in a careless moment--is a fact against which belief rebels.

  Jonathan Schell

  Hair, Years, Fire

  Jonathan Schell (2000). “The Fate of the Earth: And, The Abolition”, p.182, Stanford University Press

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• They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word. To-day, wrapped in the complacent armour of approaching middle age, the infinitesimal pricks of day by day brush one but lightly and are soon forgotten, but then—how a careless word would linger, becoming a fiery stigma, and how a look, a glance over a shoulder, branded themselves as things eternal.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Fall, Brave, Age

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• But as the priceless treasure too frequently hides at the bottom of well, it needs some courage to dive for it, especially as he that does so will be likely to incur more scorn and obloquy for the mud and water into which he has ventured to plunge, than thanks for the jewel he procures; as like in manner, she who undertakes the cleansing of a careless bachelor's apartment will be liable to more abuse for the dust she raises than commendation for the clearance she effects.

  Anne Bronte

  Dust, Jewels, Water

  Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte (2014). “The Complete Novels Of The Bronte Sisters: Seven-Book Bundle”, p.243, Harper Collins

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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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• I have taken so many wrong turns and been so careless with precious things and managed to lose, or break, or leave out in the rain so much that I loved.

  Garrison Keillor

  Taken, Rain, Break

  Garrison Keillor (2004). “Love Me”, p.185, Penguin

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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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• Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.

  Margaret Atwood

  Time, Children, Water

  Margaret Atwood (2016). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.352, Random House

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• Being carefree, you can fit in anywhere. If you’re not carefree you keep on bumping up against things. Your life becomes so narrow, so tight; it gets very claustrophobic. Carefree means being wide open from within, not constricted. Carefree doesn’t mean careless. It is not that you don’t care about others, not that you don’t have compassion or are unfriendly. Carefree is being really simple, from the inside. Dignity is not conceit but rather what shines forth from this carefree confidence.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Mean, Simple, Compassion

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• A stiff letter galls one like a stiff shirt collar -- whilst a sheet garnished here and there with a careless blot -- and here and there a dash -- but in the main full of excellent matter, is like a clever fellow in a dirty shirt whom we value for the good humour he brings with him and not for the garb he wears.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Clever, Dirty, Letters

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• The more careless, the more modish.

  Jonathan Swift

  1738 Polite Conversation, dialogue 1.

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• I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.

  Richard Stallman

  Moving, People, Born

  "Google's ChromeOS means losing control of data, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2010.

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• You don't have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don't have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

  Joyce Meyer

  Giving, Feelings, Complaining

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• You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to makes such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person I thought it was your secret pride." "I'm thirty," I said. "I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor." She didn't answer. Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Sorry, Lying, Mean

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.109, e-artnow

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• The stars whirled above us and the firecrackers blazed. The moon stood watch as drops of blood fell, careless seeds that sizzled in the snow.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Stars, Moon, Blood

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.149, Scholastic UK

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• [Stanley] Kubrick was a great artist and a perfectionist. He always wanted the exact right thing. He did a million takes. Everything had to be perfect. I'm an imperfectionist. I don't really care that much about the work. I write quickly. I'm careless. I shoot carelessly.

  Woody Allen

  Writing, Artist, Perfect

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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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• There are hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Heart, Broken, Together

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread”, p.116, Candlewick Press

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• She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.

  Jane Austen

  Presence Of Mind, Tongue, Sometimes

  Jane Austen (2015). “Persuasion”, p.188, Jane Austen

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• It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards; a lesson, by the way, that the Earth has yet to learn.

  Tom Robbins

  Sexy, Peace, Flower

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.280, Bantam

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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 made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter. You are the best thing that's ever been mine.

  Taylor Swift

  Daughter, Men, Rebel

  Song: Mine, Album: Speak Now, 2010

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• Trust is a careless pursuit at best. At worst, it's a good way to get yourself killed.

  Lauren Kate

  Way, Pursuit, Fallen

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.479, Delacorte Press

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