Quotes of: Careless Keyword

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

Jane Austen

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

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

Noel Coward

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Samuel Johnson

...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

Fields Of Gold

anger of any kind is a dangerous emotion, it eats at the nerves and eventually makes you careless

The Madness Season

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

The Scorpio Races

Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.

Pandemonium

Nature is the ultimate technology; a technology we are still too immature, arrogant, possessive and careless to care for responsibly.

Voice of Reason

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

Saint Ignatius

When I was very small, the electricity was turned off because we didn't pay the bill. I remember sitting by the oil lamp listening to my mother playing 'Careless Love' on the piano.

Jools Holland

A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.

Ben Jonson

Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression.

James E. Faust

Paul Edgecomb: The man is mean, careless, and stupid. Bad combination in a place like this.

The Green Mile

It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly.

The Gargoyle

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

The God of Small Things

With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though [all] could be swept into a nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.

1984

In his opinion, all the world’s misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.

Momo

Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant.

Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God

Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

Pride and Prejudice

Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.

P. J. O'Rourke