Careless Quotes
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
A. R. Ammons
A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
David Hume
Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.
Johann Arndt
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.
Honore de Balzac
A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.
Ben Jonson
Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitution, were oblivious, careless, or otherwise unaware of the words they chose for the document and its Bill of Rights.
Diane Wood
I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me.
Margaret Walker
I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
Taylor Swift
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
Robert Browning
Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'
Mary Todd Lincoln
I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.
Pierre Loti
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
Irving Babbitt
I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.
Richard Stallman