Careless Quotes
How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness.
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.
Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.
We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.
A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.
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.
Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go-or got careless and crushed it.
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.
The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
She is sloppy, careless, and have many flaws here and there, but she is so honest and innocent like she's still a kid.
Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.
A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.
Waste in all its forms is to be abhorred... I deplore giving money to an institution that is careless in its expenditures.
I tasted - careless - then - I did not know the Wine Came once a World - Did you? Oh, had you told me so - This Thirst would blister - easier - now
A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigour unlike that of any European crowd that I have ever looked at.
Just as the light and weightless vegetation of saltpeter floats over the old walls of houses as soon as the owner gets careless, so the literary vocation springs up in you.
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.
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.
I just feel "One More Try" is better lyrically. "Careless Whisper" was written when I was 17 years old, and I had not really experienced anything that strong in my life, so it was a bit precocious.
A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.
There is evidence that Democrates were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.
Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.
I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.
I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
. . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 'twere a careless trifle.
They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold.
I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.
Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.
Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy.
We are violets blue, For our sweetness found Careless in the mossy shades, Looking on the ground. Love's dropp'd eyelids and a kiss,-- Such our breath and blueness is.
Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we are about who grows our food.
I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.
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.
Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.
Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
If Nature built by rule and square, Than man what wiser would she be? What wins us is her careless care, And sweet unpunctuality.
I'm still very careless about my public persona. Not careless so to speak but I'm not one for fame. I think fame is the worst part about it.
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.