Careening Quotes

#1. [Lear] is the universal image of the unwisdom and destructiveness of paternal love at its most ineffectual, implacably persuaded of its own benignity, totally devoid of self-knowledge, and careening onward until it brings down the person it loves best, and its world as well.

Harold Bloom

#2. I look on, it manages to hit the Colonies plane and ignite one of its engines, sending it careening wildly to one side and leaving a trail of dark smoke behind

Marie Lu

#3. One day, he and William had been speeding toward each other; the next, careening away. But why?

Garth Risk Hallberg

#4. He was so fucked, careening madly down the path to getting his heart splattered all over hell. And grinning like a buffoon the entire time.

Cherrie Lynn

#5. People say that it's the big decisions that are important ... that these are the type of issues worthy of prolonged consideration. But no one ever explains how it's the little choices that send your life careening in another direction.

Julie Gittus

#6. What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.

Terence McKenna

#7. Grace is a small white butterfly, and life is a semi trailer careening up 101.

Anne Lamott

#8. A whole new life at fifty, all because I had become entranced with both the Turkish culture and with Kazim - who one friend called a careening festival of a human being and another called an alcoholic Kurdish carpet salesman. I called him a catalyst.

Irfan Orga

#9. I'd like to think that we're not just sacks of biological goo careening through a random universe.

Jordan Castillo Price

#10. A life best lived is a life by design. Not by accident, and not by just walking through the day careening from wall to wall and managing to survive. That's okay. But if you can start giving your life dimensions and design and color and objectives and purpose, the results can be staggering.

Jim Rohn

#11. The books in the tote bag banged against her side as she pushed her bike, bringing her back to the present. The weight of the books grounded her, giving her careening emotions purchase with their heft and substance.

Jenn McKinlay

#12. Paul, careening down the slide with his arms out flung, and Phoebe, present somehow through her absence.

Kim Edwards

#13. How mighty, how great the One must be, I thought, to send the heavens careening, and yet hear the cry of a single heart.

Tosca Lee

#14. Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.

Mason Cooley

#15. I always say that I would go poor eating my way through New York because I like to try everything.

Tia Mowry

#16. Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

Franz Grillparzer

#17. The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body

Baruch Spinoza

#18. Everyone does it. It doesn't mean you're a bad man. It just means you're not as good of one as you should be.

D.C. Juris

#19. Yet even without saying, each knew what the other was thinking, and, more acutely, what the other was feeling
this is a further effect of our shared sorrow, this empathy, this mournful telepathy.

John Banville