Careful Quotes

#1. Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.

Sophie Hannah

#2. If you are going to be catty, you have to be careful with whom you do it, and in what manner! It's the kind of behavior that is best kept behind closed doors.

Tim Gunn

#3. We should not take the blessings of God for granted. We should always be careful to give God praise and thanksgiving for the work that he does in our lives.

Chuck Smith

#4. So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.

Yahoo Serious

#5. His guests found it fun to watch him make tea
mixing careful spoonfuls from different caddies.

James Hilton

#6. Embryonic stem-cell research requires the destruction of life to create a stem cell. That's why I think we've got to be very careful in balancing the ethics and the science.

George W. Bush

#7. Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.

Alexander Hamilton

#8. You must be careful with that knowledge, though, if you depend too heavily on the idea of it being something later, you will miss the opportunities that will allow it to be possible. That's

Izzy Shows

#9. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Mark Twain

#10. All these years he's been so careful, but now he's willing to take a chance. Because he's found someone who wants to know. Someone he wants to tell.

Ally Condie

#11. With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.

Michael Chabon

#12. You do become more aware of your mortality as you get older. When you're little, you jump on any wild horse. Then you get a little bit older and realize how fragile life is, and you're more careful.

Jennifer Lawrence

#13. Bolster, v.
I am very careful whenever I know you're on the phone with your father. I know you'll come to me eventually, and we'll talk you through it. But I have to wait - you need your time. In the meantime, I'm careful what songs I play. I try to speak to you with my selections.

David Levithan

#14. Be careful what you say and do around a writer; your words and actions may become material.

A.D. Posey

#15. You don't want to come out with anything that's wrong, of course, in a scientific, you know, a major scientific announcement, and so you're being so careful trying to check, well maybe it's this, maybe it's that, you're looking at every possible thing.

Saul Perlmutter

#16. Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age,
but you can't fool a flight of stairs

Marlene Dietrich

#17. How careful she always was with books: they had been her companions, her entertainment, and her only window to the outside world.

Lisa Kleypas

#18. You really have to be careful with the clues you lay into the film - if they're too heavy-handed, or you've pandered to a slightly stupider audience, then you've spoiled it for the people who are even slightly smart.

Ben Wheatley

#19. Coffee could easily become lunch if one was not careful, and lunch could so comfortably slip into afternoon tea.

Alexander McCall Smith

#20. I'm very, very lucky to be a working actor, but I've also been careful. I don't just take anything. 'Durham County' came to me. You have to look at the quality of work you do, and 'Durham' set the standard. I wait for things that keep me really interested.

Hugh Dillon

#21. I know people who have written big hit country songs that are really kind of terrible songs, but for the rest of their life, they're the guy who wrote that. You've got to be careful; if you don't want that to happen, don't write those songs.

Jason Isbell

#22. I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink to much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.

Dashiell Hammett

#23. The broken doors are open - come and enter and be home. My darling girl, be careful now, and don't go out alone.

Mira Grant

#24. Ball position is everything in iron play. If you aren't careful about it, you can create some major problems in your game just by getting an inch or two off.

Ernie Els

#25. You should not be too proud and accept help when it is offered, Lenora. Being overconfident will lead to your defeat if not careful

James Terzian

#26. I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.

Olympia Dukakis

#27. The power of life and death lies in the use of the tongue. Be careful of your words.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. You give anybody a billion dollars, and of course they are passionate. Passion is one of those things like willpower in that there's 'magical thinking' about it. You've got to be careful about 'magical thinking.'

Scott Adams

#29. Careful, Love. You can't offer a starving man a feast and expect him not to take you up on it.

R.K. Lilley

#30. Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the vice-president, though too careful to get himself shot.

William Gibson

#31. So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you ... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff.

Adam Rich

#32. Aditya warned, 'Be careful Nandini. Don't fall in love with the wrong man or you'll die of a broken heart.

Varsha Dixit

#33. Careful, luv. I might be angry with you, but that doesn't mean I don't still want you. So if you do that again, I'll shag you right here, right now, and sod anyone who wants to watch

Jeaniene Frost

#34. Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.

Sarah Kay

#35. I like when I don't have to be careful what I say. That's when you know you're with the right people.

Anonymous

#36. Be careful what you wish for. It may turn out that making the wish was the only good part.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#37. Careful for nothing, prayerful for everything, thankful for anything.

Dwight L. Moody

#38. I'm definitely very careful about the things that I want to be a part of, but it's also important for me to get dance out there to more people.

Misty Copeland

#39. It's just that, time goes by way too fast. If you're not careful you can let years go by without accomplishing any of the things you thought you'd accomplish. That's my biggest fear. That I'll wake up one day and wonder where it all went.

Reeni Austin

#40. Be careful not to give too much credence to the old adage that time heals. Mark my word. It's God that heals. Time only tells.

Beth Moore

#41. Fear is a conditioned response, a life-draining habit that can easily consume your energy, creativity and spirit if you are not careful. When fear rears its ugly head, beat it down quickly. The best way to do that is to do the thing you fear. Fast.

Robin S. Sharma

#42. I have some wigs at home just for fun. Throughout my years, my hair has been treated in a not very nice way, so I have to be careful.

Carice Van Houten

#43. Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.

William Least Heat-Moon

#44. We have a fair on our farm every year - a gymkhana and a dog show and a funfair and a heavy-horse show. It was my idea. Be careful what you wish for - it's a monster.

Martin Clunes

#45. Court an idea as long as you like, but be careful before marrying it.

Arturo Graf

#46. If people realized someone would be sorting through their trash, would they be more careful in what they throw away?

Camron Wright

#47. True Discipleship makes a man and woman a project or an portrait painting to completion

With a careful detail and awareness of every stroke of the brush until the vision comes to pass

Louis

#48. I should have known that when men warn you to be careful, often they are warning you of the dark movie playing across their own brains.

Emma Cline

#49. Time does not heal all wounds; if a man is not careful, time erases wounds. Then what is he left with? The cold and the silence.

Doug Rice

#50. My ex-wife, she really didn't like the material that I did. And that's something I regret, that I wasn't more careful about making sure that she was O.K. with it. I just sort of didn't ask. So that's how that goes.

Louis C.K.

#51. Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

Tobias Wolff

#52. If you are not careful you will end up living the illusions that others have created for you.

Steven Redhead

#53. A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation.

Peter Wessel Zapffe

#54. You only live at once. Which seemed to her all the more reason to be careful, to take it easy, to have an ordinary life.

Lorrie Moore

#55. careful evaluation of various surveys has taken place and support the idea that the number of qualified scientists believing global warming is primarily man-made is less than three percent - rather than ninety-seven percent.

Sally Fernandez

#56. I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.

Robert B. Parker

#57. I've noticed that a lot of people, subsequently, when they introduce me are very careful not to say the Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt. A lot more people are saying Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport.

Jeremy Hunt

#58. What no one tells the young is to be careful of their childhoods. The memories from those days are the most compelling paintings in the mind
to which, with nostalgia or dread, you must ever return.

Gregory Maguire

#59. All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

Damon Lindelof

#60. O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.

Anne Boleyn

#61. I was holding a reserve inside all along. When you're with someone as powerful as Donald, you have no choice. You can get lost within that power if you're not careful.

Marla Maples

#62. Learn the lesson: Once the words are out, you cannot take them back. Keep them under control. Be particularly careful with sarcasm: The momentary satisfaction you gain with your biting words will be outweighed by the price you pay.

Robert Greene

#63. We keep the terrorist threat to the United Kingdom under very careful scrutiny. We think it's right to keep the public informed about the general threat level.

David Miliband

#64. Lord Heikan be careful what you say for treason is not far from your lips.

Joseph Henry Gaines

#65. Twice a day, or at least once, make your particular examens. Be careful never to omit them. So live as to make more account of your own good conscience than you do of those of others; for he who is not good in regard to himself, how can he be good in regard to others?

James Martin

#66. Be careful not to blame yourself if someone rejects Christ. If you do, you might be tempted to take credit when someone accepts him.

Craig Groeschel

#67. Make sure of two things: Be careful
microphones are always hot, and understand that in Washington, DC, a gaffe is when you tell the truth. So, be careful.

Joe Biden

#68. While all important enterprises need careful organization, it is the organization that needs organizing, rather than the enterprise.

Terry Pratchett

#69. God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.

Francis Spufford

#70. We must be careful what we imagine, fear, or hope for. The echoes of our thought live on in eternity.

Robert Fanney

#71. Remember that the policies are only that:
policies - not rules that must be followed. They
can, and should, be broken from time to time,
but the decision to do so should be made
intentionally and often with careful consideration
from the whole team.

Joakim Sunden

#72. I think I learned years ago when I went to Hawaii that you don't bring puka shells back. You've got to be careful of your vacation purchases.

Josh Homme

#73. It was OK to need people; she was learning that. You just had to be careful.

Nicole Richie

#74. I've picked up a great appetite for pastrami on rye and nice cream soda. It's fantastic, but I have to be careful, or I'm going to get really fat.

Vincent Piazza

#75. It will be impossible to catch all the rats, my love," he says. His hand brushes against mine. "Sooner or later, one will squeeze through the cracks. You need to be more careful.

Marie Lu

#76. The problem with life is, we often do things that will ultimately be self-destructive and make us unhappy, yet in that moment it seems like the best idea in the world. You have to be careful of moments - they're tricksy things.

Sophie Dahl

#77. This days one must be careful to avoid awakening the pain of another.

Ishmael Beah

#78. Sometimes, the only way to go forward, is to take a few, careful steps back.

C.M. Stunich

#79. It is not elegant to gnaw Indian corn. The kernels should be scored with a knife, scraped off into the plate, and then eaten with a fork. Ladies should be particularly careful how they manage so ticklish a dainty, lest the exhibition rub off a little desirable romance.

Charlie Day

#80. Knight seemed to weigh the precision of every word he used, careful as a poet. Even his handwritten letters had gone through at least one draft, he said, mostly to remove unnecessary insults. Only necessary ones remained.

Michael Finkel

#81. Be careful who you get advice from. I get advice from people who are where I want to be.

Robert Kiyosaki

#82. I just sometimes get the sneaking suspicion that corporations are co-opting "girl confidence" language to rally girls into buying body wash. Be careful.

Mindy Kaling

#83. One must always be careful not to let one's work be covered with moss.

Marc Chagall

#84. It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.

George Bernard Shaw

#85. Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.

Gore Vidal

#86. Perhaps the most important ingredient in my work ... is my brain - particularly the right brain ... the free spontaneous side, and the left brain, which is careful and methodical.

Brian Johnson

#87. I still reject lead roles, as I don't accept any role if I don't find it challenging enough. I am very careful while making selections.

Boman Irani

#88. Tennis has to be very careful.Not everyone is a computer, it is very good we have John McEnroe. I hope we have a couple more.

Boris Becker

#89. God's intentions could be discerned by the careful study of even the smallest, most seemingly insignificant events. And the past weeks' events were anything but small and insignificant.

Ann Leckie

#90. In most situations, a direct comparison makes people more careful and more logical. But not always. Sometimes intuition beats logic even when the correct answer stares you in the face.

Daniel Kahneman

#91. Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.

Alma Gluck

#92. An analysis of Scripture is all right as long as it is in a very subordinate position, and as long as we are careful it does not so grip us, that we become interested only in an objective, intellectual sense. It is a unique Word, and it must not be approached just as any other book is approached.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#93. There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.

Douglas William Jerrold

#94. She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#95. Be careful, therefore, to take part only in the one Eucharist; for there is only one Flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ and one cup to unite us with His Blood.

Ignatius Of Antioch

#96. You need to be careful with a Bluetooth headset. Because some guys look crazy with them.

Neil Strauss

#97. I think you have to be careful with spices. Kids' palates can be very delicate, and they might not like things overspiced. In my cookbooks for kids, I do a milder version of my signature spice blend, Emeril's Essence, called Baby Bam, which has no cayenne pepper.

Emeril Lagasse

#98. When people think the world of you, be careful with them.

Margaret Cho

#99. Girl is not a toy to play .
She is a bomb to blast your life. So Be careful ...

Yakoob Khan

#100. I'm sorry about your Porsche." "I can replace the Porsche. I can't replace you. You need to be more careful." I was just sitting in your car!" Babe, you're a magnet for disaster.

Janet Evanovich