Carefully Quotes

#1. It's my privilege," I said carefully, trying not to tweak his pride, "to do those things that are easier for me than for you. You do the same for me. Let me deal with her.

Patricia Briggs

#2. So." Noah said carefully. I was sitting up cross-legged and tangled in my sheets.
"So." I said back
"Would you like to hear about Curious George's new adventures?"
I shook my head.
"Are you sure?" Noah asked. "He's been such a naughty monkey."
"Pass.

Michelle Hodkin

#3. We must choose our allegiances carefully, for there is no going back on them.

Jayne Castel

#4. As Christians we need to be patient, understanding, and kind. Instead of going on the attack, we can ask genuine questions. Instead of bristling when our narrative is summarily dismissed, we can carefully explain our way of seeing things. And when we are wrong, we won't be afraid to say so.

Kevin DeYoung

#5. Study whatever you were told very carefully. Make the best choices for the best brands and discard the rest.

Israelmore Ayivor

#6. Pick your enemies more carefully then your friends, they will be with you longer.

Joe Abercrombie

#7. If she could inherit, she would thus wrongly transmit her paternal family's riches to that of her husband: she is carefully excluded from the succession.

Simone De Beauvoir

#8. Damen held himself very still. This easy way of speaking of Auguste was new, and he didn't want to disturb it.
After a moment, Laurent said, 'He would have liked you.'
'Even after I started courting his little brother?' said Damen carefully.

C.S. Pacat

#9. So, we're well aware of the questions that our audience is inevitably going to ask. We're well aware of how carefully they watch the show and hold us to continuity. We're certainly aware of the debates that are going to occur.

Jeff Pinkner

#10. A lot of newsrooms have thought very carefully about how they cover race. I don't think the same conversations have gone on regarding women.

Nicolle Wallace

#11. They read. The sounds of paper between them as they turn and crease and carefully avoid touching each other.

Alexis M. Smith

#12. The idea that one thing that will define you, forever, is pretty amazing," I said. "It makes you choose it more carefully.

Katie Kacvinsky

#13. I not only think but also look and study things carefully. When I travel around, I look at things carefully, make comparisons of what I see. I don't accept things at face value, you cannot trust what you hear or see. Don't jump to conclusions without thinking.

Mahathir Mohamad

#14. An inspirational writer's life is an open book that never shuts. Choose your words carefully.

Shannon L. Alder

#15. Listen to me carefully, sweet girl. Don't live any other way than the way that makes you happy. If you aren't happy, leave your lover. If you aren't happy, quit the job. If you aren't happy, do more to make yourself happy. Because you are the only one who can make yourself happy.

Sara Wolf

#16. Caleb runs up to me and folds me carefully in his arms. I breathe a sigh of relief. I thought I had gotten to the point where I didn't need my brother anymore, but I don't think such a point actually exists.

Veronica Roth

#17. A carefully preserved English accent also upped the fear factor.

Zadie Smith

#18. My family wasn't terribly affluent and looked upon money very carefully as something that had to be saved, not spent. My father built the ducting that took air into the copper mines and made about 6 d a yard in the Thirties, which was good money back then.

Wilbur Smith

#19. They listen carefully and empathically, are nonjudgmental, are open to new experiences and perspectives, are approachable and friendly, and like to listen

Clara E. Hill

#20. The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

Margaret Oliphant

#21. Slowly, carefully, he pulled the wig from her head. He asked, bemused, "You just happened to have this lying about?" "I meant to wear it for a masquerade." He chuckled, deep in his throat. An intimate sound that warmed her. "And you certainly did. The longest masquerade in history.

Julie Klassen

#22. It has always been very important to look carefully at young people and the way they wear clothes.

Brunello Cucinelli

#23. Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher.

Alex Comfort

#24. Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.

Brian Jacques

#25. 'Band on the Run' is a carefully composed, intricately designed personal statement that will make it impossible for anyone to classify Paul McCartney as a mere stylist again.

Jon Landau

#26. You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see things as clearly as you do. We have to guard carefully against it.

Carl Sagan

#27. Many things in life are difficult," said Reven, choosing his words carefully. "But to those who persevere, all things are possible.

Sage Blackwood

#28. With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.

John Sandford

#29. The allies are looking carefully at the relationship.

James Appathurai

#30. The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

Ezra Pound

#31. Identity is a concept of our age that should be used very carefully. All types of identities, ethnic, national, religious, sexual or whatever else, can become your prison after a while. The identity that you stand up for can enslave you and close you to the rest of the world.

Murathan Mungan

#32. You shall use all your senses to monitor very carefully all that goes on about you, inside and outside.

Sandy Woodward

#33. Care for yourself enough to listen carefully to what you say to yourself.

Willis Regier

#34. Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.

Nancy Duarte

#35. We stepped carefully, so softly, over thorny plants. The dust had turned to mud, splattering our shoes, socks, and legs. By the time we reached the boat, our clothes were clinging to our flesh and stained with the bloody remains of mosquitoes.

Mia Kirshner

#36. I think you sense the metaphorical resonance of what you're writing without analysing it too carefully. That leads you down dead ends. You stop imagining things and start writing towards these themes.

Joseph O'Neill

#37. In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed.

David Ricardo

#38. A story without context is like a diamond without a mounting. The stone may be beautiful lying loose on a table, but when it is carefully mounted in the right setting it can dazzle you with its brilliance and sparkling beauty.

Charles R. Swindoll

#39. I have to go over my carefully prepared ad-libs.

Vin Scully

#40. He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.

Baruch Spinoza

#41. If a man goes up into Parnassus after sunset, why should he not see strange things? The gods still walk there, and a man who would not go carefully in the country of the gods is a fool.

Mary Stewart

#42. Reflect carefully on this, for it is so important that I can hardly lay too much stress on it. Fix your eyes on the Crucified and nothing else will be of much importance to you.

Teresa Of Avila

#43. Every single person is unlike anyone else. Therefore, in creating a portrait of someone ... we must look carefully to catch that particular unique quality. In fact, we can neglect nothing because everything we select or do sends a message to the observer ...

Alton Tobey

#44. Ed held his sword tight in both hands and went slowly and carefully down. There was the unmistakable smell of sicko down here and Ed's throat was very dry.

Charlie Higson

#45. Therefore our choices need to be made carefully. Every single thing that one of us thinks says or does, impacts all the rest of humanity on one level or another.

Dannion Brinkley

#46. We have to make the effort to heal words by using them properly and carefully.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#47. Throughout the millennia and across cultures, those who have thought carefully about desire have drawn the conclusion that spending our days working to get whatever it is we find ourselves wanting is unlikely to bring us either happiness or tranquility.

William B. Irvine

#48. All is context. Choose yours carefully, where you have a choice.

Mike Young

#49. If we examine ourselves carefully we shall see most of us have an enormous amount of unfinished business ... We have to be free so that we can just step across the line and that's it. That is what real freedom is.

Thomas Merton

#50. [On the Netherlands:] There is not a richer or more carefully tilled garden spot in the whole world than this leaky, springy little country.

Mary Mapes Dodge

#51. I don't cut deep-I don't want to kill the tree. I carve her name carefully on the trunk, thinking, as I always do, of when I held her hand in mine to teach her to write.

Ally Condie

#52. When I am writing political op-eds, I do think carefully about the impact of my words. When I am writing fiction, it's a different story. In my fiction I am more reckless. I don't care about the real world until I am done with the book.

Elif Safak

#53. Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness.

Amy Harmon

#54. People with something to hide wore sunglasses indoors. They were the ones you had to watch very carefully.

Alexander McCall Smith

#55. And then I carefully sealed away my heart...

Stephenie Meyer

#56. Communists must always go into the why's and wherefore's of anything, use their own heads and carefully think over whether or not it corresponds to reality and is really well founded; on no account should they follow blindly and encourage slavishness.

Mao Zedong

#57. See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from her hands, or causes it to be removed by the violence of another, or suffocates and poisons, or taints with suspicion, fear and jealousy to the great hurt and ruin of the possessor.

Giordano Bruno

#58. Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

Anne Michaels

#59. No, it wasn't an accident, I didn't say that. It was carefully planned, down to the tiniest mechanical and emotional detail. But it was a mistake.

John Paxton

#60. May I beg you carefully to judge every preacher, not by his gifts, not by his elocutionary powers, not by his status in society, not by the respectability of his congregation, not by the prettiness of his church, but by this - does he preach the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation?43

Steven J. Lawson

#61. The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

Rene Descartes

#62. We fear that evaluating our needs and then carefully choosing partners will reveal that there is no one for us to love. Most of us prefer to have a partner who is lacking than no partner at all. What becomes apparent is that we may be more interested in finding a partner than in knowing love.

Bell Hooks

#63. I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can.

John Green

#64. A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#65. Carefully studying the delicate form of the doll, she was thinking how easy it was to wish for things as a child. Then nothing seemed impossible. Growing up, one realizes how many things one cannot wish for, the things that are forbidden, sinful. Indecent.

Laura Esquivel

#66. Please listen carefully. The key for experiencing the flow of God's living water in your life is ... Obedience.

Brother Yun

#67. I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

James Herriot

#68. I did absolutely nothing. Carefully.

Jim Butcher

#69. It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.

Gary Numan

#70. Lives - even the most carefully managed - are voids filled with echoes

Vincent Canby

#71. I don't have a particular recommendation other than that we base decisions on as much hard data as possible. We need to carefully look at all the options and all their ramifications in making our decisions.

Dorothy Denning

#72. Carefully, he reached around her with both arms so his fingers locked across her back.
'You have to squeeze,' she whispered, 'or it's not a hug.

Ali Shaw

#73. He carefully studies the position that he intends to conquer.

Paulo Coelho

#74. Do I need fifty finger-painted pictures by my toddler, or is one enough to capture this time of life? Mementos work best when they're carefully chosen - and when they don't take up much room!

Gretchen Rubin

#75. I do feel that I have unfinished business in the Premier League and now is the right time to return. I considered all the other offers very carefully and I firmly believe that Chelsea is the best choice. They match my footballing ambitions with their hunger and desire to win trophies.

Cesc Fabregas

#76. If Bear Grylls bred with Chuck Norris, I would be their love child. That's how skilled I am." Lucy's face remained carefully blank. "Thank you for that disturbing imagery. But we both know Chuck Norris needs no one. He creates children from thought alone." "Agree

Jaymin Eve

#77. There's a natural mystic blowing through the air. If you listen carefully now, you will hear.

Bob Marley

#78. Take it easy, I carefully suggested to a pale Jo. She was chugging a glass of Champagne so quickly I half expected the bubble to shoot right down to her arse and release tiny Champagne sparkle farts.

Becca Lee

#79. Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.

Erving Goffman

#80. No matter what your career aspirations are, you should begin by thinking carefully about why you are engaging in any activity and what you can expect to get out of it.

Robert Pozen

#81. That was when I realized I was leaving my footprints all around the room. The soles of my feet were covered with blood. While continuing to move around, I carefully examined the prints. Suddenly I felt like laughing. They were dance steps. The footprints of St. Vitus. Footprints leading nowhere.

Roberto Bolano

#82. Apparently, I'm a senstive guy. You didn't notice that about me right away?" He moved closer, carefully, slowly encroaching on her space. "I cry at chick flicks and weddings.

Stephanie Rowe

#83. The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

Crystal Eastman

#84. I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization.

Peter Jennings

#85. It's perfectly possible to enjoy a good, civilized, person-to-person conversation with a picture on a museum wall. Talk to it, listen carefully, and it will more than likely talk back to you.

Peter Clothier

#86. He had the singular ability to knock down her carefully bricked defenses, which was a compliment to them both and the secret to their love.

Eleanor Brown

#87. In terms of personal choices, let's all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.

Sylvia Earle

#88. Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.

Michel De Montaigne

#89. Let the children ... be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.

Benjamin Rush

#90. My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully.

Bertrand Russell

#91. Check your belonging and steps carefully.

Agung Rusmana

#92. The art of living deliberately is the art of examining this vast storehouse of beliefs, dropping the out-moded ones, consciously choosing those that serve your goals, and carefully crafting new ones in greatest alignment with your desires.

Sir Richard Bishop

#93. When there are strange things going on all around, every coincidence should be considered very carefully.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#94. Fighting is necessary in hockey. But if you fight, you have to choose your partner carefully. If you're an experienced player and you want to fight, you can't choose a player who has never fought in his life.

Alexander Ovechkin

#95. A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate and purple will do for the tragedians, not for life.

Philemon

#96. The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.

Haruki Murakami

#97. Allow God to have complete liberty in your life when you speak. Before God's message can liberate other people, His liberation must first be real in you. Gather your material carefully, and then allow God to "set your words on fire" for His glory.

Oswald Chambers

#98. Like any collection of family photographs, it was a random selection that told only fragments of a story. The real tale would be revealed by the pictures that were missing or never even taken at all, not the ones that had been so carefully framed or packed away neatly in an envelope.

Victoria Hislop

#99. If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger by carefully trailing behind the cat while boasting of the deep friendship they share. In this way, he creates an impression that his well being is of great concern to the tiger.

Chin-Ning Chu

#100. They dance together in a line, murmuring in swift, low voices, smiling carefully as they are too proud to give away their beauty. They are light steppers with a gravity of sure grace.

Louise Erdrich