Top 100 Do Not Care Quotes
#1. Every white person in this country-and I do not care what he or she says-knows one thing. They may not know, as they put, "what I want",but they know they would not like to be black here.
If they know that, then they know everything they need to know, and whatever else they say is a lie.
James Baldwin
#2. Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.
Jef Raskin
#3. I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic.
Joaquin Sorolla
#4. Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.
Ben Marcus
#5. Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.
Anthony Burgess
#6. I do not care if Laurence tells me not to squash you
Naomi Novik
#7. Hooking up with people who do not care about your happiness or you; is a serious and big decision. If you do decide to hook up, you must have a good reason for it just as you would to have a relationship.
Shahla Khan
#8. Lost race?" The Prince studied Orayna, trying to see something inhuman in her. "Why have I never heard of these 'Rathiuel'?"
"Because," Azaroth rapped his knuckles on the Prince's skull, "you do not care to read.
Leonard Mokos
#9. I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.
Haile Gerima
#10. I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
Michel De Montaigne
#11. It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
Jean De La Bruyere
#12. This is I. I am as you see me. I do not care to be otherwise.
Pearl S. Buck
#13. It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.
James Joyce
#14. I really do not care if it is a B-movie or not.
Pam Grier
#15. We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.
Will Smith
#16. Chess players do not care about the pawns. They sacrifice the least powerful so they can hold on to their power.Your leaders play chess with your lives,but what the world does not yet know is that someone else whispers the moves as they play...
Catherine Linka
#17. So I be written in the Book of Love. I do not care about that Book Above. Erase my name, or write it as you will. So I be written in the Book of Love.
Omar Khayyam
#18. Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent.
Bruno Jasienski
#19. I do not care much about the mysteries of the universe, unless they come to me in words, or in music maybe, or in a set of colours, and then I entertain them merely for their beauty and only briefly.
Colm Toibin
#20. For years one has to put up with the feeling that people do not care, really care, about one; then one day with growing alarm, one realizes that it is God who does not care; and not merely that he does not care, he does not care one way or the other.
Lawrence Durrell
#21. I know you do not care much for such revelries, but trust me - this one you will enjoy, Harry. You and I will sit at the high table, eating porpoise and swan, whilst we watch my male kinfolk eating humble pie!
Sharon Kay Penman
#22. If any harm shall befall him, I will come after you, and find you where you sleep. I do not care where you lay your head or who with, my vengeance shall rain upon you until you drown.
J.R. Ward
#23. What you told me was that the love of beauty is like a sickness, as all the devouring love inside a person. I stood there right in front of you and ate one of the crayons you had handed me. For when you love you do not care.
Charlotte Sorel
#24. There are men who are willing to marry a woman they do not care about merely because she is admired by other men. Such a relation exists between many men and their thoughts.
Otto Weininger
#25. I do not care for socially recognizable success. I only value that success which I can feel within me, which satisfies me, and which basically stems from self-knowledge.
Anwar Sadat
#26. The corn is planted first, followed by beans, then squash between the rows.They are called the Three Sisters. They sustain each other, the earth, and us. But the Big Ones do not know that. They do not care for the earth, and its children, properly.
Elizabeth Haydon
#27. From the moment I saw you, I knew I would do anything to have you and I do not care how I achieve my goal. By fair means or foul, you will be mine.
Evangeline Anderson
#28. Decided to have a cappuccino and chocolate croissants on way to work to cheer self up. Do not care about figure. Is no point as no one loves or cares about me.
Helen Fielding
#29. I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers.
Albert Einstein
#30. This world is gradually becoming a place Where I do not care to be any more.
John Berryman
#31. It's crazy to say that after three games [without a goal] I was in crisis. I do not care whether I score or not, what matters is that the team win and continue to do so.
Lionel Messi
#32. I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make.
Elizabeth Bowen
#33. Older people often mistakenly consider that the young people do not care about their country, but the reverse is actually true.
Peter Cosgrove
#34. If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
Henry David Thoreau
#35. I do not care about the greatest good for the greatest number ... Most people are poop-heads I do not care about them at all.
James Alan Gardner
#36. I don't allow anybody to change me. I still walk outta my house in rollers and I take walks. I do not care what people think.
Britney Spears
#37. It is not safe to hate the Arameri. Instead we hate their weapons, because weapons do not care.
N.K. Jemisin
#38. Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
Barbara Mertz
#39. Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care.
Audre Lorde
#40. Not offering this kind of guarantee means that they do not believe in their product enough, and they do not care about if a salesman is over promising or over selling their product.
Matthew Lesko
#41. I pray because I am real clear that what I am doing and how I am doing it is my service, is my ministry, and so I want to be in perfect alignment with my creator. I do not care who you are. If I do not get the okay on the inside, you will not be showing up on the outside.
Iyanla Vanzant
#42. It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.
Adam Schiff
#43. At the conclusion of my argument I received very high compliments from the Chief Justice and later from other of the Judges. What they said I do not care to repeat.
William Henry Moody
#44. YOU WILL DRINK THE COFFEE UNTIL I CAN SEE MY FACE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE CUP!" I did not mean to roar. "But it's a clay cup." "I DO NOT CARE!" He finished the coffee. "You did not have to finish it," I said, because I could perceive that he was rebuilding the Great Wall of China with shit bricks.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#45. Even if I be likened to a rat, I do not care, provided that that particular rat be wanted by you, and be of use in the world, and be retained in its position, and receive its reward. But what a rat it is!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#46. Your shadow is bought and paid for, and your death will not remit that payment. You can go shadowless into the shadowless world, and your death will only be one last dark thing on my long dark road. It will hurt me but I do not care. It is all but over.
Erin Bow
#47. If a book cover has raised lettering, metallic lettering, or raised metallic lettering, then it is telling the reader: Hello. I am an easy-to-read work on espionage, romance, a celebrity, and/or murder. To readers who do not care for such things, this lettering tells them: Hello. I am crap.
Paul Collins
#48. I do not care for the money, just for the glory.
Anna Held
#49. I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.
Jack Vance
#50. I have at all times tried to use my influence toward protecting the property holders and substantial men of the country from thieves, outlaws and murderers, among whom I do not care to be classed.
Clay Allison
#51. I needed a break, and going to culinary school turned a lightbulb on that I didn't have to make music. The people in the music business forget that not only is there an entire world of people out there who do not care what we do, we are not creating the wheel.
Kelis
#52. My fellow man I do not care for.
I often ask me, What's he there for?
The only answer i can find
Is, Reproduction of his kind.
Ogden Nash
#53. Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#54. Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I must live my life amongst them.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#55. Most, it would seem to me, do not care for nature and would sell their share.
Henry David Thoreau
#56. Certain plants, like certain friends, you enjoy having for a visit but do not care to see remain forever and a day.
Henry Sherman Adams
#57. I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.
Samuel Johnson
#58. I nodded yes. Another deceit. I have become a person I do not care for.
Sandra Gulland
#59. If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.
Ernest Hemingway,
#60. Only those who do not care, only those who find a way to diminish or extinguish the value of other human beings, survive wars without damage and speak of warrior honor afterward.
Aleksandar Hemon
#61. I do not care a rap as to who gets credit for the work, provided the work is done.
Theodore Roosevelt
#62. Expression, expression is the thing - in art. I do not care what it expresses, and I cannot most always sometimes tell, generally, but expression is what I worship, it is what I glory in, with all my impetuous nature.
Mark Twain
#63. I do not just want you at your best.
I almost do not care
where your Happiness lives,
but please,
let me visit your pain?
Take me to the place
where your sadness goes,
and show me the tragedy
that no one knows.
Meraaqi
#64. We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that "we choose death."
Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
#65. The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies in the ditch a beggar - his life has been a success.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#66. I kneel in the nights before tigers that will not let me be. what you were will not happen again. the tigers have found me and I do not care.
Charles Bukowski
#67. Are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?
Socrates
#68. I like a boyish quality in a man, somebody who is still adventurous. But I have no rules. I do not care - within reason - about your chronological age. I care whether you have passion in your life.
Mary Frann
#69. I do not care about titles, I am glad I have one now because nobody wanted to fight me, now they will.
Ruslan Provodnikov
#70. Me? Kachka, you love me!" "I love your beauty. I have no use for you personally. You represent all that we hate." "Why do you talk to him so?" Elina asked. "He cannot help that he is beautiful but worthless." "I am not worthless! I am Gwenvael the - " "We do not care, lizard!" Kachka barked.
G.A. Aiken
#71. Often, breaking integrity means repeatedly doing things we do not love with people we do not care for. Isn't life meant to be a passionate love affair with our work, our faith, and those we are blessed to know, care for, and serve?
Brendon Burchard
#72. In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.
Max Frisch
#73. The worst feeling is pretending you do not care about something, when really it is all you seem to think about.Do not date the most beautiful girl in the world, date the girl that makes your world the most beautiful.
Wiz Khalifa
#74. The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.
Stephen Fry
#75. There was once a fiddler who played so beauitully that everybody danced. A deaf man who could not hear the music considered them all insane. Those who are with Jesus in suffering hear this music to which other men are deaf. They dance and do not care if they are considered insane.
Richard Wurmbrand
#76. I must be honest about the fact that I'm made extremely uneasy by excessive noise, and that I do not care for shouted instructions. If I'd been meant to be a sheep, I reasoned, I'd have been born with wool instead of skin.
Alan Bradley
#77. People do not care to give alms without some security for their money; and a wooden leg or a withered arm is a sort of draft upon heaven for those who choose to have their money placed to account there.
Henry MacKenzie
#78. The American people do not care which Party solves the problems confronting our nation.
Arlen Specter
#79. I do not care to be esthetically tickled in a fancy theater surrounded by an audience drenched in the confident perfume of culture. I can't afford it.
Richard Brautigan
#80. I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.
Criss Jami
#81. I do not travel. I am not much of an extrovert, and I'm not much interested in extroverted objects. I do not care for the 'ideas' of novelists. Novels are wonderful, of course, but I prefer newspapers.
Will Cuppy
#82. The best way to lose a job is just not to care. When you do not care, it shows in everything you do.
Bo Bennett
#83. I've noticed that, while I can't help but respect and sort of envy the moral nerve of people who truly do not care what others think of them, people like this also make me nervous, and I tend to do my admiring from a safe distance.
David Foster
#84. The thing about the Oscars is real life doesn't stop. You have to get back to planet Earth the following morning. The rubbish needs taking out. The kids will be crying. They'll need feeding. Kids do not care whether you've been to the Oscars!
Helena Bonham Carter
#85. We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians. We do not care for the Bible, but we do care for the newspaper.At any meeting of politicianshow impertinent it would be to quote from the Bible! how pertinent to quote from a newspaper or from the Constitution!
Henry David Thoreau
#86. I do not care to be admired causelessly, emotionally, intuitively, instinctively - or blindly. I do not care for blindness in any form, I have too much to show - or for deafness, I have too much to say. I do not care to be admired by anyone's heart - only by someone's head.
Ayn Rand
#87. Societies who do not care for their young people and old people are decadent, decaying societies.
Suzan Shown Harjo
#88. People differ in where they direct their empathy and their compassion. Many people are intensely concerned about the suffering of non-human animals, and some do not care at all. There are cultural differences.
Paul Bloom
#89. Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
Gertrude Stein
#90. When a person in your life continuously displays to you they do not care, there comes a point where you may want to start believing them.
Mark W. Boyer
#91. A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep; and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#92. Men do not care how nobly they live, but only for how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.
Seneca.
#93. I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#94. There are two powers in this world which cannot be matched. Beauty and Youth. Buy the beauty and imprison the youth. Give the best models, actress, and girls from town and nail them. I do not care how much it costs.
Ravindra Shukla
#95. Your lineage and surname become irrelevant after your first film. Audiences do not care.
Sanjay Dutt
#96. Those men want to take Laurence from me, and put him in prison, and execute him, and I will not let them, ever, and I do not care if Laurence tells me not to squash you, he added, fiercely, to Lord Barham.
- Temeraire
Naomi Novik
#97. I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.
William Hazlitt
#98. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry Truman
#99. The oligarchs do not care what justice is, only what seems just. They do not care what mercy is, only what appears merciful. Thus justice and mercy will always escape them.
Catherynne M Valente
#100. I stare at him coldly. "I do not care for needlework." I pause. "Unless it involves the base of the skull.
R.L. LaFevers