Quotes About Careless Man

#1. Enjoy a bounty if one falls in your lap. Savor it if it was lost by a careless man.

Kresley Cole

#2. The undertaking of a careless man succeeds not, though he use the right expedients: a clever hunter, though well placed in ambush, kills not his quarry if he falls asleep.

J. K. Bharavi

#3. You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter. You are the best thing that's ever been mine.

Taylor Swift

#4. Unchecked craving strangles the careless man.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#5. Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always.

Octavio Paz

#6. [Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes.

Janet Flanner

#7. Anything else?" "He was a man of untidy habits - very untidy and careless. He was left with

Arthur Conan Doyle

#8. I can only put it sufficiently curtly in a careless simile. A Socialist means a man who thinks a walking-stick like an umbrella because they both go into the umbrella-stand. Yet they are as different as a battle-ax and a bootjack.

G.K. Chesterton

#9. At any rate those two, one the shadow of a shadow in the hall and the other a shadow also, an imitation of the ruthless man who'd stolen from the world with careless ease, both poised, caught in time.

Louise Erdrich

#10. It is only through the radical defile of speech that we fall into the illusion that language is a register of conscious construction

Lacan Jacques

#11. I am an estranged man, said the liar: estranged from myself, from my family, my fellow man, my country, my world, my time, and my culture. I am not estranged from God, although I am a disbeliever in everything about God excepting God indefinable, inside all and careless of all.

William, Saroyan

#12. We need to look at less obvious paths, things like the wind in the jet stream, which is very high up. The material science of what type of kite string you would need to connect up to that. That's still at the basic research level.

Bill Gates

#13. I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,
fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.

Oliver Goldsmith

#14. If a man cannot learn well a melody on pipe or harp, unless he in every way strain his attention; how shall one, who sits as a listener to sounds mystical, be able to hear with a careless soul?

John Chrysostom

#15. He was, in other words, a careful man with careless impulses.

Dan Simmons

#16. You must know that with a good heart you can never be a poor person! And you must also know that with a bad heart it is impossible to be a rich person! Goodness enriches; badness impoverishes!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

Mel Brooks

#18. I've been a bad, bad girl - I've been careless with a delicate man.

Fiona Apple

#19. 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.

Herman Melville

#20. That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, while the man seems careless and indifferent.

Sophy Burnham

#21. Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.

Gautama Buddha

#22. If Nature built by rule and square, Than man what wiser would she be? What wins us is her careless care, And sweet unpunctuality.

Alfred Austin

#23. Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.

Gautama Buddha

#24. Man had created God in his own image, not the other way around. He had done it through sheer terror, and who could blame him? Unfortunately he had made too good a job. The god he had invented was just as cruel and careless as man himself. Not a deity to whom one should seriously address a prayer.

Richard Herley

#25. Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.

Johann Arndt

#26. A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.

Clifton Fadiman

#27. Do I strike you as a frivolous man, Kelly?"
I look at him, sitting there in another thousand dollar suit. Pompous? Yes. Self-centered? Yes. Careless? "No.

Bill Blais

#28. God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless

Saint Augustine

#29. If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.

John Of The Cross

#30. Many a man has risen to eminence under the powerful reaction of his mind in fierce counter-agency to the scorn of the unworthy, daily evoked by his personal defects, who with a handsome person would have sunk into the luxury of a careless life under the tranquillizing smiles of continual admiration.

Thomas De Quincey

#31. You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So we've got to simplify our tax code.

Marco Rubio

#32. Careless of books, yet having felt the power
Of Nature, by the gentle agency
Of natural objects, led me on to feel
For passions that were not my own, and think
(At random and imperfectly indeed)
On man, the heart of man, and human life.

William Wordsworth

#33. The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#34. Lucas felt uncommonly depressed and careless. Drunkenness, in a man like August Hay, melts the restraints on cheerfulness. On the contrary with Lucas: he kept up courage consciously. Sap his mind, and the lid was lifted from a cesspool of muddy colors.

John Updike

#35. If anything is to be done, let a man do it, let him attack it vigorously! A careless pilgrim only scatters the dust of his passions more widely.

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