Top 95 Quotes About Recklessness
#1. I wondered whether trusting him was merely unwise or if it crossed the line into recklessness, like lying down for a nap in the middle of a road.
Ransom Riggs
#2. A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
Bernard Crick
#3. We pushed to the edge of recklessness, yet I felt safe.
Ruta Sepetys
#4. I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become necessary because in western developed countries we've become very comfort-addicted.
Sean Penn
#6. Men outlive their love, but they don't outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
George Eliot
#7. The room rang with her voice, then with silence. In the shaded darkness, silence had the quality of a looming dragon. It seemed to roar and the roar to reverberate, to dominate. To escape from it would require a burst of recklessness, even cruelty.
Anita Desai
#8. Because if taken in excess, it causes giddiness, recklessness, and dangerous overconfidence,' said Slughorn. 'Too much of a good thing, you know . . . highly toxic in large quantities. But taken sparingly, and very occasionally . . .
J.K. Rowling
#9. If one Ponders on objects of the sense, there springs Attraction; from attraction grows desire, Desire flames to fierce passion, passion breeds Recklessness; then the memory - all betrayed - Lets noble purpose go, and saps the mind, Till purpose, mind, and man are all undone.
Mahatma Gandhi
#10. Then why?"
"Because you expect me to fail. You expect me to do wrong. To be reckless. To ruin myself."
"Why not work to prove me wrong?"
"But don't you see? I am proving you wrong. If I choose recklessness, where is the failure? If I choose it for myself, you cannot force it upon me.
Sarah MacLean
#11. Recklessness makes you act. Bravery is following through.
Leah Raeder
#12. Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness?
Artur Davis
#13. A species that can blind itself to truth, that can plunge so enthusiastically along roads that lead nowhere but to tragedy, is sometimes amusing in its recklessness...
Dean Koontz
#14. The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.
Louisa May Alcott
#15. In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline. Dionysian; Apollonian. Passion;reason.
Steven Pressfield
#16. I'm thrilled to be taking over Green Arrow. What I adore about the Arrow is his recklessness. He'll shoot off on an impulse, dispatch someone if they deserve it; his heroism is instinctive.
Ann Nocenti
#17. A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#18. We play with enthusiasm and recklessness. We aren't afraid to lose. If we win, great; but win or lose, it is the competition that gives us pleasure.
Joe Paterno
#19. Recklessness, spontaneity didn't really suit her, she couldn't carry if off, the results were never what she hoped for.
David Nicholls
#20. She would love him so hard, so completely, so openly and without fear that the universe would shudder at her recklessness.
Lexi George
#22. Recklessness is par for the course when you're 25.
Susan Minot
#23. Recklessness didn't work out for me in the end."
- Sand dan Glokta
Joe Abercrombie
#24. That there are billions of people over 60kg weight on this planet is recklessness.
Pentti Linkola
#25. Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.
James A. Garfield
#27. Because they were young. Because one is young only once in a life lived only once. Because recklessness is the only fist to throw at nothingness. How much aliveness can one bear?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#28. He could not understand the wild quiver of his heart, nor the following sense of recklessness and grace that lingered after she was gone.
Carson McCullers
#29. One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain
rigor and recklessness
simultaneously.
Carole Maso
#30. With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - recklessness, I suppose.
Emily Browning
#31. This is the story of how my recklessness became my salvation.
Aspen Matis
#32. In your 20s - and these are generalizations of course - I feel like I didn't care about as many things or as many people, or even myself, as much. There's more recklessness and more ruthlessness; you're not as considerate of how things land with other people I think.
Naomi Watts
#33. Freedom is a responsibility to be earned, not a license for recklessness and anarchy. If someday, despite our strongest efforts and our deepest determination, we finally fall, let it be because our enemies finally beat us, not because we beat ourselves.
Dan Wells
#34. the strong feeling beginning to be manifested to Wade was not the fun of matching wits and luck with his antagonists, nor a desire to accumulate money--for his recklessness disproved that--but the liberation of the gambling passion.
Zane Grey
#35. The recklessness with which we sacrifice our sense of decency to maximize profit in the factory farming process sets a pattern for cruelty to our own kind.
Jonathan Kozol
#36. Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given ...
Homer
#37. The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.
Sophocles
#38. Due to the potent combination of my sexual recklessness and the slutty nature of some of the girls I have slept with, I have accumulated enough stories and anecdotes about abortion that they could name a Planned Parenthood clinic after me.
Tucker Max
#39. This is a fine chance to let go, to "win my life by losing it," which means not recklessness but acceptance, not passivity but nonattachment.
Peter Matthiessen
#40. Vlad made a sound too harsh to be a growl. "You won't be satisfied until you've brought me to my knees, is that it?"
"Why not?" It shot out of me with all the recklessness of my still-broken heart. "You brought me to mine.
Jeaniene Frost
#41. I was filled with such a dangerous delicious intoxication that I could have walked straight off the steps into the air, climbing on the strength of my own drunkeness into the stars. And the intoxication, as I knew even then, was the recklessness of infinite possibility.
Doris Lessing
#42. To write one book may be regarded as a misfortune, to write two just looks like recklessness.
James Roberts
#43. To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch, calculated recklessness, a full measure of courage and occasional luck!
Jimmy Doolittle
#44. She laughed at bad jokes, stayed out too late, and overslept too often. Charity Hill loved holidays and she hated budgets and the alarm clock.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
#45. If there were music and movements that embodied the wildness and recklessness and immortality of youth, they were here, on this dance floor. Doneval
Sarah J. Maas
#46. Athens' biggest worry was the sheer recklessness of its own democratic government. A simple majority of the citizenry, urged on and incensed by clever demagogues, might capriciously send out military forces in unnecessary and exhausting adventures.
Thucydides
#47. To avoid the cost incurred in pursuing great things we opt for ease and blithely abandon great things. The sheer recklessness of such a pathetically apathetic trade-off will eventually cost us a life squandered, which in the end is the greatest cost of all.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#48. I admired her lack of compunction, the courage of her bad manners, the energy of simple rage. Throwing a bag of spaghetti had a simplicity to it, a recklessness, a careless grandeur. It got things over with. I was a long way, then, from being able to do anything like it myself.
Margaret Atwood
#49. You are the two halves of a whole. You must be different, like light and shadow- he brings you caution to temper your recklessness, and you bring him recklessness to temper his caution. Without each other you would not function as well as you do. That is what parabatai means.
Cassandra Clare
#50. Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
Franz Grillparzer
#51. Independence is for the very few; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever attempts it even with the best right but without inner constraint proves that he is probably not only strong, but also daring to the point of recklessness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#52. You are heart and recklessness and fire. The drama just came along for the ride.
Chloe Neill
#53. I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.
Freya Stark
#54. Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.
Mahatma Gandhi
#55. That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a horse that's a little too wild for you, so there's this tension between what you can do and what the horse decides it's going to do.
Li-Young Lee
#56. Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify. It can also make them fun to be around.
Bear Grylls
#57. Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
Moliere
#59. Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.
Michael Chabon
#60. Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.
D.H. Lawrence
#61. I'd felt the pop of the needle sliding into my veins, like a fang into flesh. I'd been enveloped in the golden haze where nothing is wrong even when everything is falling apart. A dance with a hypodermic fiend, my hands in the claws of a vulture.
Taylor Rhodes
#62. You'll never meet a guy who avoids recklessness and abandon like I do.
Reki Kawahara
#63. heart she faced the wrenching truth: Impulsiveness and recklessness, her two greatest faults, had brought her to this dire end - the same two character flaws that had
Judith McNaught
#64. There was in him a slumbering spark of sociability which the long Starkfield winters had not yet extinguished. By nature grave and inarticulate, he admired recklessness and gaiety in others and was warmed to the marrow by friendly human intercourse.
Edith Wharton
#65. To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.
James Anthony Froude
#67. Betia laughed a little, shaking her head. She leaned forward and kissed my cheek as she grabbed my hands and pulled me to my feet. Her brown eyes glittered with a devil-may-care recklessness that warmed me to my toes. If it would make her smile that way, I would dance all night.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#68. Sometimes I think it's recklessness but at other times the coincidence of it seems almost supernatural because here in the midst of success comes death
Crystal Evans
#69. You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness.
Don DeLillo
#70. There's a reason for every journey, and mine was prompted by boredom and the recklessness of youth, by a wish to break the bounds of my normal existence and familiarise myself with life and the world at large.
Walter Moers
#71. So Artichoke was a restaurant borne out of impulse and recklessness. Four years on, it's also a testament to how an enterprise started on such a fucked up approach can actually succeed.
Bjorn Shen
#72. I think the future of journalism is going to be a battle between caution and recklessness. And I think a little bit of recklessness is a good thing, as some of the WikiLeaks cables proved.
Alex Gibney
#73. Riding that ridge between reason and recklessness, stillness and speed, is the first, maybe the most important, thing I learned about motorcycles.
Lily Brooks-Dalton
#74. He was full of sly caution and clumsy recklessness. He
Victor Hugo
#75. Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness ... Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?
Joseph N. Welch
#76. The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.
Robert A. Heinlein
#77. An intelligent lady, a little too mature for recklessness, a little too young for caution.
Connie Brockway
#78. We watch Paracelsus in Basle as though seeing a man run headlong toward a precipice. Like an indestructible lunatic, he will do so again and again throughout his life.
Philip Ball
#79. If there's evil in recklessness, there's also evil in banality.
Robert Draper
#80. The important thing is not establishing if you are afraid or not but it's to be able to live with your own fear without being influenced by it. Otherwise it's not courage anymore, but recklessness.
Giovanni Falcone
#82. Here's to responsibility," he toasted. "Twice a week."
"And recklessness every day in between," I emphasized.
He grinned and touched his can to mine.
Stephenie Meyer
#83. Margaret Thatcher was beyond argument a great Prime Minister. Her tragedy is that she may be remembered less for the brilliance of her many achievements than for the recklessness with which she later sought to impose her own increasingly uncompromising views.
Geoffrey Howe
#86. The air smelt of booze, sweat and cheap perfume - redolent of sex and danger. There was a kind of frontier recklessness about the atmosphere, Bond thought, and recognised its allure.
William Boyd
#87. He told himself he would pretend nothing was wrong, but he couldn't fool himself. He could forgive himself for having done something wrong, even something so immoral, so reckless. Harder to live with would be what would come next: living with the knowledge of what he'd done, but not letting on.
Erin O'Riordan
#88. Knowing who you really are and dressing the part
with an air of amused recklessness
is life affirming for you and life enhancing for other people.
Simon Doonan
#89. We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
Toni Morrison
#90. Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.
Barack Obama
#91. A man like that fucks like he rides. With intimidation, recklessness, and unharnessed energy. He's powered by adrenaline and takes what he wants without care.
Pam Godwin
#92. It's a very dangerous state. You are inclined to recklessness and kind of tune out the rest of your life and everything that's been important to you. It's actually not all that pleasurable. I don't know who the hell wants to get in a situation where you can't bear an hour without somebody's company.
Colin Firth
#93. Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of the strong possibilities that they are founded on nothing.
John Ashbery
#94. I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.
Arundhati Roy
#95. There is something about a roused woman: especially if she add to all her other strong passions, the fierce impulses of recklessness and despair; which few men like to provoke. The
Charles Dickens
