Quotes About Thoughtless People

#1. The self-taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers; and, besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

Mark Twain

#2. What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.

Shawn Conners

#3. God goes with thoughtless people.

Robert Walser

#4. One of the things he likes about Justineau is her seriousness. He frigging flatout hates frivolous, thoughtless people who dance across the surface of the world without looking down.

M.R. Carey

#5. [I am not] one of those thoughtless people who always uncritically accept what is new as necessarily better.

Pope Benedict XVI

#6. The coma ward was boring yet difficult. Like golf.

Belinda Bauer

#7. When a man plays with your heart it is for one of two reasons: He knows he can or he is undecided.

Shannon L. Alder

#8. Try to understand that there is more thoughtlessness than malice in the world. People are not out to offend you deliberately and maliciously. But all of us are thoughtless at times and do not readily realize that our words and actions are going to hurt people.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

#9. Bright pledge of peace and sunshine! the sure tie Of thy Lord's hand, the object of His eye! When I behold thee, though my light be dim, Distinct, and low, I can in thine see Him Who looks upon thee from His glorious throne, And minds the covenant between all and One.

Henry Vaughan

#10. Today when two people decide upon a thoughtless and precipitate abbreviation of the physical space between them, they think, at least at that moment, that they're mutually attracted and drawn together by an overwhelming force.

Wislawa Szymborska

#11. ... We also have friends among the railroad men, and they tell us that so far the Germans of the garrison haven't dared touch the pumpkins. They've blocked the line and have brought in a team of mine detectors from Cracow. They're more worried about the pumpkins than about the car you stole.

Primo Levi

#12. We are a nation conceived, born and nurtured by faith ... Our faith is declared in our Constitution, on our currency and in our lives.

Bob Dole

#13. An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

#14. Why do people feel guilty about TV? What is wrong with it? Just this: it shuts out all the wonderful things of which the mind is capable, leaving it drugged in a state of thoughtless stupor.

Hugh Nibley

#15. Strange that one man's actions could touch so many other people, like a single, thoughtless breath of wind coming in an open window and blowing the playing cards every which way.

Karleen Koen

#16. So thoughtless awareness is the first beautiful state you have to achieve. That will give you peace and a witness state to enjoy the drama of life, to enjoy the different varieties of people, while you will be growing within yourself.

Nirmala Srivastava

#17. At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake".

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#18. When all the people in the world become technology and technology becomes the people, we shall see a new world!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#19. What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

Gertrude Stein

#20. I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

Taylor Swift

#21. Sometimes people say unkind or thoughtless things, and when they do, it is best to be a little hard of hearing - to tune out and not snap back in anger or impatience.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#22. Young people are thoughtless as a rule.

Homer

#23. Varian, please. I didn't mean what I said.'
'Of course you didn't,' he said snidely. 'No one ever does. People always speak without thought. But it's amazing how much damage thoughtless words can wreak, isn't it?

Kinley MacGregor

#24. In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It's hard to shake those sort of narratives.

Ben Affleck

#25. With thoughtless and impatient hands We tangle up the plans The Lord hath wrought. And when we cry in pain He saith, "Be quiet, man, while I untie the knot." (Author unknown, in Jack M. Lyon et al., Best-Loved Poems of the LDS People [1996], 304)

Boyd K. Packer

#26. Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.

Richard Mitchell

#27. If 'Obama-care' becomes fully implemented in 2014, it's going to bankrupt states.

Lindsey Graham

#28. The economy is a thoughtless weather system- and nothing more. Some joke on the people, to give them such a thing

Kurt Vonnegut

#29. Of course China is an important new market for Tod's, and of course we need to succeed commercially. But I believe the way to do that is not to aim to deliver results in the short term by thoughtless expansion, but instead to explain to the Chinese people what our brand is really about.

Diego Della Valle

#30. Do you want some of this cheese, or shall we just go walking?

Pamela Dean

#31. We cannot foresee what the Lord has in mind for us. Our only course of action is to be prepared and worthy for whatever he requires. We must govern our actions every day with our future in mind.

M. Russell Ballard