carefulness Quotes

“JUDGE: One man is dead. The life of another is at stake. I urge you to deliberate honestly and thoughtfully. If this is a reasonable doubt - then you must bring me a verdict of ‘not guilty.‘”

“I suspected that each of my teammates hoped as fervently as I that Hall had been careful to weed out clients of dubious ability, and would have the means to protect each of us from one another’s shortcomings.”

“Love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”

“Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.”

“if you’re not careful with your yeses, you start to say no to some very important things without even realizing it.”

“Be careful with your money.”

“We can’t choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.”

“Esperanza and I knew the names of twenty other union members,” . . . “The teachers’ union did not have open meetings. We worked in cells, and communicated by message. Most people knew only four other members by name. This is what I am saying. In Guatemala, you are careful. If you want to change something, you can find yourself dead. This was not the—what do you call? The P.T.A.”

″ If you are not careful in this country, your children will become what you don’t know. ”

“Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.”

“Dumbfounded, I stared at him like an apparition from a past life. He wasn’t supposed to be here, couldn’t be, and yet he was. The wind howled around me, ruffling my hair as it hissed its warnings to tread ever so carefully.”

“No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn’t experience it all. There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That’s how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice.”

“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”

“No, that is the great fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”

“But if planting deadly ferns at poolside was any indication, then it was clear that the designers at Jurassic Park had not been as careful as they should have been.”

“No matter how careful I am, eventually I’ll make another misstep. I am weak. I am fragile. I am mortal.”

“I’ve always given myself in small doses and sometimes nothing at all.”

“They would remain until the bark ran out, then travel north past the wolves’ territory, and perhaps into the faerie lands of Prythian - where no mortals would dare go, not unless they had a death wish.”

“Be careful with whom you associate, especially when you feel emotionally vulnerable, because negative people can steal the dream right out of your heart.”

“Then carefully, tenderly, gently he crept up the trunk to the nest where the little egg slept.

″ Most folks are friendly and nice and wouldn’t hurt a fly. But you have to be careful, just in case.”

“Brother bear was cautious and careful and a little weary of strangers. Sister, on the other hand, wasn’t the least bit wary. She was friendly to a fault. ”

″ ‘There’ll always be a couple bad apples in every barrel.’ That’s the way it is with strangers. Cubs have to be careful because of a few ‘bad apples’.”

“I’ll watch out for trouble in front and back sections by aiming my eyeballs in different directions.”

“I picked out the eggs in a most careful way. I only picked those that I knew were Grade-A. I only took eggs from the very best fowls.”

“He told us we had to be careful about who we told our story to, but he wouldn’t let us hide from it ourselves.”

“I, too, learned, because I followed him in everything, except that I, always more modest and prudent, jumped off halfway down the staircase, or slid down bit by bit, braking constantly.”

“I write down what I observe in my notebooks. I do this for two reasons. The first is that Writing inculcates habits of precision and carefulness. The second is to preserve whatever knowledge I possess for you, the Sixteenth Person.”