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carelessness Quotes

15 of the best book quotes about carelessness
01
“JUROR #7: Supposin’ we take five minutes? So what? Let’s take an hour. The ball game doesn’t start till eight o’clock.”
02
“Four hundred vertical feet above, where the summit was still washed in bright sunlight under an immaculate cobalt sky, my compadres dallied to memorialize their arrival at the apex of the planet, unfurling flags and snapping photos, using up precious ticks of the clock.”
03
″‘Yes, but just don’t get careless,’ said Mrs. Fox. ‘You know they’ll be...‘”
04
“If you must be careless with your possessions, let it be in connection with material things.”
05
“Their Midwest driving skills were no match for a Miami Cuban woman with good medical insurance driving a car she didn’t care about.”
06
“We are all vulnerable in love. We are more emotionally naked with those we love and sometimes, inevitably, we hurt each other with careless words or actions.”
07
“Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect.”
08
“Don’t bother, sweetling, Tyrion thought, swirling the wine in the cup. He cares not a whit about carvings. The eyes he boasts of are his own. What he means is that he was watching, that he knew we were here the moment we passed through the gates.”
09
“-instances of the people losing their liberty by their own carelessness and the ambition of a few. We are cautioned . . . against faction and turbulence. I acknowledge that licentiousness is dangerous, and that it ought to be provided against.”
10
“I don’t care.”
11
“Never mind the danger, never mind what his mother thought. This was living. This was what he wanted to do. On and on and on.”
12
″...I was walking along and I guess I got careless. I guess I got gawking at dasies and not looking where I was walking...”
13
“I was carelessly unwrapped like a gift no one wanted and forced to sit, my arms clasped about my knees. My captors then ignored me. They hadn’t any reason to worry about my escaping. There was no place to go.”
14
“All the world’s misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.”
15
“No...but God bring misfortune to him who is so careless about his self-control as to prattle when he should hold his peace”
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