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Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide. -- Honore de Balzac
Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence. -- James Anthony Froude
Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge. -- Benjamin Franklin
Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have. -- Victor Serge
When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep. -- Billy Sunday
More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause. -- Harry Vardon
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. -- Oscar Wilde
With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - recklessness, I suppose. -- Emily Browning
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. -- Samuel Johnson
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. -- Jane Austen
When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God. -- Luis Palau
That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together. -- Noel Coward
Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness. -- Tamsin Greig
Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit. -- Lois Wyse
Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous. -- Adlai Stevenson I
If you will fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you; depend upon it. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled. -- Henry David Thoreau
Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself. -- Sydney J. Harris
I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion. -- J. C. Ryle
Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already. -- Gautama Buddha
It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit. -- Socrates
Carelessness was once something to be owned. They wore it around their necks as they joined the springtime breeze while ducking in and out of the forest believing their fairy tale. -- A. Lynn
We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither. -- Calvin Coolidge
By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction. -- William Osler
Demanding domestic security in times of war invites carelessness in preserving civil liberties and the right of privacy. Frequently the people are only too anxious for their freedoms to be sacrificed on the altar of authoritarianism thought to be necessary to remain safe and secure. -- Ron Paul
It would have been the easiest thing in the world for us to build those emplacements under the guise of something totally different and they would have never been discovered. The amazing thing was that they weren't discovered earlier. It was a question of carelessness, lack of foresight. -- Fidel Castro
It matters whether you see yourself as someone who is capable of effecting change or whether you see yourself as someone whose voice does not count. It matters whether you treat yourself with reverence or with carelessness. Every bit of work you do on yourself matters. Every time you choose love, it matters. -- Geneen Roth
And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this electric feeling inside of them, which matched the feelings in the girls, that they were all ascending, moving into a future that could only improve them, and I wondered what it was like - the miracle, the stupidity of feeling that. -- Peter Cameron
Overconfidence precedes carelessness. -- Toba Beta
The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness. -- Arthur Baer
Wape watoto uhuru wa mahesabu, lakini si uhuru wa shaghalabaghala. -- Enock Maregesi
Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight. -- Criss Jami
Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations. -- Aesop
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when someone says "I don't care" it's because he cares, strongly so -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
The last shall not become the first if the last is lagging behind. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
I'm so careless that now i don't even care if i cared about you. -- Me
I'm so careless that now i don't even care if i cared for you. -- Vatsal
Being cautious ain't merely look after myself, but also keep me away from others' carelessness. -- Toba Beta
Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
When an illiterate gets angry, you'll get to understand that calmness is probably a sign of education. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
The true creator-self is a light-at-heart and care-free child, who accesses destiny as a simple act of joyful play. -- Bryant McGill
Loving is like any other art-craft where the masters have carefully practiced and where the novices have languished in their carelessness. -- Bryant McGill
Repetition for no reason is a sign of carelessness or pretentiousness, but there are plenty of good reasons to repeat words and phrases. -- Steven Millhauser
Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression. -- James E. Faust
If God created great things with a point of vulnerability, it would lie in the reality that great things die in the hands of great ignorance. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness. This relates to respect for each other and carelessness is personally offensive. -- Jonathan Ive
I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself. -- Rosamund Lupton
The pity is not that there is a myth of Sylvia Plath but that the myth is not simply that of an enormously gifted poet whose death came carelessly, by mistake, and too soon. -- A. Alvarez
Many of us think in terms in parental determinism: 'If I push all the right buttons my kids are going to turn out OK.' I want to instill in myself and my people a wonderful dose, not of carelessness, but of God's sovereignty. He knows the hairs on your kids' heads. -- Kevin DeYoung
the greatest sin is carelessness. -- Linda Ronstadt
Revival brings back a holy shock to apathy and carelessness. -- Winkie Pratney
To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness. -- Malachy McCourt
Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness. -- Madame de Stael
All deaths before the age of 100 are accidental, caused by carelessness or thoughtlessness. -- Chiyo Uno
how do I become like this? by carelessness,and lack of knowledge about me. -- lity munshi
What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness. -- Jonathan Ive
... there can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself. -- M. F. K. Fisher
I try to be a careful person. Most of the time my carelessness is completely unintentional. -- David Levithan
An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty. -- Eric Maisel
Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous. -- Jean de la Bruyere
With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. -- Jane Austen
That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures. -- Sergei Lukyanenko
No; they nearly drowned you, and not even on purpose but only through carelessness. I am not letting them have you back," Temeraire said." -- Naomi Novik
There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence. -- Charles Caleb Colton
... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever. -- David Wong
The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness. -- Patanjali
The cancer in me became an awareness of the cancer that is everywhere. The cancer of cruelty, the cancer of carelessness, the cancer of greed. -- Eve Ensler
Three enemies that will weaken your ministry over time: Self-indulgence, bitterness, and carelessness. Strong people discipline their desires, restrain their reactions, and keep their commitments. -- Rick Warren
Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from...the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. -- Daniel Webster
Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy. -- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an unfinished state is even more reprehensible. -- Walter J. Phillips
It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the pain of suffering causes the greatest fear. -- Gautama Buddha
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought. -- George Santayana
I never cared, I was careless, Fear bein afraid or maybe I'm afraid to be fearless. Or fear bein' fearless but fearful, So even in my carelessness...gotta be careful. -- Joe Budden
kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The throbbing habits of assumption tinted with malice lead to decisions and actions that drum out faith, trust and respect towards a crashing carelessness and uselessness. Be effective by discarding sneaking suspicions. -- Angelica Hopes
The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones . . . -- Andy Warhol
An affected laugh shows lack of self-respect in a man and lewdness in a woman. It is carelessness to go about with one's hands inside the slits in the sides of his hakama. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Was he a pleasant man hiding behind a mask of seeming carelessness or an unpleasant man hiding behind a mask of charm & smiles? Or like most humans, was he a dizzying mix of contradictory charactersticks? -- Mary Balogh
The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull others into a state of carelessness while they pick their pockets. -- Napoleon Hill

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