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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
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
There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general:(1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction;(2) cowardice, which leads to capture;(3) a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults;(4) a delicacy of honor which is sensitive to shame;(5) over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble. -- Sun Tzu
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom. -- Toni Morrison
That there are billions of people over 60kg weight on this planet is recklessness. -- Pentti Linkola
I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings. -- William Sloane Coffin
The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness. -- Robert A. Heinlein
In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline. Dionysian; Apollonian. Passion;reason. -- Steven Pressfield
I do not set my life at a pin's fee, And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself? -- William Shakespeare
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. -- Bear Grylls
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
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
There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults; a delicacy of honour, which is sensitive to shame; over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble. -- Sun Tzu
I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites. -- Nelson Mandela
The great mathematician fully, almost ruthlessly, exploits the domain of permissible reasoning and skirts the impermissible. That his recklessness does not lead him into a morass of contradictions is a miracle in itself: certainly it is hard to believe that our reasoning power was brought, by Darwin's process of natural selection, to the perfection which it seems to possess. -- Eugene Wigner
It may well be a sign of the decadence of the Church and the failure of Christianity that gifts have to be coaxed out of people, and that often they will not give at all unless they get something for their money in the way of entertainment or of goods. Giving which is real giving has a certain recklessness in it. -- William Barclay
So if we announce we're going to have a no-fly zone, and others have said this. Hillary Clinton is also for it. It is a recipe for disaster. It's a recipe for World War III. We need to confront Russia from a position of strength, but we don't need to confront Russia from a point of recklessness that would lead to war. -- Rand Paul
If I talk about the bad old days of crystal meth for too long, I start getting like, "Oh...speed...that was delicious..." But in general, I don't so much. Or wait - maybe the recklessness just occurs in a different sphere so it doesn't look like bottoming out. But really - isn't trying to have a baby sort of a reckless thing to do? -- Michelle Tea
I am asking my Attorney General to create a special unit of federal prosecutors and leading state attorneys general to expand our investigations into the abusive lending and packaging of risky mortgages that led to the housing crisis. This new unit will hold accountable those who broke the law, speed assistance to homeowners, and help turn the page on an era of recklessness that hurt so many Americans. -- Barack Obama
Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A time of historic change is no time for recklessness. -- George H. W. Bush
True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives. -- Moliere
Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability. -- Franz Grillparzer
The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness. -- Frederick William Robertson
Men outlive their love, but they don't outlive the consequences of their recklessness. -- George Eliot
I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings. -- William Sloane Coffin
You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness. -- Don DeLillo
An intelligent lady, a little too mature for recklessness, a little too young for caution. -- Connie Brockway
To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair. -- James Anthony Froude
With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - recklessness, I suppose. -- Emily Browning
The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes. -- Louisa May Alcott
One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously. -- Carole Maso
I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all. -- Freya Stark
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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