Top 376 Careless Quotes & Sayings

We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.

A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.

The Creator is not a careless mechanic.

There's a fine line between being careful and careless.

Life is so short, it seems careless not to use it all.

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters told us that Careless Talk costs Lives. It is equally true that Careless Lives cost Talk. Our careless lives set the outer world talking; and we give them grounds for talking in a way that throws doubt on the truth of Christianity itself.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

You're a rotten driver,' I protested. 'Either you ought to be more careful or you oughtn't to drive at all.' 'I am careful.' 'No, you're not.' 'Well, other people are,' she said lightly. 'What's that got to do with it?' 'They'll keep out of my way,' she insisted. 'It takes two to make an accident.' 'Suppose you met somebody just as careless as yourself.' 'I hope I never will,' she answered. 'I hate careless people. That's why I like you.' Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her.

A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility.

Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.

I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired.

I can't be careless with the ball.

Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.

Art is everywhere you look for it, hail the twinkling stars for they are God's careless splatters

Highways are full of careless drivers who are always too close in front of you.

There is a difference between being straightforward and careless.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.

Trust is a careless pursuit at best. At worst, it's a good way to get yourself killed.

Careless talk costs lives.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

If you make a careless choice, you can really ruin things and it can take awhile for them to repair.

She [Hillary Clinton] was extremely careless with handling national security information.If she were just an ordinary person, she would be denied a top security clearance because she has proved in her past acts that she is extremely careless in handling national security information.

Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's next to the poem, almost every word has got to be almost exactly right. In the novel you can be careless but in the short story you can't. I mean by that the good short stories like Chekhov wrote. That's why I rate that second - it's because it demands a nearer absolute exactitude. You have less room to be slovenly and careless. There's less room in it for trash.

I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

The first definition of gross negligence that comes up when you take out the legal dictionary is being extremely careless. The minute you say someone is extremely careless you are saying they're grossly negligent.

Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.

Dear God, teach me to be careless.

Keen at the start, but careless at the end.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

People get careless when they're feeling safe.

As an actor, I am careless with the way I look on screen.

Even the good can become careless without the Lord's being there to chasten.

Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.

Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.

There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.

When you're very successful, you become careless and try to turn many things into routine.

If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading.

Fearless people,Careless needle.Harsh words spoken,And lives are broken.

You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.

Fearless doesn't mean careless. There is a thin line between fearless and careless. I think we need to play fearless.

I'm still very careless about my public persona. Not careless so to speak but I'm not one for fame. I think fame is the worst part about it.

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall.

Mnemosyne, one must admit, has shown herself to be a very careless girl.

We hold our hate too choice a thing, for light and careless lavishing.

Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.

Waste in all its forms is to be abhorred... I deplore giving money to an institution that is careless in its expenditures.

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

Where once my careless childhood strayed, / A stranger yet to pain.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

Trust is a careless pursuit.

As Nature is always careless and indifferent Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty.

Cheap fish has usually been caught in careless ways.

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.