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Careless Quotes

For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned. Matthew 12:37

For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned. Matthew 12:37

Beth Moore (2008). “Believing God Day by Day: Growing Your Faith All Year Long”, p.30, B&H Publishing Group

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

Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause.

Harry Vardon (2001). “The Complete Golfer”, p.163, The Minerva Group, Inc.

Panic leads to carelessness, and carelessness creates accidents.

Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver”, p.34, Scholastic UK

The greatest sin is carelessness.

"Playboy Interview: Linda Ronstadt". Interview with Jean Vallely, www.ronstadt-linda.com. April, 1980.

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

Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.42, Courier Corporation

Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.

Lauren Oliver (2012). “Pandemonium (Delirium Trilogy 2)”, p.240, Hachette UK

Careless talk costs lives.

Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.17, Egmont UK

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

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1989). “Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited”

Opportunity is coy, is swift, is gone, before the slow, the unobservant, the indolent, or the careless can seize her.

Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.97, e-artnow

Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.

Laurie R. King (2005). “Locked Rooms: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes”, p.279, Bantam

Trust is a careless pursuit.

Lauren Kate (2012). “Lauren Kate: Fallen & Torment”, p.131, Random House

The more careless, the more modish.

1738 Polite Conversation, dialogue 1.

Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.

Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher