#careless

How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#despair #ignorance #insight #loneliness #love

Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street. ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#carelessly #change #cigarette #especially #even

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. ↗

— Jane Austen

#boast #carelessness #deceitful #humility #indirect

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#ethical #everywhere #great #increasingly #industrial

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#careless #daylight #difference #gambler #his

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#become #billion #careless #four #galaxy

Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf. ↗

— Earl Derr Biggers

#dinner #excellent #make #shepherd #wolf

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

— Mark Twain

#dress #keep #soul #tidy #will

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#build #builders #carelessly #cheaply #eventually

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

— Albert Einstein

#careless #important #important matters #matters #small