#careless

A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find. ↗

— James Stephens

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

— Luke Ford

#careless #i #looking #looking back #opinions

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

— Wilson Mizner

#careless #efforts #exhausts #flattery #hate

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#carelessness #like #looks #lose #may

A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house. ↗

— Ben Jonson

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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

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

— A. R. Ammons

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

— Mark Twain

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The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness. ↗

— Arthur Baer

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Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.' ↗