Jonathan Swift Quotes

The more careless, the more modish.

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• Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Careless

• One of the things about the six sixes, which really comes over me every time somebody asks a question or says to me, 'I've just seen them,' or people always ask me about it... It makes me feel that's the only thing I've ever done in the history of cricket.

  

  Garfield Sobers
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• She'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding.

  

  Billy Joel
  • She
  • Laugh
  • Careless

• I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Enough
  • Littles
  • Drunk

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

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Girl
  • Careless

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

  

  William Watson
  • Hate
  • Light
  • Choices

• Well,- said her daddy,- your careless heedlessness has almost lost me my life. I am now going to give you a spanking. And he did and so dinner was a snuffling red-eyed meal filled with cold looks and long silences and the cheese souffle, which was delicious.

  

  Betty MacDonald
  • Lost
  • My Life
  • Careless

• People who share a muddled, careless, or deceitful attitude towards gathering evidence often find themselves drawn to eachother's fantasies. If you believe one wrong or strange thing, you are more likely to believe another.

  

  Damian Thompson
  • Strange
  • Themselves
  • Attitudes

• I wanted him to see in that plate of pasta everything that, by leaving, he would no longer be able to look at, or touch, or caress, listen to, smell: never again.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Smell
  • Careless
  • Pasta

• You can never hope to recapture the first fine careless rapture as the poet put it, but it stays with you like a good acid trip.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Fine
  • Careless
  • Rapture

• Take good care of the things you have. Careless people spend more for a given standard of living.

  

  Catherine Crook de Camp
  • Care
  • Given
  • Standards

• We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources of nature, squandering both as if there were no end to the gifts of earth and sea and sky.

  

  Catherine Crook de Camp
  • Earth
  • Sea
  • Sky

• I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Comedy
  • Air
  • Difference

• The benefit of film is that you're shooting something for an intense period of time - and then it's over, and you move on to something else. In TV, you're doing the same thing over and over.

  

  Nat Faxon
  • Time
  • Film
  • Period

• Get involved in an issue that you're passionate about. It almost doesn't matter what it is ... We give too much of our power away, to the professional politicians, to the lobbyists, to cynicism. And our democracy suffers as a result.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • Democracy
  • Professional

• I love silence. But I usually only listen to that when I'm sleeping.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Love
  • Silence
  • Listen

• One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no unhappiness. One leaf left all by itself in the air and it does not speak of loneliness or death. One leaf and it spends itself in swaying mildly in the breeze.

  

  David Ignatow
  • Despair
  • Loneliness
  • Breeze

• The problem is that real change takes a long time, while life hits us right away, now, with all its contradictions.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Change
  • Problem
  • Hits

• The more careless, the more modish.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Careless
  • Modish