“ Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking. ”
- John Maynard Keynes- Copy
- 899
“ Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. ”
- William Butler Yeats- Copy
- 2.9K
“ I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12. ”
- Gail Porter- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. ”
- Graham Greene- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless. ”
- Philip Green- Copy
- 710
“ The fans and the players cheered all they did see, But not everyone present reacted with glee. Reckless endangerment! the DA spoke stern. I recommend jail-there, a lesson he'd learn! ”
- Phyllis Orlikoff Flug- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
- 2.1K
“ There is danger in reckless change; but greater danger in blind conservatism. ”
- Henry George- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. ”
- Marquis de Vauvenargues- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes. ”
- Desiderius Erasmus- Copy
- 1.6K
“ One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy. ”
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Courage is rarely reckless or foolish… courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced. ”
- Margaret Truman- Copy
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“ She prized the frank, the open-hearted, the eager character beyond all others. Warmth and enthusiasm did captivate her still. She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
- 3.8K
“ We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result. ”
- Sandra Day O’Connor- Copy
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“ The financial condition of the Erie at this time manifested the beginning of that general policy of improvidence and recklessness which afterward, for nearly a generation and a half, made the company a speculative football in some of the most disreputable games of Wall Street stock-jobbers. ”
- John Moody- Copy
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“ I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint. ”
- Hesiod- Copy
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“ The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control. ”
- James William Fulbright- Copy
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“ We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
- 2.2K
“ To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism — this is the art of living. ”
- Jean de La Fontaine- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all. ”
- Ouida- Copy
- 1.9K
“ In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit. ”
- Miyamoto Musashi- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I love Italian opera — it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking. ”
- John Maynard Keynes- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. ”
- William Butler Yeats- Copy
- 3.6K
“ I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12. ”
- Gail Porter- Copy
- 642
“ Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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