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Careful Quotes (page 29)

Stephen King quote: "It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your..."
It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life. Stephen King
You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception. H. G. Wells
These days law thinks it's about nothin' but laws. Law don't remember it was once handed down from somewhere, that it once meant not just no, but was a way to live and a reason to live that way. Law now thinks nobody but politicians made it or remake it, so maybe it ain't a surprise some people don't care anymore about law, and even some lawmen don't understand the real reason for law. Dean Koontz
Clive Barker quote: "We cry for ourselves, don't we? Not for the dead. The dead are..."
We cry for ourselves, don't we? Not for the dead. The dead are past caring. Clive Barker
Martin Scorsese quote: "Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions."
Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions. Martin Scorsese
Billie Joe Armstrong quote: "I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie..."
I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock] Billie Joe Armstrong
I guess you get all my money, I said. And I'm not even dead. I was trying for a joke, but it came out sounding macabre. Hush, he said. He was still kneeling on the floor. You know I'll always take care of you. I thought, already he's starting to patronize me. Then I thought, already you're starting to get paranoid. Margaret Atwood
Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one. Tom Waits
I know this is probably sort of sudden." The boy hesitated. "But I was wodnering if you would care to go to the movies with me tomorrow night. Beverly Cleary
He looked around when he heard a window-rattling roar. "Earthquake? Volcano? Nuclear war?"Beaver," Peter told him."I don't care if it is Alaska, you don't have beavers big enough to sound like that. Nora Roberts
Problem is, you can’t accept that his relationship had a real short shelf life. You’re like a dog at the dump, baby – you’re just lickin’ at the empty tin can, trying to get more nutrition out of it. And if you’re not careful, that can’s gonna get stuck on your snout forever and make your life miserable. So drop it.” “But I love him.” “So love him.” “But I miss him.” “So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it. Elizabeth Gilbert
Richard Russo quote: "His carefully calculated sincerity is almost entirely..."
His carefully calculated sincerity is almost entirely indistinguishable from the real thing. Richard Russo
O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with Time's deformed hand. Have written strange defeatures in my face. But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice? William Shakespeare
[...] under the guise of caring only for intrinsic values Osmond lived exclusively for the world. Far from being its master as he pretended to be, he was its very humble servant, and the degree of its attention was his only measure of success. He lived with his eye on it from morning till night, and the world was so stupid it never suspected the trick. Everything he did was pose—pose so subtly considered that if one were not on the lookout one mistook it for impulse. Ralph had never met a man... Henry James
The main reason for the terrible cruelty between men today, apart from the absence religion, is still the refined complexity of life which shields people from the consequences of their actions. However cruel Attila, Genghis Khan and their followers may have been, the act of killing people personally, face to face, must have been unpleasant: the wailing relatives and the presence of the corpses. And thus their cruelty was restrained. Nowadays we kill people through such a complex process of... Leo Tolstoy

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