For want of a nail the shoe was lost for want of a shoe the horse was lost and for want of a horse the rider was lost being overtaken and slain by the enemy all for want of care about a horseshoe nail.
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...
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Margaret Atwood
I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it did not care a whit about the hopes and reams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.
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Khaled Hosseini
I wept for my family, all if us, my beautiful, idyllic, lost family. I wept for our excesses, our delusions and inconsistencies; not that we had cared too much or too little, although both were true, but that we had let such extraordinary care be...
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Brooke Hayward
The true creator-self is a light-at-heart and care-free child, who accesses destiny as a simple act of joyful play.
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Bryant McGill
Wielding your words cavalierly can inadvertently lop off someone’s ego.
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Khang Kijarro Nguyen
More Quotes By Benjamin Franklin
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
