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  • Margaret Thatcher was beyond argument a great Prime Minister. Her tragedy is that she may be remembered less for the brilliance of her many achievements than for the recklessness with which she later sought to impose her own increasingly uncompromising views.

  • In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline. Dionysian; Apollonian. Passion;reason.

  • We play with enthusiasm and recklessness. We aren't afraid to lose. If we win, great; but win or lose, it is the competition that gives us pleasure.

  • There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults; a delicacy of honour, which is sensitive to shame; over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.

    Art   War   Men  
    Sun Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, Booklassic
  • Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness?

  • Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness....Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?

    War   Thinking   Done  
    Statements to Joseph McCarthy on the 30th day of the Army - McCarthy hearings, June 9, 1954.
  • I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.

  • Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.

    Love   Symbolism   Want  
  • We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

    Toni Morrison (2014). “The Bluest Eye”, p.138, Random House
  • If I talk about the bad old days of crystal meth for too long, I start getting like, "Oh...speed...that was delicious..." But in general, I don't so much. Or wait - maybe the recklessness just occurs in a different sphere so it doesn't look like bottoming out. But really - isn't trying to have a baby sort of a reckless thing to do?

    Baby   Long   Waiting  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.

    Frederick William Robertson (1858). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series”, p.160
  • Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.

  • Vlad made a sound too harsh to be a growl. "You won't be satisfied until you've brought me to my knees, is that it?" "Why not?" It shot out of me with all the recklessness of my still-broken heart. "You brought me to mine.

    Heart   Broken   Sound  
  • It may well be a sign of the decadence of the Church and the failure of Christianity that gifts have to be coaxed out of people, and that often they will not give at all unless they get something for their money in the way of entertainment or of goods. Giving which is real giving has a certain recklessness in it.

    Real   People   Giving  
  • Love of goodness without love of learning degenerates into simple-mindedness. Love of knowledge without love of learning degenerates into utter lack of principle. Love of faithfulness without love of learning degenerates into injurious disregard of consequences. Love of uprightness without love of learning degenerates into harshness. Love of courage without love of learning degenerates into insubordination. Love of strong character without love of learning degenerates into mere recklessness.

    Love   Strong   Learning  
  • In your 20s - and these are generalizations of course - I feel like I didn't care about as many things or as many people, or even myself, as much. There's more recklessness and more ruthlessness; you're not as considerate of how things land with other people I think.

    Thinking   Land   People  
    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.

    Loner   Want   Feels  
  • I was filled with such a dangerous delicious intoxication that I could have walked straight off the steps into the air, climbing on the strength of my own drunkeness into the stars. And the intoxication, as I knew even then, was the recklessness of infinite possibility.

    Stars   Air   Climbing  
    Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • Due to the potent combination of my sexual recklessness and the slutty nature of some of the girls I have slept with, I have accumulated enough stories and anecdotes about abortion that they could name a Planned Parenthood clinic after me.

    Girl   Names   Abortion  
  • The contrast between the two, the sweetness and the badness, wrenches the heart of the lover as such sweetness on its own would not, and the lover shudders all the more at dread of the beloved's recklessness, for the sake of the sweetness that is there, and the shudder only makes more violent the shuddering that announces love.

    Heart   Two   Sake  
    Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.295, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.

    Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.486, Best Books on
  • I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

    Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.47, Pan Macmillan
  • I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become necessary because in western developed countries we've become very comfort-addicted.

    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously.

    Writing   Two   Brain  
  • Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.

    Revenge   Men   Risk  
    D.H. Lawrence (2015). “D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader”, p.181, Courier Dover Publications
  • Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.

    Zoos   Animal   Dams  
    Michael Chabon (2011). “Wonder Boys”, p.42, Open Road Media
  • Knowing who you really are and dressing the part -- with an air of amused recklessness -- is life affirming for you and life enhancing for other people.

    Air   Knowing   People  
    Simon Doonan (2009). “Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You”, p.24, Simon and Schuster
  • Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.

    Men   Matrimony   Repent  
    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 495-500, Les Femmes Savantes (1672), V. 5, 1922.
  • A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.

    Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.87, University of Chicago Press
  • The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.

    Children   Pride   Vanity  
    Sophocles (1977). “The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version”, Harcourt
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