Quotes about care
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“He might as well plant an oak in a flower-pot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!”

Heathcliff (Ch. XIV).
Source: Wuthering Heights (1847)
Context: You talk of her mind being unsettled - how the devil could it be otherwise, in her frightful isolation? And that insipid, paltry creature attending her from duty and humanity! From pity and charity. He might as well plant an oak in a flower-pot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!

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“She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy.

I do have a knack for finding great women.”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…

Source: American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

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“I do care about real life. It's just not as interesting as what's in my books.”

Christina Dodd (1957) American writer

Source: Storm of Shadows

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“3) Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.”

Larry Niven (1938) American writer

Niven's Laws

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“You can't be careful on a skateboard.”

Source: It

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“It was hell to be so tired, and still care.”

Lois McMaster Bujold (1949) Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA

Source: Shards of Honour

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“the tigers have found me
and I do not care.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Variant: what you were
will not happen again.
the tigers have found me
and I do not care.

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“What if destiny doesn't care?”

Source: Goliath

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“Something about the way she moves through the world does not lend itself to the care of fragile objects.”

Chelsea Cain (1972) American journalist and writer

Source: Heartsick

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“Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.”

Brian Greene (1963) American physicist

Source: The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

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“Go on caring for me.”

Source: Letters to Milena

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“One has to be careful what one takes when one goes away forever.”

Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) Mexican artist, surrealist painter and novelist

Source: The Hearing Trumpet

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“What do you care more about? The kids or your hair?”

Ridley Pearson (1953) American writer

Source: Disney at Dawn

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“Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.”

Variation: Defend me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies myself The quote has been attributed to Voltaire, who was using it after Villars. Quoted in Connie Robertson, Dictionary of Quotations, 1998
Source: The 48 Laws of Power

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“You have to be careful who you meet. You can’t unmeet them.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

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“Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.”

Tim Gunn (1953) American actor and fashion consultant

Source: Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work