Quotes about care
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“Be careful dear that you don’t end up as the queen of a lonely kingdom”
Source: Tempt Me at Twilight
Source: Skeleton Key

Letter to John Quincy Adams (16 June 1816). Adams Papers (microfilm), reel 432, Library of Congress. James H. Hutson (ed.), The Founders on Religion: A Book of Quotations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007, p. 20
1810s
Source: The Portable John Adams

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“If you can't take care of me while I'm alive, you have made me dead anyway.”
Source: Gone Girl

“If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.”

Source: Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
Source: Matagorda/The First Fast Draw

“You don't even know where I'm going."
"I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.”
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Chap. 11, "The Fat Man"
Dialogue between the characters Kasper Gutman (the "fat man") and Sam Spade.
Source: The Maltese Falcon (1930)
Context: "We begin well, sir," the fat man purred … "I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink too much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does. … Well, sir, here's to plain speaking and clear understanding. … You're a close-mouthed man?"
Spade shook his head. "I like to talk."
"Better and better!" the fat man exclaimed. "I distrust a close-mouthed man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says the wrong things. Talking's something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice."

“Never tell your problems to anyone…20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.”
“I dont care who kissed you first as long as I kiss you last.”
Source: I didn't care who kissed you first as long as I kissed you last."
-George from If We Kiss

“We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.”
Source: The Piper's Son


As quoted in How to Be the Employee Your Company Can't Live Without : 18 Ways to Become Indispensable (2006) by Glenn Shepard

Source: The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
“We live in a world with so many dangers that we have to be careful whom we trust.”
Source: Raven's Gate

“I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness.”
letter to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr, from Yosemite Valley (7 October 1874); published in William Federic Badè, The Life and Letters of John Muir http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/life/life_and_letters/default.aspx (1924), chapter 11: On Widening Currents
1870s
Source: Wilderness Essays
Source: The Sociopath Next Door

Source: Sayings of Confucius
Source: I Do -- But I Don't

Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

Source: 1890s, The Mountains of California (1894), chapter 5: The Passes <!-- Terry Gifford, EWDB, page 328 -->
Context: Accidents in the mountains are less common than in the lowlands, and these mountain mansions are decent, delightful, even divine, places to die in, compared with the doleful chambers of civilization. Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain-passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action. Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, they cure a thousand.

“The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.”
Source: The Square Root of Wonderful

Variant: Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch.1

“I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.”
Source: Red Glove

“Life was going on, and no one but a handful of people cared if I lived or died.”
Source: Pale Demon

Variant: Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.
Source: Margaret Thatcher

“Shiloh isn’t haunted – men are haunted.
Shiloh doesn’t care.”
Source: Red Dragon