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Quotes About Concerns

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
~ Plato
Instead of the White House, why not take our visiting space alien to ComicCon. We'd have legitimate concerns that nobody would notice an actual alien camouflaged among those pretending to be one. The upside? Our alien visitor phones home and instead reports—"They're just like us!
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
All music industry places are the same, really. They have the same dynamics and the same concerns and the same needs.
~ Jeff Buckley
One of the biggest misconceptions about homeschooling, and the ones my friends seemed most concerned about, is that children won't socialise and will have a limited ability to communicate when they get older. I can honestly say this is a myth.
~ Stacey Solomon
With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.
~ Ian MacKaye
Trump is beset by clear and alarming conflicts between his international business concerns and the national interest.
~ Joy Reid
Even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.
~ Christopher Paolini
Then Valdr showed them a nest of sleeping starlings, and Eragon could feel their dreams flickering in their minds, fast as the blink of an eye. At first, Valdr's emotion was one of contempt - the starlings' dreams seemed tiny, petty, and inconsequential - but then his mood changed and became warm and sympathetic, and even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.
~ Christopher Paolini
You're angry with the Empire for treating people unfairly, a legitimate concern, but a government cannot please everyone. There will inevitably be arguments and conflicts
~ Christopher Paolini
Isn't this the whole meaning of life in this world: To choose between bondage to the material world and believing that your life comes from those many forces, , or to choose true life and to believe that all your needs and all your concerns come only from the one Source of All Life.
~ Tzvi Freeman
No temamos nunca ni a los ladrones ni a los asesinos: esos son los peligros exteriores, los pequeños peligros. Temámonos a nosotros mismos. Las preocupaciones, esas son los ladrones: los vicios, esos son los asesinos. Los grandes peligros existen dentro de nosotros. ¿Qué importa lo que amenaza a nuestra cabeza o a nuestra bolsa? Pensemos con preferencia en lo que amenaza a nuestra alma.
~ Victor Hugo
Mais, après avoir accordé un sourire à ce roman d'autrefois, il revint aussitôt à l'unique objet de ses préoccupations actuelles.
~ Léon Tolstoï
She was using a psychological technique called reframing: taking a concept and relabelling it so as to alter its meaning. She reframed what I perceived as neglect and labelled my concerns "overprotective.
~ Catherine Gildiner
But sometimes I worried that marriage was just a series of these small deflations, our dreams floating around invisibly near the ceiling like escaped gas.
~ Catherine Newman
Why does it seem like there's something the matter with everything? Because there is something wrong with everything!"[2]
~ Gerrit Dawson
When it comes to people's safety, money wins out every time
~ Gil Scott-Heron
In the same way that individual women are often underestimated, a movement of women is also understimated, but the truth is that, if people realize someone is willing to talk about these deep and daily concerns, they show up.
~ Gloria Steinem
We've all been guilty at one point or another in our careers of boasting of perfect hindsight. It's a terrible sin. If you don't make sure your questions and concerns are acted upon, it doesn't count.
~ Jack Welch
She knew the worries that came to the fore at night were the ones you had to pay attention to, for they blurred reasoned thought, sucked clarity from any consideration of one's situation, and could lead a mind around in circles, leaving one drained and ill-tempered. And if there was no one close with whom to discuss those concerns, they grew in importance in the imagination, whether they were rooted in good sense or not.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
A curious leveling takes place: the common people learn words and ideas hitherto not familiar and not interesting and discuss them like intellectuals while others neglect their usual concerns - art, philosophy, scholarship - because there is only one compelling topic, the revolutionary Idea.
~ Jacques Barzun
Other people, too, worried about this new gap between the speeds of travel and messaging. An important London banker told Babbage he disapproved: "It will enable our clerks to plunder us, and then be off to Liverpool on their way to America at the rate of twenty miles an hour." Babbage could only express the hope that science might yet find a remedy for the problem it had created.
~ James Gleick
While I don't think President Trump is going to round LGBTQ people up, I do think the concerns from the community about his vision are not only understandable but warranted.
~ Sarah McBride
Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
~ Sandra Day O'Connor
I loved the idea of understanding people, places, concepts, concerns and large international questions. And being the one to go out and get the answers.
~ Abigail Spanberger