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Quotes About Concern

She told me that she did not like the idea of your being in that house all by yourself, and that she thought you took too much strong tea. In fact she wants me to advise you if possible to give up the tea and the very late hours.
~ Bram Stoker
I told her how anxious I was about Jonathan, and then she tried to comfort me. Well, she succeeded somewhat, for, though sympathy can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
~ Bram Stoker
I am rather of the opinion that in England a gentleman's dreams are his own private concern. I fancy there is a law in that effect and, if there is not, why, Parliament should certainly be made to pass one immediately! It ill becomes another man to invite himself into them.
~ Susanna Clarke
Her brows furrowed. "Where in the world were you? Is something amiss? Something more, I mean?" "Nae for me. For ye, well, it could be. I meant to wait until ye had yer life free from Vale, until ye had choices, real choices, in front of ye again. But I love ye, and I have for some time now. If I dunnae tell ye how I feel right now, then I'm liable to shout it out loud the next time I set eyes on ye.
~ Suzanne Enoch
Teach us to care and not to care
~ T.S. Eliot
And in short, I was afraid.
~ T.S. Eliot
We haven't seen him for nearly eight years; And to tell the truth, now that we've seen him, We're a little worried about his health. He doesn't seem to be . . . quite himself.
~ T.S. Eliot
If someone had told her that she would be transported to what was for all purposes a magical land, where history could be rewritten at a whim, or people could suddenly be shrunk to the size of poppy seeds, but that at least for this moment, her most pressing concern would have been the absence of cigarettes, she would have thought them mad.
~ Tad Williams
Morocco, the lack of safety was an energizing force, but at the same time it was a constant concern. I had seen more accidents than I could count: car wrecks with people half dead lying on the ground, building sites where workmen had tumbled from scaffolding, children maimed by fireworks on a Sunday afternoon. For the first time in my life I became completely alert. In the West, you can drift from day to day in the knowledge that the society will protect you and your children.
~ Tahir Shah
I love you, if you get yourself killed, I will never forgive you.
~ Tamora Pierce
She could not leave him hanging like this. "If you were hurt, I need to know." It was a rule somewhere, in the good-guy handbook.
~ Tara Janzen
Lo único cierto era el peso en la boca del estómago la sospecha física de que algo no andaba bien, de que casi nunca había andando bien.
~ Julio Cortazar
pero se le veía preocupado ya por la proximidad del final, algo que ocurre, según nos dijo, no cuando la edad te lo indica sino cuando los amigos empiezan a dejarte solo.
~ Julio Llamazares
As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
~ Julius Caesar
The survival of our wildlife is a matter of grave concern to all of us in Africa. These wild creatures amid the wild places they inhabit are not only important as a source of wonder and inspiration but are an integral part of our natural resources and of our future livelihood and well-being.
~ Julius K. Nyerere
I don't think they're terrible parents. They love us. I think they're negligent parents. That's not the same thing.
~ Justine Larbalestier
My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
~ K. Eric Drexler
Instead of defining themselves by their biblical identity as the "Chosen People," Jews should distinguish themselves by their social concern and their deeds on behalf of the laboring classes.
~ Kai Bird
I am very distressed, as I assume you are, over the Oppenheimer matter. I feel that it is somewhat like inquiring into the security risk of a Newton or a Galileo.
~ Kai Bird
If Summer joined legions of other Black women trying to eek out concern for our lives and became a hashtag, then I would become open to scrutiny and intrusion my fragility couldn't withstand.
~ Kalisha Buckhanon
You might have a worry that's so stupid it just peters out by itself, like a bad investment.
~ Roz Chast
Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
~ Rahm Emanuel
I'm concerned about getting Iraq on its feet.
~ Douglas Feith
Well, that our main concern is that Iraq should not become a divided country.
~ Bulent Ecevit