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Quotes About Concern

Worry, wariness, anxiety and concern all have a purpose, but they are not fear. So any time your dreaded outcome cannot be reasonably linked to pain or death and it isn't a signal in the presence of danger, then it really shouldn't be confused with fear. It may well be something worth trying to understand and manage, but worry will not bring solutions. It will more likely distract you from finding solutions.
~ Gavin de Becker
Anxiety, unlike real fear, is always caused by uncertainty.
~ Gavin de Becker
Worry is a cloying way to have connection with others, the idea being that to worry about someone shows love. The other side of this is the belief that not worrying about someone means you don't care about them. As many worried-about people will tell you, worry is a poor substitute for love or for taking loving action.
~ Gavin de Becker
It was the refrigerator of a man who was worried about his health. It was also the refrigerator of a man from another generation.
~ Brian Morton
It's not technically gossip if you start your sentence with "I'm really concerned about __________________ ," (fill in the name of the person you're not gossiping about).
~ Brian P. Cleary
When I don't have something to worry about, I worry. Nothing comes so naturally to a human being as anxiety and worry.
~ Brian Richardson
Something's just not right," he said, shaking his head, "not by a long shot.
~ Brom
One has to ask why a Christian scholar like Pierard was concerned about Schaeffer (or himself) being placed outside the mainstream of twentieth-century historical scholarship.
~ Bryan A. Follis
Grace does not annul God's concern for holiness, nor should it ours.
~ Bryan Chapell
His mind swarmed with superstitious suspicions.
~ Herman Melville
Nor does it unfrequently occur, that Nantucket captains will send a son of such tender age away from them, for a protracted three or four years' voyage in some other ship than their own; so that their first knowledge of a whaleman's career shall be unenervated by any chance display of a father's natural but untimely partiality, or undue apprehensiveness and concern.
~ Herman Melville
Another point of difference between the male and female schools is still more characteristic of the sexes. Say you strike a Forty-barrel-bull—poor devil! all his comrades quit him. But strike a member of the harem school, and her companions swim around her with every token of concern, sometimes lingering so near her and so long, as themselves to fall a prey.
~ Herman Melville
You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Dar Bottando È™tia, datorit? unei înÈ›elepciuni ascuÈ›ite în ani întregi de activitate, c? nu exista nici un document care s? ateste c? responsabilitatea nu-i mai aparÈ›inea, iar asta era îngrijor?tor.
~ Iain Pears
This was insomniac memory, not a dream. Frowning with concern, she took his free hand in hers and began to lead him across the room.
~ Ian Mcewan
I would really like to know, he said with genuine curiosity. The next time I kill someone, I'd like to do it in a way that doesn't freak you out.
~ Ilona Andrews
No. I don't go through your things. I just come once in a while to make sure you're in one piece. I like knowing you're safe, asleep in your bed. I haven't stolen anything...
~ Ilona Andrews
Good morning, Ms. Daniels. I'm calling to inform you that Julie has left our premises." Not again. Curran's arms closed around me and he hugged me to him. I leaned back against him. "How?" "She mailed herself.
~ Ilona Andrews
She was beautiful and radiant. He remembered the concern in her eyes. The same concern drove her now, pushing her toward acts of violence. On the surface, he'd be a fool to turn her down. She was driven by tragedy, just like him, and she would be incorruptible, just like him. He needed a blade to kill, but she could kill dozens at once empty-handed. She was Death, and she had just asked to be his ally.
~ Ilona Andrews
Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.
~ Spencer Bachus
We should get young people to be more concerned about our debt and point out to them that promising them more all the time is a completely unsustainable way of being and that it's a lie to say that the top one percent are going to pay for it.
~ Dan Crenshaw
What keeps me up at night? Sometimes it's day-to-day work stuff. And a lot of the times, it's, 'Am I making the wrong decisions in terms of reaching young women?'
~ Tyra Banks
Just the fact that I've lived more, and I'm not concerned about when I am going to get my next job anymore. This business is free-lance and it's not a steady job. Younger, I would have been more preoccupied with myself.
~ Raul Julia
I'm concerned, as I guess all middle-aged people are, about the younger generations' level of literacy.
~ Chris Pavone