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Quotes About Concern

You are a little low this evening, Frederick,' said the Father of the Marshalsea. 'Anything the matter?
~ Charles Dickens
My poor girl, what is the matter?' She looked up suddenly, with reddened eyes, and with her hands suspended, in the act of pinching her neck, freshly disfigured with great scarlet blots. 'It's nothing to you what's the matter. It don't signify to any one.
~ Charles Dickens
was sometimes apprehensive that he might be at that very moment an interesting case of spontaneous combustion, without having the consolation of knowing it. At last, however, he began to think—as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it.
~ Charles Dickens
Not to make Joe uneasy by talking too much, even if I had been able to talk much, I deferred asking him about Miss Havisham until next day. He shook his head when I then asked him if she had recovered? 'Is she dead, Joe?' 'Why, you see, old chap,' said Joe, in a tone of remonstrance, and by way of getting at it by degrees, 'I wouldn't go so far as to say that, for that's a deal to say; but she ain't -' 'Living, Joe?' 'That's nigher where it is,' said Joe; 'she ain't living.
~ Charles Dickens
Doctor, if something goes wrong, there is probably squat-all we can do about it, anyway. I'm sure you folks have been chatting about the ship that just came in so you're probably guessing the same thing I am: that if these Dornaani wanted to put their foot up our ass and wriggle their toes out our nostrils, I doubt there's a thing in creation we could do about it.
~ Charles E. Gannon
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
~ Charles F. Kettering
My lessons weren't specific to business, but they were fundamental values—integrity, humility, responsibility, work ethic, entrepreneurship, a thirst for knowledge, the desire to make a contribution, and concern for others—that profoundly influenced the way I do business and live my life to this day.
~ Charles G. Koch
Have you been worried since he broke out?" Jade asked. "Well, I suppose worried isn't quite the word for it. Concerned. Concerned is a better word.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
If you're more concerned about our reputation than about me, then I'll just withdraw and not have a family anymore. p.32
~ Greggory R. Reid
You're a great brother. You give us a heart attack worrying about your heart attack, which you didn't even have the decency to have!
~ Groucho Marx
It can be easy to forget the lessons of history, including the tragedies of war, and ramp up divisive and destructive rhetoric without concern for the consequences.
~ Gudjon Bergmann
If those hellish fiends are rising from the deep again I don't want her anywhere near them.' 'Alright.
~ Guy N. Smith
At the Long Island plant, no one was concerned about espionage—neither
~ H. Beam Piper
I wanted to find out why. But when Professor Dandrik saw what was happening, he became almost hysterical, and ordered the accelerator shut down as though he were afraid it would blow up in his face." "I think it has blown up in his face," Prince Travann said quietly.
~ H. Beam Piper
Love simply is." "Looking at beauty in the world and an understanding of life that fills you with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern for others.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
The wrong people always worry. The people who are the real problem never worry about anything.
~ James Lee Burke
documented in a security file was of no concern to him. The fact that a man like Joe Tex could have access to it
~ James Lee Burke
Whenever I hear and see a politician or a military leader, a bank of American flags at his back, trying to convince us of the rightness of a policy or a deed that will cause harm to others; when I am almost convinced myself that setting humanitarian concern in abeyance can be justified in the interest of a greater good, I pause and ask myself what my brain-smoked friends would have to say.
~ James Lee Burke
I just wish I could walk into my Senator's office and say, "Senator Dude, Um, we have a problem with these sicko scientists…" But then again, I don't think we have a Senator, do we? Is there a state where mutant freaks are represented? If so, let me know.
~ James Patterson
Then I found it: the source of the blood, the place where he'd been shot. 'Total?' I said, and I got a slight whimper. 'You have a boo-boo on your tail.
~ James Patterson
It's better to care too much than too little. Every single time.
~ James Patterson
He's gonna be fine," I confirmed. "Can we see him?" Iggy asked. "Ig, I hate to break this to you, but you're blind," I said, my relief making me tease him. "However, in a little while you can go listen to him breathe and maybe talk to him.
~ James Patterson
had a sneaking suspicion that
~ James Patterson
of," I said. "There's more, Alex." Normally Joan was pretty matter-of-fact, even at the roughest scenes, but there was a tightness in her voice
~ James Patterson