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Quotes About Concern

You care. Not the cares of the body. But you have the caring of the soul. It's a different kind of desire, but you all have it, and it never goes away.
~ Orson Scott Card
If things far away don't concern you, you'll soon mourn things close at hand.
~ Confucius
While they have not got their aims, their anxiety is how to get them. When they have got them, their anxiety is lest they should lose them.
~ Confucius
It's strange. When I couldn't find the drop and the plague came, you seemed so far away I would not ever be able to find you again. But I know now that you were here all along, and that nothing, not the Black Death nor seven hundred years, nor death nor things to come nor any other creature could ever separate me from your caring and concern. It was with me every minute.
~ Connie Willis
I dont know how it would of turned out if I hadnt worried.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The drunk's concern ain't that he's goin to die from drinkin - which he is. It's that he's goin to run out of whiskey fore he gets a chance to do it.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I dont think people are wrong to be concerned about the world's intentions toward them. There's a lot of bad news out there and some of it is coming to your house. Drowning
~ Cormac McCarthy
Bad news? Oh, festering fungus! What sort of bad news?
~ Cornelia Funke
Yes,' she whispered. 'He was more worried about the book than me.
~ Cornelia Funke
worrying him, and he seemed to look straight through her as if his thoughts were somewhere else entirely. The foreboding in Meggie's heart grew, spreading black wings. 'Send him away, Mo!' she said
~ Cornelia Funke
Gefährlich ... seit wann interessiert dich das?
~ Cornelia Funke
Oh my God, Hillary, if a Republican is elected, I'm screwed because all they want to do is take away Obamacare.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
That was all her prayer—not for his soul or his righteousness, but that he might not be wasted. And while he slept, for hours and hours, she thought and prayed for him.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Whether you are the head of a temple, a senior monk or other officer, or simply an ordinary monk, do not forget the attitude behind living out your life with joy, having the deep concern of a parent, and carrying out all your activities with magnanimity. Written by D?gen in the spring of 1237 at K?sh?-ji for followers of the Way in succeeding generations.
~ D?gen
America means above all toleration, catholicity, welcome, freedom--a concern for Europe, for Asia, for Africa, along with its concern for America. It is something quite peculiar, hardly to be stated--evades you as the air--yet is a fact everywhere preciously present.
~ Walt Whitman
Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of redemption. The same applies to our view of the past, which is the concern of history... There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
When you see a filmmaker getting too fancy... you can bet he's worried either about his story or his ability to tell it.
~ Walter Dean Myers
You're a smart one, eh, Rawlins? Yeah, I said. So smart that I'm here with you worryin' 'bout my liberty, my money, and my life. If was any more smarter I wouldn't even have to breathe.
~ Walter Mosley
John Quincy Adams was convinced that Polk's election meant the end of the civilized world
~ Walter R. Borneman
How can I play baseball when I'm worried about foreign policy?
~ Charles M. Schulz
So you have a new baby sister, huh Charlie Brown? Yes, and I'm so happy... Happy?! I suppose it's never occurred to you that over-population is a serious problem?!
~ Charles M. Schulz
example of a phenomenon that will concern us in this chapter: production pressures in this high-risk system.
~ Charles Perrow
Commenting on Rom 9:1-5] The Christian church would never lack converts if all its members or even its ministers felt for their friends and fellow countrymen the deep concern expressed by the apostle Paul for his kinsmen the Jews.
~ Charles R. Erdman
From Aftermath: Dr. Oldfield "Single celled and oceanic forms will presumably survive but it might make life impossible for humans." President Saul: "Actually, that tends to be my primary concern. Sponges and oysters will have to take care of themselves.
~ Charles Sheffield