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Quotes About Concern

People are dying and my generation just does not care. Including me. But I want to care. I really want to. I want to care so bad.
~ Charles Yu
I have a lot of health anxiety.
~ Charlie Kaufman
Where was the police? Where was anybody?
~ Charlie LeDuff
This is not your responsibility but it is your problem.
~ Cheryl Strayed
So what's been happening to you?" his friend asked. "You have insomnia, you're off your feed, and you couldn't get it up a couple of times. So what?" He shook his head, laughing again. "I really don't think that if you went to a doctor and described those symptoms, he would shake his head and say"—and Jerry's voice shifted into a very bad imitation of Bela Lugosi's—" 'We are dealing here with the curse of the Undead!
~ Chet Williamson
Washington seems to be more concerned about political mud than radioactive dust.
~ Walter Winchell, 1959
The weather today is increasing concern followed by full-blown dread.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Diary, 2003
We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives...
~ Lewis Thomas
The less concerned with aesthetics and usability these friends and family members are, the more easily they navigate sites and applications I can't make head nor hair of. Like the ex-girlfriend who mastered Ebay.
~ Jeffrey Zeldman
The new policy was tantamount to apartheid, to be sure. But if it was predicated on the prevailing racism of the time, it was also fueled by an emerging humanitarian concern that whole tribes were truly on the brink of expiration—becoming, in Carleton's alarming phrase, Children of the Mist.
~ Hampton Sides
When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.
~ Haniel Long
It was her considered opinion that by sending his men to collect her like a cow he wished purchased, her husband was showing her very little in the way of care and concern. Eva supposed this meant she could expect to be considered of little more value at MacAdie than she had been at Caxton. Had it been so much to hope that she might have gained a husband who valued her at least a little? It seemed Connall MacAdie wasn't likely to. "M'lady?
~ Hannah Howell
When something causes you concern, stop and think about what you need to do about it. If there is nothing you can do about it, talk to God about what belongs to Him and what is yours.
~ Harold J. Sala
Worry, on the other hand, is the persistent, nagging, debilitating concern over something you can generally do nothing about.
~ Harold J. Sala
There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.
~ Harold Stephens
Pryce's chicken is an unhealthy-looking grey, the way my sister looked when she had glandular fever. He examines it gloomily. 'We'll get
~ Harry Bingham
What is wrong with a counterfeit is not what it is like, but how it was made. This points to a similar and fundamental aspect of the essential nature of bullshit: although it is produced without concern with the truth, it need not be false. The bullshitter is faking things. But this does not mean that he necessarily gets them wrong.
~ Harry G. Frankfurt
We should resolve now that the health of this nation is a national concern; that financial barriers in the way of attaining health shall be removed; that the health of all it's citizens deserves the help of all the nation.
~ Harry S. Truman
For some idiot reason, the idea of going into the drink with a misspelled safety device weirded Bryce out.
~ Harry Turtledove
When will it begin, anyway?" Sirus held his gaze for a moment, his eyes full of concern- a concern that Joss didn't understand. "Probably sooner than you're ready for." "When's that?" "Well." Sirus sighed, as if doing the math in his head."It'll take us about three minutes to gather this stuff and get to the cabin, and another two or three for Abraham to realize you're here. So I'd say you have about seven more minutes of freedom left.
~ Heather Brewer
Hello there," she said. Then she remembered she hated him and frowned. "What are you doing here?" "Your horse returned without you early this morning. I feared the worst." Her heart stuttered, but she wouldn't give him the satisfaction of gratitude. She huffed. "I didn't need you to come rescue me, you know." "And yet here I am.
~ Heather Crews
Are you all right?" he said.Water dripped down his face and long nose. He's talking to you! her mind yelled. He's talking to you! Say something clever! Say something clever! Azalea said, "Mffloscoflphus?" "The water is rather cold," he said. He pulled her to the bank. Azalea chattered and shivered and coughed, and he continued asking her if she was all right. She wasn't.She was morbidly embarrassed,that's what she was.
~ Heather Dixon
When it comes to anything suspicious—safe is better than sorry.
~ Heather Graham
He was the soul of kindness and concern. The fact that he had talked to my father about this made me want to stab him. But I only said, "I'll talk to Patrick. This doesn't sit right with me.
~ Laurie Colwin