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Quotes About Concern

I called Kim's house the moment I got home. "I've got your necklace, I told her. Kim was thrilled. Mila, on the other hand, was not. She didn't understand why I didn't return to Kim's house. Now I have to walk home alone, Mila complained. No! Don't, I warned her. Call your father. Get a ride. But do not—I repeat, DO NOT—walk home alone. It's too dangerous.
~ James Preller
The Care Package is a relationship the Lead has with someone else, in which he shows his concern, through word or deed, for that character's well being.
~ James Scott Bell
Maybe instead of worrying about Shelly's marriage, she should examine her own.
~ Jan Moran
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner. (Elizabeth Bennett)
~ Jane Austen
Manners is what holds a society together. At bottom, propriety is concern for other people. When that goes out the window, the gates of hell are shortly opened and ignorance is King.
~ Jane Austen
Jemima has just told me that the butcher says there is a bad sore throat very much about. I dare say I shall catch it; and my sore throats, you know, are always worse than anybody's.
~ Jane Austen
It did not often happen; for Mr. John Knightley had really a great regard for his father-in-law, and generally a strong sense of what was due to him; but it was too often for Emma's charity, especially as there was all the pain of apprehension frequently to be endured, though the offense came not.
~ Jane Austen
He had just compunction enough for having done nothing for his sisters himself, to be exceedingly anxious that everybody else should do a great deal.
~ Jane Austen
Even Elizabeth began to fear—not that Bingley was indifferent—but that his sisters would be successful in keeping him away. Unwilling as she was to admit an idea so destructive
~ Jane Austen
I am quite uneasy about your dear brother, not having heard from him since he went to Oxford; and am fearful of some misunderstanding. Your kind offices will set all right: he is the only man I ever did or could love, and I trust you will convince him of it.
~ Jane Austen
eco-anxiety.
~ Jane Goodall
When you are overly concerned with physical matters, and even vital physical matters, you pull yourself in. And more ridiculous, you pull up your roots. A tree would never pull up its roots. I am not speaking now of pulling up your roots in terms of moving from one location to another. I am speaking of something akin to cutting off your roots from any nourishment
~ Jane Roberts
rain or snow. Mama worried and Papa was impressed;
~ Jane Smiley
But I could end up in prison." He waved off her concern. "I'd break you out." "You'd do that for me?" "You're my daughter, aren't you?" Kate smiled. Sure, he'd missed a lot of Christmases and birthdays during her childhood, but not many fathers could be counted on to mount a prison break.
~ Janet Evanovich
What do you have?" "A real bad feeling.
~ Janet Evanovich
We went to the wall and looked down at Vlatko, sprawled on the road below us. 'Do you think he's okay?' I asked. 'Babe,' Ranger said. 'He's one inch thick.
~ Janet Evanovich
My mother started as soon as I hit the front porch. Every time I see you, you look worse and worse.
~ Janet Evanovich
She shouldn't be allowed to walk around. She might hurt someone.
~ Janet Fitch
The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
~ Daniel Dennett
Concern for 'national security' has introduced unprecedented insecurity to living in the United States as a legal permanent resident.
~ Rashida Tlaib
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
I am concerned about the erraticness of the dollar. The dollar is up, the dollar is down. We print a lot of dollars. The dollar gets devalued. That is really the concern. If people think the gold price up and down is a reflection of something wrong with gold, no - I say it is something wrong with the dollar.
~ Ron Paul
I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing.
~ Georg Solti
I worry about my children, actually. I'm trying to give them a decent upbringing but I sometimes worry that that means they're going to be kind of mediocre adults. Like maybe I should throw them out for a bit and give them some adversity.
~ Romesh Ranganathan