Quotes About Concern

Dorothy asked timidly: Did his wife say anything? She sent her love to you. Nora said: Stop being nasty.

If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.

Don't you think if someone like me, someone who invented most of this shit, is scared, don't you think you should be scared, too?

What about the kids?" He pointed to them.

Where is it written that one should only care about big things?

I think I was very often bored as a child, but boredom is not what I knew it as—what I knew was that I worried a lot

It occurs to me that neither my aunt nor my uncle has once asked what happened to the pretty little thing that came visiting with us last time we were up, and I wonder what my mother has said to my aunt. I begin to be anxious about something I can neither locate nor define.

To lessen your fear and regard to the opinion of the world, think how soon the world will disregard you, and have no more thought or concern about you, than about the poorest animal that died in a ditch...Is it therefore worth your while to lose the smallest degree of virtue, for the sake of pleasing so bad a master, and so false a friend, as the world is?

If she and I be pleased, what's that to you?

Best safety lies in fear.

How now? Even so quickly may one catch the plague?

Is it physical To walk unbraced and suck up the humors Of the dank morning? What, is Brutus sick, And will he steal out of his wholesome bed To dare the vile contagion of the night?

Everyone, Ross said, seems a little less concerned than I do. Am I more tender-hearted for others or only tender because of my own conscience? We are not–untender, she said. Not so. But maybe we are more–resigned. When a man is condemned to death we accept it, though it's sad to do so. We know we cannot change it. You hoped to change it–so it's more of a–a disappointment. You feel you have failed. We don't feel that because we never hoped to succeed.

A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife's bed is a cause of the gravest concern.

I'm an alarmist, not a hypochondriac

No one is saying you cant be prejudiced or a bigot. We are all human and hold prejudices. If you state that you dont have prejudices, your lying! But, when you act on it and victimize innocent citizens and fellow innocen officers, than that is a concern.

The poor have always had to live for the present, but now a desperate concern for personal survival, sometimes disguised as hedonism, engulfs the middle class as well.

Why is it always easier to be optimistic about somebody else's worries?" Adrian said with a bitter laugh.

Aku sendiri tidak takut akan keselamatan diriku, tapi rakyatku yang selalu diliputi kekuatiran.

my gosh." Rhonda pressed a hand over her heart, and tears pooled in her eyes as she looked toward the door. "Eva." Coop walked over to meet Eva and Mike, who stood protectively beside her. "Are you . . . should you . . . can I . . . ?" Eva smiled. "Yes, I'm ready to be out. Yes, I should be here. And yes, you

When desperately concerned with our own affairs, it is not easy for any one of us to be interested in a neighbor's new stereo.

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

Looking around, I wonder about all the white parents surrounding me. Are any of them anxious that these white teachers are overrepresenting the race of their child and therefore affirming white dominance and white hierarchical thinking? Are any concerned that these white teachers, with their overwhelming representation of whiteness, are confirming the racist structures we are all subject to? What is my aim here? I

capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity.