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Quotes About Concern

Saints preserve us,' Dr. Kellen said, and squeezed Galen's shoulder. 'What have we done to our youth?
~ Jessica Day George
The one thing that worries me is that with my mother gone, the voice in my head that tells me to be nice to others has been silenced forever. I fear for other people.
~ Jessica Zafra
are his means of security, makes himself a prisoner. To be loved, and to love, need courage, the courage to judge certain values as of ultimate concern—and to take the jump and stake everything on these values.
~ Erich Fromm
El amor es una actividad; si amo, estoy en un constante estado de preocupación activa por la persona amada, pero no sólo por ella. Porque seré incapaz de relacionarme activamente con la persona amada si soy perezoso, si no estoy en un constante estado de conciencia, alerta y actividad.
~ Erich Fromm
He feared that now he appeared naive.
~ Erik Larson
In shelters, the danger posed by poison gas was a particular concern. People were encouraged to wear their gas masks for thirty minutes a day, so that they would grow accustomed to their use. Children took part in gas-attack drills. All the little children of five have Mickey Mouse gasmasks, wrote Diana Cooper in her diary. They love putting them on for drill and at once start trying to kiss each other, then they march into their shelter singing: 'There'll always be an England.
~ Erik Larson
In shelters, the danger posed by poison gas was a particular concern. People were encouraged to wear their gas masks for thirty minutes a day, so that they would grow accustomed to their use.
~ Erik Larson
Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere.
~ Erma Bombeck
To worry was as bad as to be afraid. It simply made things more difficult. He
~ Ernest Hemingway
He was nervous, and I did not try to help him any.
~ Ernest Hemingway
To worry was as bad as to be afraid. It simply made things more difficult.
~ Ernest Hemingway
It's hard to experience desire when you're weighted down by concern.
~ Esther Perel
As though what he did were the excuse for their own boredom then, and lack of concern. He is just like other people to them. He could easily have danced with a troupe of angels in Paradise every night and they wouldn't have guessed.
~ Eudora Welty
MR. SMITH: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. [Silence.] MR. MARTIN: Don't you feel well? [Silence.] MRS. SMITH: No, he's wet his pants. [Silence.] MRS. MARTIN: Oh, sir, at your age, you shouldn't. [Silence.] MR. SMITH: The heart is ageless. [Silence.]
~ Eugene Ionesco
That would hurt the one I love the most
~ Andy Stanley
Abandoned lovers were often lured into the false embrace of faithless mistresses and this caused the Minister the gravest concern for he feared that one day a man would impregnate an illusion and then a generation of half-breed ghosts would befoul the city
~ Angela Carter
I'm sorry to disturb you, madam,' said Nurse, 'but I thought I'd better speak to you. It's about Miss Delia's knickers' she continued, after a glance at the Vicar and a rapid decision that his cloth protected him. 'She really hasn't a pair fit to wear...
~ Angela Thirkell
You all right?" Scott queried. "Sure.  Why?" "You're quiet.  That's not normal." "Just thinking." "Don't pull a muscle.
~ Angela Verdenius
Alther smiled. He liked the sound of "Alther and I" and he liked the way Alice considered his concerns to be hers too.
~ Angie Sage
Marcia's fine," said his older self. "And that is all you want to know right now.
~ Angie Sage
When you got old there was the worry of indignity and dying.
~ Ann Cleeves
They might share the same secret, but they had different interests. The thought worried her. It was one of the reasons she was scared about leaving prison: that Shirley might land her in the shit, big time.
~ Ann Cleeves
As for 'Twin Peaks,' I'm happy to have been a part of something that was a success. The only time I was concerned was during the second season when it started to lose its focus, and I was thinking, 'What if I get stuck here for five years? I would go crazy.'
~ Sherilyn Fenn
Regarding social media, I really don't understand what appears to be the general population's lack of concern over privacy issues in publicizing their entire lives on the Internet for others to see to such an extent... but hey it's them, not me, so whatever.
~ Axl Rose