Quotes About Concern

Except that, almost against his will, he did care about Robin. He felt familiar stirrings of a desire to make her happy that irked him . . .

The argument had been in full swing when Matthew's father telephoned with the news that a funny turn Matthew's mother had suffered the previous week had been diagnosed as a mini-stroke. After this, she and Matthew felt that squabbling about Strike was in bad taste, so they went to bed in an unsatisfactory state of theoretical reconciliation, both, Robin knew, still seething. It was

Except that, almost against his will, he did care about Robin.

If he texted about Morris, there was a good chance that Robin would call him back to find out how Joan was.

Strike, meanwhile, had seen just enough of Robin to be shocked by her appearance. He had never seen her face so pale, nor her eyes so puffy and bloodshot. Even as he sat down at his desk, eager to hear what information on Whittaker Shanker had brought to his office, the thought crossed his mind: What's the bastard done to her? And for a fraction of a second, before fixing all his attention on Shanker, Strike imagined punching Matthew and enjoying it.

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues.

In the context of religious leadership, tinkering with structure is not a first choice of means for building or sustaining quality in an institution. Leadership is the prime concern!

But now that 50 percent of the young people are involved in some post-secondary education, the structure of the institution and its impact on values have become a matter of concern.

After a short flurry of national and international concern over the "death of the Sun," the human race settled down to solving the insoluble problem in the best way that they knew - they ignored it and hoped it would go away.

Worriers are most concerned they are not nurturing and caring enough toward other people. They worry about letting other people down, that other people are upset with them, and that other people are unhappy. In fact, worriers tend to be better than nonworriers in anticipating the feelings of other people.8

He lowered his eyes to his dad's face. There was fear there. Fear. When your dad was frightened, there was something to be frightened about.

What I know concerns me. What I don't know concerns me even more. What people aren't telling me worries me the most.

This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.

It is simplistic to advocate that if you stop worrying about your children, they'll automatically have no problems. To be alive is to have problems. But it is certain that, if children don't have their parents' concern about them added to their ordinary difficulties, they will do better. Worrying about a child does not solve the lack of differentiation of self that leads to it.

He almost dreaded to find out what was going on in the hospital. It was like a sickness in his own family. Medicine had been his life.

My God, you're like a med student. You hear of a new disease and five minutes later either you or the kids have it.

I have a mastery of the art of worrying that is a burden to me if I may not use it.

Worrying about things beyond your control is a pretty good formula for illness. And most of the things we so concern ourselves with about never actually happen.

La preocupación priva a la mente de gran parte de su poder y, antes o después, acaba dañando el alma.

an instant I considered calling security myself, but, realizing that this might be someone in need, I assumed a

Does anybody really care about a hungry cat, except for a few friends?

Rockefeller feared that other states might copy this precedent and hold him hostage.

Even amid an insurrection that he supported, he fretted about the damage to constituted authority and worried about mob rule. Like