Quotes About Concern

My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.

The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

Why not make an end of it all?... My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings.... What is death?... A very small matter,when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

My fear was like a stray dog, roving the neighborhood of my life, looking for a new source of worry.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.

I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.

POPULISTS' GRIEVANCES WERE many, and bitter. Their best-founded objection was their concern about the federal government's support of the interests of businesses over those of labor.

Show me someone who cares about God's people, and I will show you someone who loves God. Show me someone who says they deeply love God but has little concern for his people, and I will show you someone spiritually delusional.

When life attains a crisis, man's focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.

You can let your breath out," she said, moving around to the side of the tub. She gave him the bottle again. "here, have another drink. I'm all done. You're going to live." "I knew I was going to survive the injury," he said lowly. His eyes held hers. "I didn't know if I was going to survive your attentions.

She's the kind of person who looks at you when you're talking and asks you questions as if she really cares.

He was rarely tender, and seldom reached out to anticipate another's needs, though occasionally he would exhibit a sudden concern for another outlaw, hitchhiker, or bum, and go out of his way to see them looked after. He was touching and infinitely fragile. His indescribably white hands moved constantly: putting a cigarette almost to his mouth, then tugging relentlessly at a tuft of hair at his neck, inadvertently dumping the cigarette ashes in dusty cavalcades down his jacket.

Stay put," he said. "I don't want you setting off any explosives that'll get us both killed." "Let me go with you." "I don't want you getting hurt, Red." There was something about the sound of his voice that gave her pause. "Don't tell me you care." He ruffled her hair as though she were four instead of twenty-five. "All right, I won't. Just stay put.

While Jeff had been packing for this trip to his grandparents, his mother had tucked a flashlight and extra batteries into his suitcase over his protests. "So if you have to get up in the night you can find the bathroom down the hall," she had said. "Mom, that's crazy!"' "No, it isn't. I know from experience. There are lots of little tables and what-nots in that hall, and you could break a toe.

On the one hand, it was nice to have someone who was concerned about you. But on the other hand, you couldn't ever feel truly independent. Marriage was a trade-off. You gave up some things and you gained others.

Even at that late hour, they sounded more concerned with the welfare of the company than the welfare of the women, which had been the problem all along.

Dalton. We don't know where the others are. They were just behind us. I think we'd better wait for them.' 'I saw a cart pull out in front of them,' Sophie said. 'It'll have slowed them down.' Mr Lloyd looked round, frowning. 'No one's come to the door to check what we're

There is sickness here," Henry said. "The bodywalker must tend to Boo Bear." The

You sure you feel all right to do this today?" He opened her carry bag, took out a couple of containers of food, and put them in the under-the-counter fridge. "I'll be fine," Meg replied, sounding testy. If she would let him sniff her properly, he'd know if she was all right without having to keep asking.

Sissy?" Monty said, struggling for control. "It's CJ. I want to talk to Mama." "Mama wrote to you? When she heard about the phone call, she got a mad on and said she would write. It's just that, Jimmy called to see how we were doing . . .

Men's concern with status differentials has implications for their intimacy with friends. Because an element of competition always exists between them, men are wary about self-disclosure to other men.

the family doctor was summoned, and pronounced me stricken with fever.

You'll have the use of my body, Breck, until my mother is dead, but that's all you'll have of me. Not one word of tenderness, not one ounce of compassion or concern. If you're tired, if you're hurt, if you're sick, plan to go elsewhere for succor, because you won't find it with me! Those are my terms, Breck, and they're the only terms you'll get from me.