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Quotes About Concern

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic.
~ Kevin Costner
But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We have said that Athos loved d'Artagnan like a child, and this somber and inflexible personage felt the anxiety of a parent for the young man.
~ Alexandre Dumas
It is feared that it may be the smallpox, sir, replied Porthos... and what is serious is that it will certainly spoil his face.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Comment se trouve M. Bernajoux, le parent de votre écuyer?
~ Alexandre Dumas
on ne peut combattre l'extrême préoccupation que par l'extrême insouciance.
~ Alexandre Dumas
He seemed happy. She thought that she seldom concerned herself about Laurence's being happy. She wanted him to be in a good mood, so that everything would go smoothly, but that was not the same thing.
~ Alice Munro
Half my concern in love became how to disguise love, to make it harmless and merry.
~ Alice Munro
That is pretty well what the doctor said, in a lot more careful words. He says that the pills he's got her on will keep her from sinking too low. How low is too low, Roy thinks, and when can you tell?
~ Alice Munro
I had wondered if all mothers shared a fear of how vibrant and alive their children were.
~ Alice Sebold
The niggling idea of what she would do as Ray grew older and her husband worked increasingly long hours crept up the inside of her foot and along her calf to the back of her knee and began to climb into her lap
~ Alice Sebold
the morning, Sam is still sick, and Courtney has a headache
~ Allegra Goodman
JEALOUS, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
~ Ambrose Bierce
WEATHER, n. The climate of the hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned.
~ Ambrose Bierce
how's your leg?
~ Joe Abercrombie
Being a parent means always being afraid. Afraid for your children. Afraid of your children.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Hardbread looked concerned, as usual. Red Hat looked grim, as usual. Oxel had his usual shifty sideways squint like the knight herald was another man's sheep he was thinking of making off with. And Shivers just looked like Shivers, which was probably the most troubling of the lot.
~ Joe Abercrombie
You sure you're all right? You aren't out here pondering dark female thoughts are you?
~ Joe Hill
AROUND FIFTY-EIGHT THOUSAND NONFAMILY CHILD ABDUCTIONS occur each year in America
~ Joe Hill
For instance, when people press their lips together in a manner that seems to make them disappear, it is a clear and common sign that they are troubled and something is wrong.
~ Joe Navarro
In spite of the weakness of the epidemiological evidence linking nitrites to cancer, and the established fact that 95 per cent of all the nitrite we ingest comes from bacterial conversion of nitrates naturally found in vegetables, many consumers have a lingering concern about eating nitrite-cured processed meats. But one person's concern is another's business opportunity.
~ Joe Schwarcz
My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost 7.00 in dog money.
~ Joe Weinstein
This book argues that the history of federal student loan policies is best understood as a series of messes in which attention became focused on some particular aspect of a larger problem and well-intentioned policies were devised to address each narrowly defined concern.
~ Joel Best
Are you okay?" "Yeah." "Good," she said, "because if you fall off a skyscraper, I'll be so mad at you.
~ Joel N. Ross