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Quotes About Concern

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
~ James Madison
We caught up with Bigs at the base of the hill. He was watching the sledders race down the slope. His eyes looked moist. I was worried the big lug might burst into tears. Either that, or rip a tree out of the ground.
~ James Preller
Jensen dwelled on thoughts of what the future would bring and he didn't like what he saw there.
~ James Swallow
Frances, who also was feeling distant from her husband. Though still deeply in love after ten years of marriage, Frances worried that her husband's passion for politics and worldly achievement surpassed his love for his family. She mourned "losing my influence over a heart I once thought so entirely my own," increasingly apprehensive that she and her husband were "differently constituted.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
Corinne suggested a different reason, indicating that her dying father had expressed concern about Theodore's intimacy with Edith, given Charles Carow's fiscal and temperamental instability. If Theodore discussed the issue with Edith that night, he might well have triggered the volatility that he would obscurely explain to Bamie as a clash of tempers "that were far from being of the best.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
of bed rest. Thee feared that his son was
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
So she was on her own, Kate thought, and instilled all the friendly helpfulness she could into her next question. "Excuse me, but are you the bad company young Mr. Scott has got into?
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Anxiously, Lymond called. 'If she undresses, I pray you do not restrain her! It can cause untold injury!
~ Dorothy Dunnett
It was your brother. He must be insane." "Not insane, dear." Sybilla, speaking gently, contradicted. "Not insane. But magnificently drunk, I fear.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
It began eighteen months ago, Lady Culter. He has tried to end his life twice. Once Archie brought him back. Now I have done the same. We have interfered in what doesn't concern us. He belongs to himself and is at his own disposal. Or else what are we?
~ Dorothy Dunnett
As we will see below, when a female slave's role as worker conflicted with that of childbearer, concern for high productivity often outweighed concern for high fertility.
~ Dorothy Roberts
So, the world is fine. We don't have to save the world—the world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about, is whether or not the world we live in, will be capable of sustaining us in it. That's what we need to think about.
~ Douglas Adams
Time," said Arthur weakly, "is not currently one of my problems.
~ Douglas Adams
The thing that used to worry him most was the fact that people always used to ask him what he was looking so worried about.
~ Douglas Adams
Fuck 'em," said Ford, slumping on the bed. "You can't care about every damn thing.
~ Douglas Adams
I'd change you bandages for you, but you don't have any and that's a big issue here.
~ Douglas Coupland
on for the rest of my life." That evening, Virgilio joined us at dinner. I asked him about the clear-cutting that checkerboarded the jungle we had flown over. He was shocked and concerned by what he'd seen. He said we had found the site in the nick of time, before deforestation and
~ Douglas Preston
The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.
~ Agatha Christie
Everything's the matter.
~ Agatha Christie
DON'T EAT NONE OF THE PLUM PUDDING. ONE WHO WISHES YOU WELL.
~ Agatha Christie
What was the point of all the odd questions he was continually shooting at her, Iris? Wasn't there something very queer about George lately? The odd fuddled look he had in the evenings! Lucilla attributed it to a glass or so too much of port. Lucilla would! No, there was something queer about George lately. He seemed to be labouring under a mixture of excitement interlarded with great spaces of complete apathy when he sunk in a coma.
~ Agatha Christie
What is it? You are not attending to what I say." "It is true, my friend. I am much worried." "Why?" "Because Mademoiselle Cynthia does not take sugar in her coffee.
~ Agatha Christie
he seemed in a great hurry, and anxious to get away." I have no doubt but that that was the case.
~ Agatha Christie
Berapa banyak waktu dalam hidup yang kita sia-siakan karena mengkhawatirkan sesuatu yang, pada saat itu, tak memiliki solusi, dan karena itu, bukanlah sebuah masalah?
~ Ajahn Brahm