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Quotes About Worrying

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.
~ Peter Singer
And yet there's other species even closer to zero. I know that. And I hope to God somebody else is worrying about 'em. I often ask myself, would I slit my own throat if I was guaranteed I could save one species by slitting it? We all know one human life is worth more than one bird's life. But is my miserable little life worth a whole species?
~ Jonathan Franzen
To worry means to strangle.
~ Joseph Murphy
We can defeat Satan much more quickly by praising God than by worrying.
~ Joyce Meyer
I wonder how much of our mental time is spent worrying, reasoning, and fearing—possibly more than is spent on anything else. Instead of meditating on our problems, let's choose to meditate on the "alls" of God. He says you can cast "… [all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares for you…" (1 Pet. 5:7). Let us realize how unlimited His power is and trust Him to do what we cannot do.
~ Joyce Meyer
Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
~ Washington Irving
The cycle is sometimes sped along deliberately by "availability entrepreneurs," individuals or organizations who work to ensure a continuous flow of worrying news.
~ Daniel Kahneman
This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried about so many things that didn't happen in the end.
~ James Barrett Scotty Reston
That can't be good. If something has a nickname, that means it's big and being talked about. Not good at all.
~ James Dashner
Oh, well. I don't mind helping you to feel guilty if you must. On the other hand, I should point out that of all our various encounters, today is the only time you have favoured me with two civil words in sequence. I found it quite worrying.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Something was jigging and worrying in his brain; it felt like a hive of bees, stirred up by a stick.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
You know,' he said, sitting back, reflectively, 'it's at times like this that you kind of wonder if it's worth worrying about the fabric of space-time and the causal integrity of the multidimensional probability matrix and the potential collapse of all waveforms in the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash and all that sort of stuff that's been bugging me.
~ Douglas Adams
The flare-watch in East Nekhebet had picked up an energy pulse, much brighter than anything seen previously. Briefly, there was the worrying possibility that Delta Pavonis was about to repeat the flare which had wiped out the Amarantin: the vast coronal mass ejection known as the Event. But closer examination revealed that the flare did not originate from the star, but rather from something several light-hours beyond it, on the edge of the system.
~ Alastair Reynolds
And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
~ Rachel Hunter
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I saw that worrying had come to nothing and gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.
~ Mary Oliver
Stop worrying about approval and appreciation. Enjoy the beauty and effect of contributing to the universe.
~ Debasish Mridha
Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.
~ Will Rogers
Whatever you're thinking about is literally like planning a future event. When you're worrying, you are planning. When you are appreciating, you are planning...What are you planning?
~ Esther Hicks
And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
~ Rachel Hunter
Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.
~ Will Rogers
But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be.
~ David Cronenberg
There are many important things in life worth worrying about. There are even some aspects of music that warrant thoughtful consideration from conscientious musicians. If we take the research seriously, chordal-tone doubling is not one of them.
~ David Huron
maybe tonight you're scared of falling, and maybe there's somebody here or somewhere else you're thinking about, worrying over, fretting over, trying to figure out if you want to fall, or how and when you're gonna land, and i gotta tell you, friends, to stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.
~ David Levithan