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Quotes About Anxious

The more precious His gift, the more anxious God for its return.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
We are preoccupied with the past, which has already happened, and we are pre-occupied about the future, which does not yet exist. We worry about what will happen and we think about various things that make us feel anxious, frustrated, passionate, angry, resentful, afraid. While we are so preoccupied, our awareness of the here-and-now slips by and we hardly notice its passing. We eat without tasting, we look without seeing and live without ever perceiving what is real.
~ Jane Hope
The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.
~ Janet Street-Porter
I am truly anxious to get on with my life.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.
~ Edmund Burke
Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.
~ Albert Camus
Then came upon a world in ruins an anxious youth. The children were drops of burning blood which had inundated the earth; they were born in the bosom of war, for war. For fifteen years they had dreamed of the snows of Moscow and of the sun of the Pyramids.
~ Alfred de Musset
I'm very claustrophobic.
~ Brittany Snow
I'm anything but confident.
~ Mike Nichols
The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.
~ Oliver Joseph Lodge
he was still belligerent, angry, stupid, always ready and even anxious to take a poke at somebody, anybody. It was as if he generated inside himself the poison which kept him continually irritated and angry and sick, like a snake that insists on biting itself.
~ Richard S. Prather
If a person cast no shadow at all, he couldn't be alive. His existence became meaningless.Execrating Apophis by destroying his shadow would cut his connection to the mortal world completely. He'd never be able to rise again. I finally understood why he'd been so anxious to burn Setne's scrolls, and he was afraid of this spell. (Carter Kane)
~ Rick Riordan
Uh, Maya?" Corey called. "You said she was dangerous, so can we leave the kitty alone now?" "Something's really bothering her." Daniel walked over. "Is she hurt?" "I don't think so. Just…upset. Anxious." "Um, yeah," Corey said. "Because there are a bunch of teenagers and a very big dog blocking her way down.
~ Kelley Armstrong
bewildered like. I had alluz been skeered o
~ Work Projects Administration
rush, his palms are sweating
~ David R. Johnson
Feelings that have been pushed away do not actually disappear; they live on in the darkness of the Unconscious, pulling the strings in our relationships, our work, self-expression, causing us to become reactive, compulsive, obsessive, depressed, anxious, and deteriorate our physical health until one day, we remember, all feelings have a right to exist in us. So, we stop numbing ourselves, and feed them love, attention, curiosity and Presence. Now, they can finally come to rest.
~ Jeff Foster
I'm not good with speeding," said Shirley, sounding more than a little anxious. "The speed limits are there for a reason. Cars aren't meant to go fast.
~ Jeff Strand
Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules. And then we go home and do whatever the hell we want anyhow.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.
~ Janet Street-Porter
I wait up front like some asshole whose mom is picking out his suit for prom night right in front of all the mean girls from school.
~ Richard Kadrey
The claim oh, that's ancient history is almost always a wish, am anxious attempt to put a boundary of time around some event that really is not over at all; it is a bid to silence the past.
~ Robert A. Orsi
In the middle of the night, when Laila woke up thirsty, she found their hands still clamped together, in the white-knuckle, anxious way of children clutching balloon strings.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Life with an unreliable mother had robbed her of the sense of security necessary for upward mobility. It had rendered her anxious and shortsighted.
~ Kristin Gore