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Quotes About Anxious

Even though China was a very closed country, they thought of themselves as the center of the world. It is an ethnic characteristic. After I went to Japan, I had a totally different view. The Japanese are always talking about what the Western world is doing. There is the anxious feeling of an outsider.
~ Cai Guo-Qiang
They're looking for nervous or furtive behavior.
~ Lee Child
Children love figuring out what comes next in a sequence of events. Doing so makes them feel smart and less anxious.
~ Linda Acredolo
But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion, and the final emergence into the light - only those who have experienced it can understand that.
~ Albert Einstein
Choice gives you doubts and uncertainties. Therefore, you are always somewhat anxious
~ Albert Ellis
He did not sleep well.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Most businessmen are not, contrary to popular belief, 'natural' liberals. Their inclination is towards order and peace. They tend to be anxious and feel vulnerable, understandably so since they seldom know what is going to happen next.
~ Donald Sassoon
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
~ Jim Bishop
If there is one classic maneuver played by large multinationals and shrewd dealers in all fields to take advantage of anxious adversaries, this is the one. Build positive expectations with pie-in-the-sky numbers, then start in with the ifs, ands, and buts.
~ Jim Camp
He's calling us to the Great Exchange--the one where we ccan never lose. As we trade the "many things" that make us anxious, He gives us the "one thing" that calms our hearts. Himself.
~ Joanna Weaver
His face searching the bus windows looked expectant, impatient, and a little anxious. It was a husband's face. Familiar, known, increasing beloved. Mary Ann, I reflected, had an awful lot to learn. And actually, I reflected, I wouldn't be in her shoes right now for all the flowers in Bermuda...having it all to learn again.
~ Ann Head
The word 'improv' always makes me feel a little anxious because I always feel like we'll have to pull props out of a bag and find 800 different ways to talk about a stick, the way you do in theater school.
~ Jonathan Groff
Then she was in the air, and Carlyle involuntarily held his breath. He had not realized that the dive was nearly forty feet. It seemed an eternity before he heard the swift compact sound as she reached the sea. And it was with his glad sigh of relief when her light watery laughter curled up the side of the cliff and into his anxious ears that he knew he loved her.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don't know. I just feel all wicky-wacky. I'm just thrown for a loop and back. I can't even think about what to do.
~ Fannie Flagg
When it takes place, the dreaded encounter is utterly insignificant, justifying none of my anxiety, but the next time is no different: I never learn to learn.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I'm basically a fearful person. I'm a phobic person.
~ Spalding Gray
I'm very anxious. If you're going to fight the best fighters, you have to be prepared for a war, a highly-anticipated fight.
~ Amanda Nunes
You have an administration which understands America's international responsibilities and interests, but you have a population which is anxious, tired, and doesn't want to bear any burden and pay any price. And that's very difficult for whoever becomes president.
~ Lee Hsien Loong
Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.
~ Norman Rockwell
I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
~ Ed Weeks
No, I'm not at all adventurous. I'm terribly cowardly.
~ Roger Moore
You show a movie to your friends when you're working on it, but you don't have any real objectivity. You just don't know. So that moment when it's shown for the very first time at Sundance, it's just terrifying. I'm so anxious. And then every screening is different.
~ Jeff Baena
What's wrong, babe? You sound
~ Lisa Scottoline
His thoughts seemed to be elsewhere, and his eyes were very troubled.
~ Lois Lowry