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Quotes About Anxious

I couldn't remember the last time I'd seen her actually relax and sit still in a way that made it obvious she wasn't already thinking about the next six things she had to do, and maybe the six after that
~ Sarah Dessen
And if you discipline an anxious pup, they'll become more stressed and destroy other items — perhaps your rug or the bed. Is this a sign of spite? No, never: puppies live in the moment and in moment's like these your puppy is just confused and worried, and they need your help to adjust.
~ Sarah Hodgson
Set new-furniture rules. I think it best not to keep your puppy on the furniture around a new baby, but if you wait to spring this rule on your pup after the baby's home, the puppy may feel confused or anxious. Keep a short freedom line on your puppy, and if they hop on the furniture, gently guide them off, reminding them to Go to Your Place. Remember that shouting or shoving them off is interactive and suggestive of a game.
~ Sarah Hodgson
For very few persons are concerned about the way that leads to heaven, but all are anxious to know, before the time, what passes there.
~ John Calvin
In the theatre, if you say 'Macbeth', all the actors will start looking very anxious. I'm so well-trained not to say it in the theatre that I can hardly say it in normal life.
~ Anna Chancellor
Because people without the trait (the majority) do not understand that, they see us as timid, shy, weak, or that greatest sin of all, unsociable. Fearing these labels, we try to be like others. But that leads to our becoming overaroused and distressed. Then that gets us labeled neurotic or crazy, first by others and then by ourselves.
~ Elaine N. Aron
Ginger's eyes had always been beautiful, gay, sparkling, laughing, and intelligent. Now they were even more beautiful for there were sadness and pleading, an anxious questioning, in them, too.
~ Eleanor Estes
There is a wonderful little passage in the Confessions of Saint Augustine, written around the year 400. He starts by describing his insatiable cravings for success in the eyes of others: "I panted after honors . . . boiling with the feverishness of consuming thoughts." (Every success addict can relate to this.) He then describes coming across a beggar in the streets of Milan, whom he secretly admired: "He was joyous, I anxious; he void of care, I full of fears.
~ Arthur C. Brooks
Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.
~ Roy H. Williams
It is a new step towards independence, once a man dares to express opinions that bring disgrace on him if he entertains them; then even his friends and acquaintances begin to grow anxious. The man of talent must pass through this fire, too; afterwards he is much more his own person.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.
~ Queen Victoria
Hot and bothered.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Melly couldn't say boo to a goose.
~ Margaret Mitchell
You should have insured a place for your children in the social scheme years ago—but you didn't. You didn't even bother to keep what position you had. And it's too much to hope that you'll mend your ways at this late date. You're too anxious to make money and too fond of bullying people.
~ Margaret Mitchell
The pressure began to mount as I kept winning every time and people were anxious to see if I could be beaten.
~ Jahangir Khan
I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have seen me in class - I was blushing and sweating every time the teacher asked me something.
~ Eva Green
Yet I was glad to see her weep, for only first offenders weep, and first offenders are amenable to influence, especially if they have been led into wrong by impulse, and are weak rather than wicked. Anxious
~ Anna Katharine Green
Still, there was an anxious look about her eye, by which I knew that she had some trouble.
~ Anna Sewell
It was great, wasn't it? Really exciting stuff. (Chris) Like having my teeth drilled without Novocain. (Cassandra)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dr. G, a sixteen foot, aging giraffe was sprawled awkwardly on a couch half his size. Cat and Tort sat on a love seat waiting anxiously for the Doctor to start. The towering Doctor started with… "Can we begin?" The giraffe paused and cocked his massive head towards the wall that displayed his numerous degrees. "Of course we can begin. I'm the damned Shrink here.
~ John J. Parrino
She was anxious to be someone, and, no one having ever voiced a prejudice in her hearing without impressing her, had come to associate prejudice with identity. You could not be someone without disliking things.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
It's funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It's like being backstage and hoping you don't trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant.
~ Ashley Judd
When I read the news that Wonder Woman was going to be resurrected for a blockbuster movie in 2016, 'Batman vs. Superman', it made me excited - and anxious. Would the producers give her a role as fierce as her origins - and maybe some shoulder straps - or would she just be cartoon eye candy?
~ Amanda Foreman
I love throwing parties and being sociable and dancing. But I also have this other homebody side and can become quite isolated and anxious.
~ Kate Nash