Quotes About Anxious

He was pleading with her, his eyes anxious, and she found herself responding against all her deeper instincts.

The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.

Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.

Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death!

preferably desperate. And

While you read this, I am imperishable, somehow more alive than I have ever been, in the strength of my youth, with dear ones beside me. You read the dreams of an anxious, fuddled old man, and I live in a light better than any dream of mine—not waiting for you, though, because I want your dear perishable self to live long and to love this poor perishable world...

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

You seem very anxious to lose your life." "To justify my life, Sir.

If we lived the plans we do more as bets than as forecasts, we would be less anxious and more prepared for the unexpected.

Because we have only one (life) we go about blundering along him nervous haste.

Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead.

She was anxious to monitor the political rumblings back home in the United States.28 A new Black leadership was emerging there and changing the social, cultural, and political landscape.

Certainly when 'Legend' came around, I was very anxious to get it because I immediately recognized it as something worth doing.

How much time is wasted in what is called thought, but is merely care--an anxious idling over the fancied probabilities of result

She is ever anxious to aid those who please her. Men of action please her best.

I grew up really timid, anxious kid, and I never really had to stand up for myself.

Today's gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans' pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious.

Alex Korb writes in "The Grateful Brain," "Gratitude can have such a powerful impact on your life because it engages your brain in a virtuous cycle. Your brain only has so much power to focus its attention. It cannot easily focus on both positive and negative stimuli." Literally, you can't be grateful and anxious at the same time. Once again, the threat system in our amygdala is overridden.

To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a duck--paddling, paddling, paddling.

The American people are both anxious for change. We're in a time of flux.

You seem very anxious to lose your life.

Well, of course Miss Morstan too. They were anxious to hear what happened. I would not tell them too much, said Holmes. Women are never to be entirely trusted,—not the best of them. I did not pause to argue over this atrocious sentiment. I shall be back in an hour or two, I remarked.

Working with him was sort of like trying to defuse a bomb with somebody standing behind you and every now and then clashing a pair of cymbals together. In a word, upsetting.

Safetyism deprives young people of the experiences that their antifragile minds need, thereby making them more fragile, anxious, and prone to seeing themselves as victims.