Quotes About Preoccupation

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection.

In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable.

Overblown responsibility was a part of my preoccupation with myself.

Poppa was going to bury them when he was up to it, but he was becoming more and more preoccupied with the news, at all hours of the day. His handyman abilities were slowly atrophying. Overwhelming input and feeble output, he'd say, that's my problem now.

When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.

Children deprived of food in an attempt to be thin become preoccupied with food, afraid they won't get enough to eat, and are prone to overeat when they get the chance.

There is legitimate pleasure, which is not wrong, but we are not to become so preoccupied with its activities that it takes the place of God.

I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.

Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.

Pills and fortune-telling and dieting: nobody can stop her when it comes to any of those things.

It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.

Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.

La actual preocupación casi histérica por la seguridad es en el mejor de los casos un derroche de recursos y un obstáculo para el espíritu humano, y en el peor de los casos una invitación al totalitarismo. Se necesita con urgencia educación pública.

Your love for Jesus Christ and your discipleship in His cause must be the consuming preoccupation and passion of your mortality.

People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.

The concern over the origin of institutions dovetailed with a second preoccupation, which was the real-world problems of weak and failed states.

Play has been man's most useful preoccupation.

Preoccupation with self is always a major component of unhealthy guilt and recrimination.

More enslaving than our occupations, however, are our preoccupations. To be pre-occupied means to fill our time and place long before we are there. This is worrying in the more specific sense of the word. It is a mind filled with "ifs." We say to ourselves, "What if I get the flu? What if I lose my job? What if my child is not home on time? What if there is not enough food tomorrow? What if I am attacked? What if a war starts? What if the world comes to an end? What if . . . ?

The more preoccupied we are with security the more visible the force of death becomes, whether in the form of a pistol beside our bed, a rifle in our house, or a Trident submarine in our port.

I always watch you. You consume my every thought.

What, after all, is a video game's subtextual preoccupation if not the erasure of mortality?

What after all, is a video game's subtextual preoccupation if not the erasure of mortality?

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.