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Quotes About Worry

When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice,' Amos liked to say. 'Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.
~ Michael Lewis
But if you worry about everything, you wind up worrying about nothing.
~ Michael Lewis
When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos liked to say. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.
~ Michael Lewis
When your daughter is late and you worry, it fills your mind even when you know there is very little to fear." You'd pay more than you should to rid yourself of that worry.
~ Michael Lewis
Amos willed himself to be optimistic, because he had decided pessimism was stupid. When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos liked to say. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.
~ Michael Lewis
pessimism was stupid. When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos liked to say. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.
~ Michael Lewis
Spivey was a worrier. He thought that when a person took risks, the thing that went wrong was usually a thing the person hadn't thought about, and so he tried to think about the things he wouldn't naturally think about.
~ Michael Lewis
My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.
~ Michael Pollan
Alas, most of the time I inhabit a near-future tense, my psychic thermostat set to a low simmer of anticipation and, too often, worry. The good thing is I'm seldom surprised. The bad thing is I'm seldom surprised.
~ Michael Pollan
I know my positions hurt him. In his political future it hurts him. I worry that my son will have to pay for the sin of his father. I will not change my belief, but it hurts like crazy.
~ Ruben Diaz Sr.
I just always had this feeling inside me of always being nervous and afraid of situations.
~ Jonathan Knight
She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love.
~ Veronica Roth, Allegiant
I love the little suckers; they're so cute. But I love sleep so much, and I worry about everything.
~ Eva Mendes
Fear drives away love. Without love, there is no surrender of all our inner cares and worries to the Mahanta (our inner guide).
~ Harold Klemp
Didn't grown-ups think children worried about anything but jack-o'-lanterns? Didn't they know children worried about grown-ups?
~ Beverly Cleary
What this means in practice is that if you are not a born worrier you have nothing to worry about (though of course you wouldn't be worrying anyway), whereas if you are a worrier by nature there is absolutely nothing you can do about it, so you may as well stop worrying, except of course you can't.
~ Bill Bryson
The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.
~ Bill Bryson
New Rule: You don't need a paper shredder. I've seen your mail--it's not that interesting. What are you worried about, that the magazine from the auto club might fall into the wrong hands? I hate to break it to you 007, but the Victoria's Secret catalog isn't actually a secret.
~ Bill Maher
Happiness isn't only about what you have It's also about What you don't have to worry about Bill Maher Real Time with Bill Maher March 29, 2019
~ Bill Maher
I envy Muhammad Ali. He faces a possible five years in jail and he has been stripped of his heavyweight championship, but I still envy him. He has something I have never been able to attain and something very few people I know possess. He has an absolute and sincere faith. I'm not worried about Muhammad Ali. He is better equipped than anyone I know to withstand the trials in store for him. What I'm worried about is the rest of us.
~ Bill Russell
As I sat in the hotel room, I realized that in fact I had left my heavenly Father again. By allowing myself to become anxious, I had run off from His comforting Presence. When would I learn that I cannot worry and trust God at the same time! I relaxed in my chair and felt at peace again. "Oh, thank You, Father," I said weeping in relief. "Please forgive me for stepping away from You. You are here, You are in that hall. I'll be all right.
~ Bilquis Sheikh
By allowing myself to become anxious, I had run off from His comforting Presence. When would I learn that I cannot worry and trust God at the same time! I relaxed in my chair and felt at peace again.
~ Bilquis Sheikh
Grams calls them worry crumbs those leftover bits of an uncomfortable idea. She fixes worry crumbs with sayings and she has one to fit almost any size mess or confusion.
~ Blue Balliett
El miedo existe en imaginarse las cosas malas antes que ocurran
~ Borges, Jorge Luis