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Quotes About Worried

Perhaps he could still weave together the broken threads of his life. And yet, I wanted him here now. I needed him here. In the darkness, if I sat very still, I could almost feel his presence by me, quite near, but not too near. Didn't I promise to keep you safe, he would say softly. I have never broken a promise. Don't look so worried, Jenny. And yet, he would be careful. Careful not to move too close. Careful not to frighten me. Waiting still. I am your shelter. Don't be afraid.
~ Juliet Marillier
Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons. This makes readers feel hurt and worried for the characters. The simple truth is that authors like making people squirm. If this weren't the case, all novels would be filled completely with cute bunnies having birthday parties.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I felt hollowed out. Empty. Not afraid, of course. I bathed in fires of destruction and reveled in the screams of the defeated. I didn't get afraid. But maybe, deep down, I was…worried.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Nie popeÅ'niono ?adnego bÅ'Ä™du. W ogóle jestem nieco zaniepokojony, Afraniuszu, najwyra?niej mam do czynienia z czÅ'owiekiem, który nigdy nie popeÅ'nia bÅ'Ä™dów. CzÅ'owiekiem ów to ty.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
The phone rang about five minutes later. Powell Moore wanted to know if the committee's second statement had made the paper. Bernstein said it had, as well as Mitchell's additional comments on the matter. Moore sounded worried. What had the Attorney General said? Bernstein read him the insert and told him it was already being set in type. "Oh," said Moore.
~ Carl Bernstein
Don't you ever feel . . . lost in your universe? How do you know what to do, how to behave, if there's no God? Just obey the law or get arrested?" "You're not worried about being lost, Palmer. You're worried about not being central, not the reason the universe was created.
~ Carl Sagan
As I watched, I was wondering how many of them were suffering from something, trying to recover from something. How many of them had lost a loved one or were suffering from a broken heart? How many of them were worried about a loved one? A child. A parent. A friend.
~ Terry McMillan
G-d does not play games with His loyal servants, said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice. Whooo-eee, said Crowley. Where have you been?
~ Terry Pratchett
God does not play games with His loyal servants, said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice. Whoopee, said Crowley.
~ Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
But that day I was anxious. I was nervous and worried, uneasy and distracted. I paced around and never felt settled. I didn't care for the sensation, yet I realized it was possibly a natural progression of my evolving soul, and therefore I tried my best to embrace it.
~ Garth Stein
They needn't have worried. Three hundred men, it turned out, were not enough to massacre a man like Bussy.* The assassination attempt had not only failed, it backfired completely by adding to the warrior's renown.
~ Nancy Goldstone
him. Not that a hint of his thoughts showed on his face when he walked into The Rainier Room, one of the smaller meeting rooms. Half a dozen worried-looking executives were settling
~ Nancy Warren
Wie fühlen Sie sich?', fragte der Arzt. 'Etwas in Sorge, ehrlich gesagt. Ich habe geträumt, dass mich Jesus Christus besucht und wir ein langes, tiefgehendes Gespräch geführt haben.' 'Worüber?' 'Hauptsächlich über Fußball.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Ever since people are kids they use their parents as some sort of measurement for how bad a situation is. When you fall on the ground really hard and you can't figure out whether it hurts or not you look to your parents. If they look worried and rush toward you, you cry. If they laugh and smack the ground saying "Bold ground," then you pick yourself up and get on with it.
~ Cecelia Ahern
The fundamentalists were equally stymied. "We were worried about Adam and Steve," a Baptist minister said. "Should we have been more worried about Rover and Fluffy?
~ Charlaine Harris
I don't like the way the cage is set up. I think it's really dangerous that the metal comes up about three inches off the ground. People were putting their foot on it. I can see it. And I was worried about being taken down and landing backwards with my elbow. and damaging my elbow or even my head.
~ Nick Diaz
And if this random, aimless driving worried parents, the driving was certainly preferable to the parking. More girls got pregnant in the summer than during the other three quarters of the year.
~ Kathleen Gilles Seidel
The water dumped on the fire was now as much a problem as a solution. The librarians always worried more about floods than fire, and now they had both.
~ Susan Orlean
I'm easily frightened and am somewhat of a squeamish person.
~ Phoebe Robinson
We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering their classmates because of video games.
~ Tom Bissell
Anyway, at a certain point in my early twenties, my mother started to become worried about my obviously ever-increasing drug ingestion. So she ended up doing what any concerned parent would do. She called Cary Grant.
~ Carrie Fisher
The midwife looked about on the floor, as if worried for a moment that Alice's nose had actually dropped off.
~ Georgia Byng
We were worried that our main speaker wouldn't be able to make it tonight. But, fortunately, due to a hole in the prosecution's case . . .
~ Anonymous
Cold? Nervous?
~ Jaci Burton