Concern Quotes

• Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not the villains of our own stories. In fact, it is quite the contrary: we play, and only play, the hero, and in the swirl of other people's stories, insofar as these stories concern us at all, we are never less than heroic.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Mean
  • Hero
  • Sanity

• My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Moving
  • Justice
  • Convince

• Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.

  

  Mercedes McCambridge
  • Persons
  • Concern
  • Governors

• At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving the others with God's own love and concern.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Heart
  • Christ
  • Advent

• Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Kind
  • Firsts
  • Form

• Well, actually, I'm a psychic being, and you know, we don't concern ourselves with being born; we concern ourselves with being eternal; we deal with the spirit.

  

  Sun Ra
  • Spirit
  • Born
  • Deals

• I wanted to let form lead my thinking, and repetition always confronts you with the interesting problem of how to break out of a cycle that seems so deterministic, which was germane to the story's concerns.

  

  Catherine Brady
  • Interesting
  • Problem
  • Break

• While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity. I seek to find out things about people by making photographs of them.

  

  Dawoud Bey
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Curiosity

• The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Art
  • Artist
  • Audience

• It would not lessen the shock and concern, but it would be something concrete in addition to the apologies.

  

  Celso Amorim
  • Concern
  • Apology
  • Concrete

• And I think more of a concern has been not within the campaign, the mistakes that were made, not being able to react to the circumstances that those mistakes created in a real positive and professional and helpful way for John McCain.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Mistake

• I watch every day when we hit and take ground balls and the way we go about our business. If I saw any lackadaisical approach, that would concern me.

  

  Mike Quade
  • Approach
  • Watches
  • Lackadaisical

• One should learn from the past, but one should not live in the past. My concern is to look to the future, learn from the past, and deal with the present.

  

  George Fernandes
  • Learn
  • Should
  • Looking

• Sometimes concern is the foot someone jams in the door so you can’t close it against condescension, presumption, invasiveness, and, at times, outright abuse.

  

  Hanne Blank
  • Concern
  • Presumption
  • Condescension

• There is mounting concern worldwide over the consumption of alcohol. The U.S. government estimates that 10.6 million adults are alcoholics and that one family in four is troubled by alcohol. It is a factor in half of all the nation's traffic deaths.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Alcohol
  • Concern
  • Adults

• My concern is that we live in an economy in which stabbing someone and waiting for them to complain before we remove the knife has become the normal way of doing business. When did we lose sight of the fact that it's not nice to stab people in the first place?

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Nice
  • Waiting
  • Facts

• Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season.

  

  Wumen Huikai
  • inspirational
  • Summer
  • Autumn

• I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.

  

  Mickey Rooney
  • World
  • Funny
  • Marriage

• The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program.

  

  Mitchell Reiss
  • Program
  • Countries
  • Actually

• As long as the reader is enjoying a story and the writing, it doesn't concern me if people don't understand why it's running backward or if it's running backward. I think disorientating a reader a bit can be really nice. Making them work and bringing their own past to play in a novel.

  

  Evie Wyld
  • Past
  • Enjoy
  • Novel

• I would say that, from an agricultural perspective, I have a little bit of concern, because some of the folks I don't know are particularly supportive of the renewable fuel industry and the renewable fuel standard, which is a big part of certainly Midwestern agriculture. I'm hopeful that, when we see his ultimate selection for ag secretary, that we will see someone who is a strong advocate for renewable fuels, and what that means to Midwestern producers. And, for that matter, now, all over the country, we're seeing more and more of the biofuels being produced from a variety of sources.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Country
  • Strong
  • Mean

• A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Intellect
  • Composition
  • Syllables

• Be different - without concern for what others think.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Different
  • Concern
  • Individuality

• I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.

  

  Paul Rudd
  • Jokes
  • Concern
  • Comedian

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