Anxious Quotes
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Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.
Oscar Wilde
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Once you pay attention to your physical sensations, the next step is to label them, as in “When I feel anxious, I feel a crushing sensation in my chest.
Bessel van der Kolk
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The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him.
Confucius
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In a conversation, the words can get stuck, I don't know what to say, I get very anxious.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned.
Raymond Williams
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The Victorians had not been anxious to go away for the weekend. The Edwardians, on the contrary, were nomadic.
T. H. White
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Whatever happens is going to happen, whether you're sitting by the phone anxious and worried about it or not.
Julia Roberts
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I'm in my best shape when I'm really anxious, because I have to get to the gym. Physically I'm in the best shape.
Vinny Guadagnino
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We're like old people now playing music. I'm so glad we stuck it out because it's a lot better. I used to feel kind of anxious. Now our apprenticeship is over.
Thurston Moore Sonic Youth
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God made men by baking them in an oven, but he forgot about the first batch, and that's how Black people were born. And then he was so anxious about the next batch, he took them out of the oven too soon, so that's how White people were made. But the third batch he let cook until they were golden-golden-golden, and, honey, that's you and me.
Sandra Cisneros
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Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?
David Markson
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Every year coming into the season, I'm always the most anxious because you want to see what you are. How competitive are we? How tough are we? What's our attitude?. And what's the players' demeanor in the locker room and coming out of the tunnel?
Bob Stoops
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If you are anxious, if you doubt yourself, if you stress over everything, it ultimately means you really care about what you do.
Amy Macdonald
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Walsall have given City more than one anxious moment amongst many anxious moments
Denis Law
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I've been really anxious to get back on the football field. The main thing now is its over with.
Braylon Edwards
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I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless.
Whitney M. Young
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The Bible says, Be anxious for nothing, and that is a commandment! I took up a battle in this area, fought my way through and avoided having to be anxious! You can agonize over something for ages and plague yourself and those around you. It's much better to fight your way through as soon as it comes up.
Esther Smith
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When I used to do tours, I'd be anxious and nervous on the plane returning to New York. I now realize the reaction was because I was coming back unemployed. Actors are constantly being put to the test.
Scott Bakula
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A person who is anxious to be a leader of the fashion, or one of the first to follow it, will certainly appear in the eyes of judicious men to have nothing better than a frequent change of dress to recommend him to notice.
George Washington
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I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing.
Judy Holliday
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Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.
Albert Camus
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This is not my phrase, but if you're stuck in the past, then you're depressed. If you're stuck in the future, then you're anxious.
Tim Ferriss
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I know mortality exists, but I cannot do anything about it. So it does not make me anxious.
Renato Dulbecco