Concern Quotes · Page 27

The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of…

— Joseph Campbell

“It’s like I’d been walking a tightrope with a big safety net underneath me, but I never really thought about the net…

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

For the next century, we've got to put together what we so carelessly tore apart with so little concern for those who…

— Studs Terkel

We are keeping healthier and living longer and I am a good example of someone who is in the Age Concern bracket…

— Susan Hampshire

Nothing will change until we demolish the "we-they" mentality. We are human, and therefore all human concerns are ours. And those concerns…

— Sam Hamill

The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.

— Robert Frost

You're happy when you leave your concerns to the side and when you experience a pure moment of joy with friends.

— Pascal Bruckner

I still believe that term limits is the best way to ensure that the next generation, not the next election, is the…

— Tom Coburn

Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile,…

— Henry Fielding

I'd always had a hankering to write some old-school sword and sorcery. And there certainly are advantages to that particular form -…

— Richard K. Morgan

If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done…

— Dick Durbin

But why should not the New Englander try new adventures - not lay so much stress on his grain, his potato and…

— Henry David Thoreau

If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger…

— Chin-Ning Chu

If out of concern over cloning, the U.S. Congress succeeds in criminalizing embryonic stem-cell research that might bring treatments for Alzheimer's disease…

— Gregory Stock

Education, if it means anything, should not take people away from the land, but instill in them even more respect for it,…

— Wangari Maathai

Sometimes, with leaders, the stakes are very high indeed. Churchill, in WWII, for example, could not afford to utter publicly his concerns…

— Nick Morgan

You hate America, don't you?' That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I…

— Socrates

Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought…

— Conrad Hyers

This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all…

— Aldous Huxley

So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd With the dead boughs…

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far…

— Abraham Lincoln

Charitable endeavour exalts the prestige and the status of the giver. This may sound unduly cynical but as with all philantrophic activity,…

— David Cannadine

I understand and respect people who say they want to boycott the Trump brand. I also respect your right to buy his…

— Michelle Singletary

Now, again, what the center ground has got to do is to respond to people's genuine concerns and fears.

— Tony Blair

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.

— Wynton Marsalis

Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.

— Russell Page

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He…

— Billy Graham

I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.

— Yitzhak Shamir

We wish Pakistan both stability and security; we expect them to understand our legitimate concerns of preventing people from using its soil…

— Salman Khurshid

Interest rates do not have to be identical across the whole euro area, but it is unacceptable if major differences arise from…

— Mario Draghi

I concern myself with timelessness all the time. If you're not swinging for museum quality, your mind is not in the right…

— Rodney Crowell

But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's…

— Philip Kaufman

I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author.

— Cate Marvin

On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store…

— Clive Anderson

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern…

— Miguel de Unamuno

I've met with a group of very distinguished, experienced police chiefs a few weeks ago. They admit it's an issue. They've got…

— Hillary Clinton

If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no…

— Benjamin Disraeli

[Donald] Trump continues to dismiss those concerns though, even as some Republicans, like Lindsay Graham, are making the case that Trump's business…

— Chuck Todd