One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I tend to worry too much and at the end of all the preoccupation nothing goes wrong.” — Ana Monnar Copy Share Image
I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age,… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Why should you worry whether God wants you to reach the heavenly home by way of the desert or by the fields,… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
Today the heart of God is an open wound of love. He aches over our distance and preoccupation. He mourns that we… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is a silence that matches our best possibilities when we have learned to listen to others. We can master the art… — Eugene Kennedy Copy Share Image
At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with GOD Himself. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
I have had, like most women, a lifelong preoccupation with my weight. My first published short story was a love story between… — Lori Lansens Copy Share Image
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
...we live in an era of terrible preoccupation with presentation and interpretation, one in which relations between who someone is and what… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
So go marry someone, provided you're equally yoked and you actually like being with each other. Go get a job, provided it's… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
An abiding preoccupation for me is how much of our lives are invisible and unknown by other people, like the Chekhov story… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society. — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
