Anxious Quotes

566 Anxious quotes by 482 unique authors

When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to… — C.S. Lewis
To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left. — Daniel Handler
So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited and we grow anxious and unhappy, we are lacking in… — Paramahansa Yogananda
His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with… — Angela Carter
What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the… — Lynne Truss
O how all things are far removed and long have passed away. I do believe the star, whose light my face reflects, is dead and… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can… — Rumer Godden
Among the real heroines in the world who will come into the Church are women who are more concerned with being righteous than with being… — Spencer W. Kimball
There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after… — James A. Baldwin
Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is… — Joan Didion
But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle;… — Erich Maria Remarque
I was no fool; I was aware that when another man is too anxious to force money on one, it is time to examine the… — Robert A. Heinlein
End production today. Wrap party as usual a little sad. Slow danced with Scarlett. Broke her toe. Not my fault. When she dipped me back,… — Woody Allen
Sarah took a deep breath and set off along the passageway again. A clump of lichen on the gatepost opened its eyes and watched her… — A.C.H. Smith
I soon discovered that if you keep your mouth shut, people are apt to believe you know everything, and they begin to feel freer and… — Audre Lorde
Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character. — Donald Hall
For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the higher… — Chuck Palahniuk
Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world. — Edna O'Brien
its like you said? i lead my people-" forth!" zifnab carried on enthusiastically! " out of eygpt! out of bondage! across the desert! pillar of… — Margaret Weis
But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations… — Brenda Ueland
His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children. — Ann Brashares
He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call.… — Irvin D. Yalom
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we… — Mark Twain
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… — Oscar Wilde

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