Anxious Quotes

566 Anxious quotes by 482 unique authors

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it… — Winston Churchill
It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even… — Mahatma Gandhi
That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They are afraid of a populace… — Jeff Cooper
That evening I went for a walk. To walk for the sake of walking is something I seldom do. Inside my apartment I'd felt inexplicably… — Daniel Quinn
The age of the earth was thus increased from a mere score of millions [of years] to a thousand millions and more, and the geologist… — William Johnson Sollas
Most of God's people are contented to be saved from the hell that is without; they are not so anxious to be saved from the… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear… — Jerome K. Jerome
The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live. — Alexander Sutherland Neill
Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world. — Sylvia Plath
We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal… — Sigmund Freud
Grant began by expressing a hope that the war would soon be over, and Lee replied by stating that he had for some time been… — Horace Porter
"Oil remains fundamentally a government business. While many regions of the world offer great oil opportunities, the Middle East with two-thirds of the world's oil… — Dick Cheney
I love peace, and am anxious that we should give the world still another useful lesson, by showing to them other modes of punishing injuries… — Thomas Jefferson
I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss… — Lewis Carroll
What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its… — Horace
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest… — Seneca the Younger
I can promise you that the Spirit is a lot more anxious to help you than you are to be helped. — S. Dilworth Young
Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony; is it from charity, or revenge ?. — Louis Gustave Vapereau
The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious to exploit the… — Douglass North
It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that… — Thomas A. Edison

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