Anxious Quotes

566 Anxious quotes by 482 unique authors

And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government a perpetual, anxious,… — Alexander Hamilton
My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners… — George Washington
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor. — George Bernard Shaw
If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in. — Herbert Benson
I've talked with people of stature-of military and government credentials and position-and heard their stories, and their desire to tell their stories openly to the… — Edgar Mitchell
If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path. — Marty Allen
Early on in my career I had the kind of anxious where you couldn't sleep at night. That anxiousness is like a virus we all… — Bernard Hopkins
The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light… — Albert Einstein
They were showing clips from my earlier films. All I could see was this beautiful young woman who was anxious about whether she was too… — Meryl Streep
I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry. — Maya Rudolph
When I was about 7 years old, I had been labeled dyslexic. I'd try to concentrate on what I was reading, then I'd get to… — Tom Cruise
New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign, — Alec Baldwin
A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts! — Albert Brooks
I got so anxious sitting in the make-up chair for hours with my face covered. I had my doctor write a prescription for valium. I… — Kim Hunter
One of the greatest challenges I've faced as a mother-especially in these anxious, winner-takes-all times-is the need to resist the urge to accept someone else's… — Katrina Kenison
Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime. — Arabella Weir
For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways - to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak… — Richard M. Nixon
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for. — Benjamin Haydon
[My mother] speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post… — Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Life's too short for anxious score-keeping — Teju Cole

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