Concern Quotes

1803 Concern quotes by 1305 unique authors

If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and… — Stephen King
. . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are,… — Kim Addonizio
I do not concern myself with my inability to feel such comfort amidst humans (other than with very few friends and family), but, rather, am… — Rick Bass
There's a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need," Morrie said. "You need food, you want a chocolate sundae.… — Mitch Albom
Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare. — Amy Hempel
We have these earthly bodies. We don't know what they want. Half the time, we pretend they are under our mental thumb, but that is… — Louise Erdrich
To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many… — Thomas Merton
We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit… — David Mamet
When you love someone deeply, you know secrets they haven't told you yet. Or secrets they aren't even aware of themselves. ... She was also… — Jonathan Carroll
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important,… — Albert Einstein
Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of… — Arthur C. Clarke
Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those… — Boris Pasternak
We should resolve now that the health of this nation is a national concern; that financial barriers in the way of attaining health shall be… — Harry S. Truman
The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but… — Max Stirner
What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it… — Joseph Brodsky
The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers… — W. Somerset Maugham
Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow… — Corrie Ten Boom
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch… — Jane Austen
I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is… — Terry Tempest Williams
Justice and mercy/ Are human dreams, they do not concern the birds nor the fish nor eternal God. — Robinson Jeffers
Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern men of action.… — Joseph Campbell
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern. — Ronald Reagan

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