"Tenterhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat." — Robert E. Sherwood

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• What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition… — Aristotle
• Now is the age of anxiety. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we… — Lord Acton
• I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart… — Alan Ball
• I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special. — Clive Barker
• Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence… — Clive Barker
• First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of… — Saint Basil
• Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety. — Bob Beauprez
• Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes… — Martha Beck
• Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of… — Henry Ward Beecher
• The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear. — Josh Billings
• A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. — Aesop

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