Anxious Quotes - Page 15

• Art is always the index of social vitality, the moving finger that records the destiny of a civilization. A wise statesman should keep an anxious eye on this graph, for it is more significant than a decline in exports or a fall in the value of a nation's currency.

  Herbert Read

  Wise, Art, Fall

  Herbert Read (2002). “To Hell with Culture: And Other Essays on Art and Society”, p.28, Psychology Press

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• When I start writing songs, and they come easily, I'm always very suspicious. That usually means they're reminding me of something I've already done before. When the songs become unsettling, and I feel anxious about what I'm doing, that usually means it's going to be more interesting later on when we actually record the stuff.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Writing, Mean

  "Nick Cave on the Evolution of His Music". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. January 28, 2014.

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• Fathers can seem powerful and overwhelming to their daughters. Let her see your soft side. Express your feelings and reactions. Tell her where you came from and how you got there. Let her see that you have had fears, failures, anxious times, hurts, just like hers, even though you may look flawless to her.

  Stella Chess

  Daughter, Hurt, Powerful

  Stella Chess, Jane Whitbread (1978). “Daughters: from infancy to independence”

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• Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down by the encroachments of time; but while they loiter, they and their works both fall prey to the arch enemy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Fall, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1003, Delphi Classics

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• You are anxious before every game because you had to win it. If you didn't you went down the ladder. I felt proud of the way we beat some teams in tough games.

  Sourav Ganguly

  Team, Winning, Games

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• I'm anxious to face them (major league pitchers) all, but in reality I'm looking forward most to (Boston's) Pedro Martinez. He was with the major league team that came to Japan in 1996, just before he became a superstar. I'm anxious to see how much he's improved. And I'm anxious to see how much I've improved against him.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Team, Reality, Japan

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• The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

  Erich Fromm

  Giving Up, Loss, Self

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.190, Open Road Media

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• I see a redness suddenly come
  Into the evening's anxious breast--
  'Tis the wound of love goes home!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Home, Evening, Breasts

  D.H. Lawrence (2016). “Snake and Other Poems”, p.7, Courier Dover Publications

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• She walked quickly around her one-room apartment. After more than four years in this one home she knew all its possibilities, how it could put on a sham appearance of warmth and welcome when she needed a place to hide in, how it stood over her in the night when she woke suddenly, how it could relax itself into a disagreeable unmade, badly-put-together state, mornings like this, anxious to drive her out and go back to sleep.

  Shirley Jackson

  Morning, Women, Home

  Shirley Jackson (1966). “The Magic of Shirley Jackson”, p.106, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• That man has the fewest wants who is the least anxious for wealth.

  Publilius Syrus

  Men, Want, Wealth

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• Even speed, when we are anxious, seems like delay.

  Publilius Syrus

  Delay, Speed, Seems

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• It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Gossip, Speak, Easy

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• During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Struggle, Given, I Am What I Am

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (1976). “Personal geography: almost an autobiography”, Stephen Greene Press

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• If the mood is overly anxious, then anxiety must be reduced by lowering uncertainty. Very simply, uncertainty is reduced when people are told what's going on and what will happen to them. In the vacuum of no news, people imagine the worst. Since disappointment is much easier to handle than anxiety, then, good news or bad, honesty is honestly the best policy.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Honesty, Disappointment, People

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• I'm a really anxious person, so I tend not to keep secrets. I tend not to even want to hear them. It's too nerve-wracking for me to try and keep things from people.

  James Scott

  People, Secret, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I played maybe one and a half games of Little League. The whole atmosphere of anxious parents and more anxious children was just too much for me.

  Harrison Ford

  Children, Games, League

  "42 Interview with Harrison Ford, Chadwick Boseman & Brian Helgeland". www.moviesonline.ca.

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• The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.

  John Vianney

  Baby, Forgiving, Burning

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• Zion, thou art doubtless anxious for news of thy captives; they ask after thee, they who are the remainder of thy flock.

  Judah Halevi

  Art, Zion, News

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• Go in all simplicity; do not be anxious to win a quiet mind, and it will be all the quieter. Do not examine so closely into the progress of your soul. Do not crave too much to be perfect, but let your spiritual life beformed by your duties, and by the actions which are called forth by circumstances.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Spiritual, Winning, Perfect

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• The Lord is my peace. I shall not live in anxiety. He puts me under His wing of comfort and calms my spirit within me. He takes all my anxieties on Himself and helps me to focus on Him. Yes, though I walk through a time of grave uncertainties and fierce anxieties, I will not fret - for You are my peace. Your Word and Your presence calm me now. You hold my uncertainties in the palm of Your hand. You soothe my anxious mind - You smooth my wrinkled brow. Surely serenity and trust in You shall fill me all the days of my life. And I shall keep my mind stayed on You forever.

  Linda Dillow

  Hands, Wings, Focus

  Linda Dillow (2014). “My Journey to Contentment: A Companion Journal for Calm My Anxious Heart”, p.191, Tyndale House

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• Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all.... Eventually I profited by looking like myself and not like what was fashionable years ago with certain film technicians in Rome.

  Sophia Loren

  Rome, Years, Film

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• I started to make harder jokes before anyone else did. And the producers would get anxious. They'd say, 'That's a little bit hard-edged, isn't it?' And I'd say, 'Let's just try it and see how the audience reacts. If they don't like it, let's cut it out.' And the audience roared with laughter, so I learned you could do this harder humor and people loved it.

  John Cleese

  Laughter, Cutting, People

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• There are two amendments only which I am anxious for: 1. A bill of rights, which it is so much the interest of all to have that I conceive it must be yielded...2. The restoring of the principle of necessary rotation, particularly to the Senate and Presidency, but most of all to the last.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Two, Principles

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• I affirm that gain is precisely that which comes oftener to the bad man than to the good; for illegitimate gains never come to the good at all, because they reject them. And lawful gains rarely come to the good, because, since much anxious care is needful thereto, and the anxious care of the good man is directed to weightier matters, rarely does the good man give sufficient attention thereto. Wherefore it is clear that in every way the advent of these riches is iniquitous.

  Dante Alighieri

  Men, Giving, Good Man

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• Philosophy for me is essentially atheistic. Now that's an anxious atheism. It's an atheism that is anxious because it inhabits questions that were resolved religiously in the pre-modern period.

  Simon Critchley

  Philosophy, Atheism, Modern

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