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• When I was 16, I took the written driving test, just like everybody else did, and I passed it. Then the first time I was behind the wheel of a car, when I was a kid, it kind of freaked me out. I've always been a very anxious student of anything, and so not being able to process things quickly enough, feeling overwhelmed, I just got freaked out and so I just never tried again.

  Paul F. Tompkins

  Kids, Car, Feelings

  "Paul F. Tompkins on how and why he spent 25 years without a driver's license". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. October 10, 2015.

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• Anxious. Intriguing word. It literally means, "to be divided" or "distracted." It conveys the idea of being so mentally ill at ease that you cannot do what you need to do because you are so distracted in your thinking.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

  Charles R. Swindoll (2012). “Perfect Trust”, p.49, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more anxious!

  Heloise

  Fear, Love Is, Might

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• We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.

  James Montgomery Boice

  God, Religious, Future

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• I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless.

  Whitney M. Young

  Thinking, Voice, Hopeless

  "Independent Lens (The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. February 18, 2013.

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• You can't use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.

  Bill Crawford

  Anxiety, Use, Deals

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• Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He hasn't Learnt in Books, but he can always Think of a Clever Plan. There's Kanga. She isn't Clever, Kanga isn't, but she would be so anxious about Roo that she would do a Good Thing to Do without thinking about it. And then there's Eeyore. And Eeyore is so miserable anyhow that he wouldn't mind about this.

  A. A. Milne

  Clever, Silly, Book

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.101, Egmont UK

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• Detectives are only human; we're not Gods that know everything. When detectives tell their theory, in reality, most are rather anxious. Thinking that there's always possibility that they could have missed something, somewhere... But in return, the excitement you experience when your theory's smack bang correct is twice as great!

  Gosho Aoyama

  Reality, Thinking, Bangs

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• You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, “What if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go and I drift into space?” Does that ever make you anxious?

  Elaine May

  Letting Go, Lying, Night

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• Trust in the Lord is the only true antidote to fear. Focusing on God rather than the trial will keep us from sinking in fear. However, learning to face our fears does not mean we will never have another anxious moment. Faith does not lie in trusting God to stop the storm, but in trusting Him to enable us to walk through the storm. When trouble occurs, He will give us the ability to cope with it.

  Jill Briscoe

  Faith, Religious, Lying

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• The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up.

  Susan Cain

  Pressure, Sells

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.31, Broadway Books

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• Reading a book, for me at least, is like traveling in someone else's world. If it's a good book, then you feel comfortable and yet anxious to see what's going to happen to you there, what'll be around the next corner. But if it's a lousy book, then it's like going through Secaucus, New Jersey -- it smells and you wish you weren't there, but since you've started the trip, you roll up the windows and breathe through your mouth until you're done.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Book, Reading, Smell

  Jonathan Carroll (2010). “The Land of Laughs: A Novel”, p.88, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.

  James Agee

  Fall, Writing, Vocabulary

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• Pasteur himself was absolutely fearless. Anxious to secure a sample of saliva straight from the jaws of a rabid dog, I once saw him with the glass tube held between his lips draw a few drops of the deadly saliva from the mouth of a rabid bull-dog, held on the table by two assistants, their hands protected by leather gloves.

  Axel Munthe

  Dog, Glasses, Hands

  Axel Munthe (1930). “The Story of San Michele”

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• Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor and on they go as their fathers went before them till weary and sick at heart they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood.

  Samuel Rogers

  Regret, Father, Heart

  Samuel Rogers (1842). “Italy, a Poem”, p.178

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• For the first time in weeks, Park didn't have that anxious feeling in his stomach on the way home from school, like he had to soak up enough Eleanor to keep him until the next day.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Home, School, Next Day

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Eleanor & Park”, p.121, Macmillan

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• That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Photography, Character, Men

  "Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, transl. by T. Bailey Saunders , Vol. 2, Ch. 29, § 377, 1851.

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• The Master said, A gentleman, in his plans, thinks of the Way; he does not think how he is going to make a living. Even farming sometimes entails 5 times of shortage; and even learning may incidentally lead to high pay. But a gentleman's anxieties concern the progress of the Way; he has no anxiety concerning poverty.

  Confucius

  Life, Thinking, Gentleman

  "The Analects of Confucius".

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• I am anxious to fix welfare. There has to be more training and child care.

  Janet Yellen

  Children, Training, Care

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• Flow is an optimal state in which you feel totally engaged in an activity...In a state of flow, you're neither bored nor anxious, and you don't question your own adequacy. Hours pass without your noticing.

  Susan Cain

  Bored, Adequacy, Flow

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• I am a former Kleagie of the Klu Klux Klan in Raleigh County and adjoining counties of the state, having been appainted to this office [by] Mr. J. L. Baskin of Arlington, Virginia, in 1942... It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state in the union.

  Robert Byrd

  Virginia, Order, Ku Klux Klan

  "McGovern Would Oppose Byrd; Rules Out ‘a Racist’ for Court" by Fred P. Graham, www.nytimes.com. October 12, 1971.

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• We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned.

  Raymond Williams

  Thinking, Class, Middle

  "Culture and Society". Book by Raymond Williams, 1958.

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• Bear with me on this, Evanlyn. I know you're anxious about Horace." WIll was a little puzzled by Halt's words. "No more anxious than the rest of us, surely," he said. Halt turned away and raised his eyebrows as his gaze met Selethen's. Sometimes, he thought, his former apprentice could be remarkably slow on the uptake. He saw the Arridi's slow nod of understanding. ~Halt & Will about Evanlyn and Horace

  John Flanagan

  Eyebrows, Understanding, Littles

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• Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways -- and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fear, Waiting, Promise

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• If a person cast no shadow at all, he couldn't be alive. His existence became meaningless.Execrating Apophis by destroying his shadow would cut his connection to the mortal world completely. He'd never be able to rise again. I finally understood why he'd been so anxious to burn Setne's scrolls, and he was afraid of this spell. (Carter Kane)

  Rick Riordan

  Cutting, Shadow, Connections

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