Anxious Quotes - Page 25

• I have a phobia of checking voicemail. I watched a lot of TV as a kid, and everything is, like, you're gonna get kidnapped, or somebody's gonna die, or killer bees are going to take you out. I'm a very anxious person.

  Annie E. Clark

  Kids, Killers, Tvs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with the circumspect tenderness of comrades who are amputees, for we were surrounded by the most moving images of evanesecence, fireworks, morning glories, the old, children. But the most moving of these images were the intagible relfections of ourselves we saw in one another's eyes, reflections of nothing but appearances, in a city dedicated to seeming, and, try as we might to possess the essence of each other's otherness, we would inevitably fail.

  Angela Carter

  Morning, Children, Moving

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• What we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a hierarchy, you probably are immediately anxious about going further down and you're striving to go further up, so your energies get placed into becoming "more than," or at least not becoming "less than," instead of becoming "part of."

  Gloria Steinem

  Childhood, Energy, Down And

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It was a film that I knew, that I had seen, that I was familiar with, but I wasn't anxious about it at any point during the screening. I snoozed twice, and this is something I couldn't have imagined that I would feel detached, as I did with this film [Certified Copy].

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Film, Familiar, Copies

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 17, 2011.

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• I would sit and talk to any president who wishes to talk to me, but I'm not anxious to rule it in.

  Colin Powell

  Wish, President, Talk To Me

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Whenever I felt tempted to, I don’t know, watch cat videos or bad Netflix TV instead of writing this Brandeis biography, I thought of his stern but kindly visage and buckled down and wrote the damn thing, because there’s so much information out there, and these are such anxious times in democracy, such unreasonable times.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Writing, Cat, Democracy

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• The Bible says, Be anxious for nothing, and that is a commandment! I took up a battle in this area, fought my way through and avoided having to be anxious! You can agonize over something for ages and plague yourself and those around you. It's much better to fight your way through as soon as it comes up.

  Esther Smith

  Fighting, Age, Battle

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• Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to learn what we do not know.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Learning, Desire, Ability

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• Really, a nightmare just really has to evoke some sort of, we call it, dysphoric emotion or something uncomfortable. You could be sad, you could be unhappy; you could be scared, anxious. But traditionally, the definition is you have to awaken from this nightmare.

  Shelby Harris

  Unhappy, Definitions, Emotion

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• To sum it all up, then, what is needed for happy and effectual service is simply to put your work into the Lord's hands, and leave it there. Do not take it to Him in prayer, saying, “Lord, guide me, Lord, give me wisdom, Lord, arrange for me,” and then arise from your knees and take the burden all back, and try to guide and arrange for yourself. Leave it with the Lord; and remember that what you trust to Him you must not worry over nor feel anxious about. Trust and worry cannot go together.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Prayer, Hands, Giving

  "Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume".

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• The young among us are, as a general thing, allied to the world. But few maintain a special warfare against the internal foe. But few have an earnest, anxious desire to know and do the will of God.

  Ellen G. White

  Special, Desire, Warfare

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• We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Truth, Facts, Dissonance

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• Love is a thing full of anxious fears.

  Ovid

  Life, Love Is

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• We couldn't get it off the ground as a film, but then we begin to think television, and Lowell pushed it out there and Jim and Nick were anxious to do Hap and Leonard anyway, and I had worked with them before, so it was a perfect story. I love the series. I hope there's a second.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Thinking, Perfect, Stories

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'm always anxious in introducing sounds that don't originate with the cello.

  Julia Kent

  Sound, Introducing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In a conversation, the words can get stuck, I don't know what to say, I get very anxious.

  Florence Welch

  Conversation, Stuck, Knows

  "Florence and the Machine Announce New LP". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 23, 2011.

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• Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately loving, fearing part of me.

  Frederick Buechner

  Religious, Prayer

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents.
  Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Mother, Peace

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• These past years have been really transitional for me in every aspect - personally, emotionally and professionally. I was excited and nervous and anxious because I literally had nothing to fall back on. This is my own thing, it's all me. I spent a year working on the record and really wanted to spend time on what it was going to represent and how it was going to represent me in this time in my life.

  Selena Gomez

  Fall, Past, Years

  "Selena Gomez Details Her Style ‘Revival’". Interview with Lauren McCarthy, wwd.com. October 7, 2015.

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• I was particularly anxious that I shoot the tires out of the class system. All it is these days is a hobby of certain masochists, and certain sadists.

  William Monahan

  Class, Hobbies, Tire

  Source: collider.com

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• But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Father, Anxiety

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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• Napping is too luxurious, too sybaritic, too unproductive, and it's free; pleasures for which we don't pay make us anxious. Besides, it seems to be a natural inclination. ... Fighting off natural inclinations is a major Puritan virtue, and nothing that feels that good can be respectable.

  Barbara Holland

  Sleep, Fighting, Pay

  "Literature,one screen at a time" by Alex Beam, www.nytimes.com. November 16, 2005.

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• If you are anxious about a business deal or worried about your job, you are seeing failure as a possibility. And having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means of realization of the end. It is a shocking truth we should never forget.

  Eric Butterworth

  Courage, Jobs, Mean

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• With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Blood, Ideas

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• When we played against Dan Marino, the best defense was to keep him on the sideline. By keeping him on the sideline, you made him frustrated. You made him anxious. When he came on the field, he felt like he had to score every time. I think that is where Peyton Manning is.

  Boomer Esiason

  Sports, Thinking, Frustrated

  "5 Questions For Boomer Esiason". Interview with Andrew Marchand, nypost.com. November 24, 2006.

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