Anxious Quotes - Page 29

• We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal in position and worth.

  Sigmund Freud

  Sex, Two, Feminist

  Sigmund Freud, Philip Rieff (1997). “Sexuality and The Psychology of Love”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• Grant began by expressing a hope that the war would soon be over, and Lee replied by stating that he had for some time been anxious to stop the further effusion of blood, and he trusted that everything would now be done to restore harmony and conciliate the people of the South. He said the emancipation of the Negroes would be no hindrance to the restoring of relations between the two sections of the country, as it would probably not be the desire of the majority of the Southern people to restore slavery then, even if the question were left open to them.

  Horace Porter

  Country, War, Blood

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• Oil remains fundamentally a government business. While many regions of the world offer great oil opportunities, the Middle East with two-thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies, even though companies are anxious for greater access there, progress continues to be slow.

  Dick Cheney

  Lying, War, Opportunity

  "Libya: another neocon war" by David Swanson, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2011.

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• I love peace, and am anxious that we should give the world still another useful lesson, by showing to them other modes of punishing injuries than by war, which is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, Punishment

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.135, Algora Publishing

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• I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss is another thing altogether, and an amusement I cannot well afford.

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Loss, Literature

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• What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burden; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!

  Horace

  Art, Wine, Glasses

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• True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• I can promise you that the Spirit is a lot more anxious to help you than you are to be helped.

  S. Dilworth Young

  Promise, Spirit, Helping

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• Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony; is it from charity, or revenge ?.

  Louis Gustave Vapereau

  Marriage, Revenge, Charity

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• The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious to exploit the new economic opportunities and provided the framework for a judicial system to protect and encourage productive economic activity

  Douglass North

  Opportunity, Men, Rights

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• It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Science, Giving

  Letter to Theodore Puskas, 18 Nov. 1878.

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• And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government a perpetual, anxious, and unceasing effort to reduce that, which at any times exists, as fast as shall be practicable consistently with integrity and good faith.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Integrity, Government, Effort

  United States. Dept. of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1828). “Reports of the secretary of the Treasury of the United States”, p.101

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• My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.

  George Washington

  Country, Best Wishes, Feelings

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.38, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan.... Brooklyn might sometimes also be pleased, as here on Flatbush, to be its grubby, enduring self.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Self, Manhattan, Brooklyn

  Jonathan Lethem (2004). “The Fortress of Solitude”, p.50, Vintage

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• I am anxious to give away information, for it is only by giving it away that you can keep it. When you have told it, you remember it. It is with information as it is with liberty, the only way to be dead sure of it is to give it to other people.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Life, People, Giving

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]”

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• Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.

  Guy Finley

  Strong, Real, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Sep 06, 2013

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• I was anxious to get started, There was so much anticipation. I wanted to get in the routine
  of playing games. It was just nice to be on a team, not competing against these guys in camp [but] trying to
  work together to win.

  Sidney Crosby

  Nice, Team, Winning

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• Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Black, Therapists, Perceive

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• We kneel, how weak; we rise, how full of power! Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong, Or others — that we are not always strong, That we are ever overborne with care, That we should ever weak or heartless be, Anxious or troubled, when with us is prayer, And joy and strength and courage are with Thee?

  Richard Chenevix Trench

  Strong, Prayer, Joy

  Richard Chenevix Trench (1844). “The Story of Justin Martyr : Sabbation and Other Poems”, p.250

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• Even sleep is characteristic. How beautiful are children in their lovely innocence! how angel-like their blooming features! and how painful and anxious is the sleep of the guilty!

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Beautiful, Children, Sleep

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• Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?

  Sara Jeannette Duncan

  People, Politician, Should

  Sara Jeannette Duncan (2010). “The Imperialist”, p.231, New Canadian Library

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• In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is the enemy. They seldom realize that on their steadfastness, on their ability to withstand the fatigue of dull repetitive work, and on their courage in meeting constant small adversities depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole. ... The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Running, Lonely, Adversity

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• The later rain,--it falls in anxious haste
  Upon the sun-dried fields and branches bare,
  Loosening with searching drops the rigid waste,
  As if it would each root's lost strength repair.

  Jones Very

  Rain, Fall, Roots

  Jones Very (1993). “Jones Very: The Complete Poems”, p.72, University of Georgia Press

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• In the larger sense, however, the personal ownership of firearms is only secondarily a matter of defense against the criminal. Note the following from Thomas Jefferson: The strongest reason for the people to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against the tyranny of government. That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They are afraid of a populace which cannot be subdued by tyrants.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Government, Tyrants

  "Jeff Cooper's Commentaries", Vol. 2, No. 5, May 1994.

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• God made men by baking them in an oven, but he forgot about the first batch, and that's how Black people were born. And then he was so anxious about the next batch, he took them out of the oven too soon, so that's how White people were made. But the third batch he let cook until they were golden-golden-golden, and, honey, that's you and me.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Men, White, People

  Sandra Cisneros (1991). “Woman Hollering Creek, and Other Stories”, Random House Incorporated

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