Concern Quotes - Page 14

• We will cooperate fully with the SEC and look forward to the opportunity to put any concern about these transactions to rest.

  Kenneth Lay

  Opportunity, Looks, Transactions

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• I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.

  Bill Ford

  Believe, Environmental, Twenties

  "The Motown missionary" by Terry Slavin, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2000.

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• However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem is always found to be found in private life. We must learn to see that every problem that concerns us as conservationists always leads straight to the question of how we live. The world is being destroyed, no doubt about it, by the greed of the rich and powerful. It is also being destroyed by popular demand.

  Wendell Berry

  Powerful, Government, Roots

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

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• We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose. The worldwide crisis affecting finance and the economy lays bare their imbalances and, above all, their lack of real concern for human beings; man is reduced to one of his needs alone: consumption.

  Pope Francis

  Real, Men, Cfs

  "The Joy of the Gospel: Evangelii Gaudium". Book by Pope Francis, w2.vatican.va. November 26, 2013.

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• The effort to improve the conditions of man, however, is not a task for the few. It is the task of all nations-acting alone, acting in groups, acting in the United Nations, for plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology and education can be the ally of every nation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Technology, Men

  Final Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 20 September 1963, New York, NY

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• Those whose primary concern is to destroy others are at the lowest level of development. Those who are only interested in their own satisfaction are farther along. Those who both do things for their own satisfaction and the satisfaction of others are even father along. Then there are saints who just constantly live for the welfare of others.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Father, Satisfaction

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• Nuclear-armed Iran ought to be a major concern. And they're moving forward. We have got to roll that back.

  Steve Scalise

  Moving, Iran, Nuclear

  "Gov. Walker on CPAC, record in Wisconsin; Rep. Scalise talks DHS funding fight". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 1, 2015.

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• I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Rights, Issues, Minorities

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've never had that concern of thinking of myself as stupid.

  John Travolta

  Stupid, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Air, Sea

  Final Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 20 September 1963, New York, NY

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• Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works 'arrangements' and 'harmonies.

  James Whistler

  Art, Independent, Eye

  James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Peter Russell (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of James McNeill Whistler (Illustrated)”, p.620, Delphi Classics

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• But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.

  Francois Rabelais

  Years, Snow, Lasts

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 723, Pantagruel (1532), Chapter XIV, 1922.

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• Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Attitude, Heart, Winning

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• Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole concern is how to make ordinary life a blessing.

  Rajneesh

  Blessing, Ordinary, Different

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• Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Motivation, Littles, Preoccupation

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• The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.758, GENERAL PRESS

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• Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction, no general standard of taste, or scale of opinion. They see their objects always near, and never in the horizon. Hence arises that egotism which has been remarked as the characteristic of self-taught men.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Self, Mind

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.175, Delphi Classics

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• in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or refused to ask them under the pretext that they are meaningless, and in any case not the scientists concern.

  Arthur Koestler

  Pertinent Questions, Society, Lasts

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• I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words.

  May Sarton

  Light, Expression, Color

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.90, Open Road Media

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• And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than by disputes the public peace disturb; For points obscure are of small use to learn, But common quiet is mankind's concern.

  John Dryden

  Running, Church, Doctrine

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.300, Pearson Education

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• He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech.

  William Cowper

  Men, Speech, Ambassadors

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.141

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• But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre he that runs may read.

  William Cowper

  Running, Reading, Shining

  William Cowper (1852). “Poems”, p.277

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• Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.

  Ben Jonson

  Slander, Angry

  'Catiline his Conspiracy' (1611) act 3, sc. 1

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• I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.

  Richard Harris Barham

  Boys, Men, Littles

  Richard Harris Barham (2013). “The Ingoldsby Legends, Volume 2”, p.142, SpringStreet Books, LLC

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• The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

  Adrienne Rich

  Song, Art, Struggle

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.117, W. W. Norton & Company

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