Concern Quotes - Page 26

• It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and why my first concern is then to know what it looks out on.

  Andre Breton

  Looks, Firsts, Impossible

  Surrealism and Painting (1928)

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• Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence.

  George Crabbe

  Disrespect, Want, Spirit

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• The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.

  Edna Ferber

  Sheep, Goats, Busybodies

  Edna Ferber (1941). “Saratoga Crunk”

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• It's clear the CIA was trying to play 'keep away' with documents relevant to an investigation by their overseers in Congress, and that's a serious constitutional concern. But it's equally if not more concerning that we're seeing another 'Merkel Effect,' where an elected official does not care at all that the rights of millions of ordinary citizens are violated by our spies, but suddenly it's a scandal when a politician finds out the same thing happens to them.

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, Nsa, Play

  "Snowden: Feinstein a Hypocrite for Blasting CIA Spying". www.nbcnews.com. March 11, 2014.

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• One of the things we're going to have to discuss and debate is how are we striking this balance between the need to keep the American people safe and our concerns about privacy. Because there are some trade-offs involved. I welcome this debate, and I think it's healthy for our democracy.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Nsa, People

  "Around The World" with Michael Holmes, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2013.

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• The main thing is to do each project the way you want, and if they find an audience, that's terrific. And if they don't, there's nothing you can do anyway, so don't let it concern you that much. An awful lot of good movies have done badly and an awful lot of bad movies have done very well. There are no real rhymes or reasons for it. Sometimes the stars don't always align right. But if you've done the best you can, you feel pretty good about it.

  Clint Eastwood

  Stars, Real, Good Movie

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• There is a global epidemic where one out of three women will be beaten or sexually assaulted in their lifetimes? How are we going to build a future of love and connection? And why would this not be of utmost concern to men?

  Eve Ensler

  Men, Epidemics, Connections

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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• Probably Providence has implanted peevishness and ill-temper in sick and old persons, in compassion to the friends or relations who are to survive; as it must naturally lessen the concern they might otherwise feel for their loss.

  Laurence Sterne

  Loss, Compassion, Sick

  Laurence Sterne (1803). “The works of Laurence Sterne, with a life of the author, written by himself”

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• Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Men, Vanity, Care

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• There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

  Alec Waugh

  Strong, Moving, Future

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• I don't think you should write something as long as a novel around anything that is not of the gravest concern to you and everybody else and for me this is always the conflict between an attraction for the Holy and the disbelief in it that we breathe in with the air of the times.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Thinking, Air

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• All writers who can claim to be called 'living' must be political in a sense. They must have what the Quakers call a concern to understand what is happening in the world, and must engage themselves, in their writing, to promote no comfortable lies, of the sort which people will pay well to be told rather than the truth.

  Storm Jameson

  Lying, Writing, People

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• Nothing has given me more hope recently than to observe how simple conversations give birth to actions that can change lives and restore our faith in the future. There is no more powerful way to initiate significant social change than to start a conversation. When a group of people discover that they share a common concern, that's when the process of change begins.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Powerful, Life Changing, Simple

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• Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Agreement, Matter, Morality

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”

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• This is an accessible work of philosophy in the best sense, sharply focused on matters of vital human concern and free of the domain tics that mar even allegedly popular works by Anglo-American philosophers.

  Mark Lilla

  Philosophy, Mars, Matter

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• Let us pray for ourselves, that we may not lose the word “concern” out of our Christian vocabulary. Let us pray for our nation. Let us pray for those who have never known Jesus Christ and redeeming love, for moral forces everywhere, for our national leaders. Let prayer be our passion. Let prayer be our practice.

  Robert E. Lee

  Christian, Jesus, Prayer

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• if networks of women are formed, they should be job related and task related rather than female-concerns related. Personal networks for sociability in the context of a work organization would tend to promote the image of women contained in the temperamental model - that companies must compensate for women's deficiencies and bring them together for support because they could not make it on their own. But job-related task forces serve the social-psychological functions while reinforcing a more positive image of women.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Jobs, Organization, Support

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• It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately concern us.

  Myrtle Reed

  Wisdom, Acceptance, Lifetime

  Myrtle Reed (1916). “Old Rose and Silver”, p.49, Library of Alexandria

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• All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.

  Myrtle Reed

  Failure, Loss, Reality

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• On that first day when we look back, either happily or with remorse, to the stony ways over which we have traveled, losing concern for that part of the journey which is yet to come, we have grown old.

  Myrtle Reed

  Journey, Age, Looks

  Myrtle Reed (1905). “The Master's Violin”

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• To me, the labor movement was never just a way of getting higher wages. What appealed to me was the spiritual side of a great cause that created fellowship. You wanted the girl or the man who worked beside you to be treated just as well as you were, and an injury to one was the concern of all.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Girl, Spiritual, Men

  Rose Schneiderman, Lucy Goldthwaite (1967). “All for one”

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• ... it is the spirit of trade unionism that is most important, the service of fellowship, the feeling that the hurt of one is the concern of all and that the work of the individual benefits all.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Hurt, Feelings, Important

  Rose Schneiderman, Lucy Goldthwaite (1967). “All for one”

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• I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields that turn to desert...

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Desert, Developing Countries

  John F. Kerry's Speech at the COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen, archive.boston.com. December 16, 2009.

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• The Communist Party and the Soviet Government display constant concern to strengthen the country's defensive might and raise the combat readiness of the Armed Forces.

  Andrei Grechko

  Country, Party, Government

  "Soviet Civil Defense". Book by Leon Gouré, p. 5, 1971.

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• In my opinion what distinguishes the Bible from the other books is its sense of time. Its first concern is to establish a calendar. Then it traces a genealogy. It imposes rhythms, it orders, it operates, it does not abandon the earth where its destiny must be fulfilled and whose own destiny must be fulfilled by it. Its history will be that of men and not of idle gods. The whole spirit must become incarnate and explore the possible.

  Adrienne Monnier

  Bible, Book, Destiny

  Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.376, U of Nebraska Press

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