I Care Quotes - Page 11

• Whenever I talk to anyone I care about, I am always seeking approval. There is always a pleading lilt in my voice that demands love. Even the people I work with, the ones I am supposed to have a professional relationship with, all business, get pulled into my need. I can't help it. I want to be adored.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Voice, People, Needs

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2007). “More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• dear kiara, The women in the shop told me that yellow rose represents friendship and red rose shows love. And the rosery is the only thing i own that i care for, its yours i'm yours C

  Simone Elkeles

  Yellow, Rose, Care

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• Did you fall in love with her?" "I care about her. A lot." "You're not supposed to marry someone if you don't fall in love with her." "Well, love is a choice, too." Holly shook her head. "I think it's something that happens to you." Mark smiled into her small, earnest face. "Maybe it's both," he said, and tucked her in.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Thinking

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• Casualties? What do I care about casualties?

  Aylmer Hunter-Weston

  Military, Care, Casualties

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• ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Music, Silence, Ears

  'The Habit of Perfection' (written 1866)

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• All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Care, Humans

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• What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!

  J. K. Rowling

  Husband, Brave, Looks

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• Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

  Thomas McGuane

  Writing, Scary, Literature

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• I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Law, Care, Nations

  Mr. Dooley's Philosophy "Casual Observations" (1900)

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• I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and traditional mysticisms of your theological institutions, I care not for the beauty and solemnity of your rituals and religious ceremonies, I care not even for the reasonableness and unimpeachable fairness of your social ethics,--if it does not turn out better, nobler, truer, men and women,--if it does not add to the world's stock of valuable souls,--if it does not give us a sounder, healthier, more reliable product from this great factory of men--I will have none of it.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Religious, Men, Giving

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.187, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I care nothing for all the political parties in the world except as they stand for justice.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Marriage, Party, Justice

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• I care about our employees more than anybody in my company. I care about my kids, too, but that doesn't mean I give them everything that they want.

  Charlie Ergen

  Mean, Kids, Giving

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• The things I care about are the most pedestrian things in the world. I care about good ice cream and being a good dad and a decent husband.

  Michael Ian Black

  Dad, Husband, Ice Cream

  "The Best-Laid Plans of Michael Ian Black". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 27, 2012.

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• Have a care over my people. You have my people--do you that which I ought to do. They are my people.... See unto them--see unto them, for they are my charge.... I care not for myself; my life is not dear to me. My care is for my people. I pray God, whoever succeedeth me, be as careful of them as I am.

  Elizabeth I

  People, Care, Praying

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• I've often been asked what drives me, particularly through the last 50 years of abuse, and ridicule. What has kept me going is one word - care. I care enough about the land, the wildlife, people, the future of humanity. If you care enough, you will do whatever you have to do, no matter what the opposition.

  Allan Savory

  Land, Years, People

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• Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty or twenty-five links on your chain? Hedda Gabler, Nora and the rest: it is not that I want! I want Rome and the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Athens; I want beauty, and the flame of life.

  Eleanora Duse

  Beauty, Rome, Flames

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• There is no legislation--I care not what it is--tariff, railroads, corporations, or of a general political character, that all equals in importance the putting of our banking and currency system on the sound basis proposed in the National Monetary Commission plan.

  William Howard Taft

  Character, Political, Sound

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• I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

  Law, Play, People

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• I suppose home is, for me, more of a state of mind. It's really more of about being where I want to be with people I care about.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Home, People, Mind

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Every day, I read about new ideas and research that could help someone I care about live a longer and healthier life.

  Tom Rath

  Ideas, Research, Care

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• I can be a nice person, but if someone is messing with someone I care about, the tougher side comes out a little more.

  Daniella Alonso

  Nice, Care, Littles

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• My favorite sign here says, "I care about you." In a culture that trains people to avoid each other's gaze, to say, "Let them die," that is a deeply radical statement.

  Naomi Klein

  People, Culture, Care

  "What Can Stop the One Percent? by Naomi Klein, www.yesmagazine.org. October 10, 2011.

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• Let it all be animal, my life and death, hard and clean like that, anything but human...a lot I care, me with my red heart in the dark earth and my tattooed feet following the animal ways.

  Vali Myers

  Heart, Dark, Animal

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• It's probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell. If you're going to spend two years of your life on something it has to matter to you, you have to be passionate about it.

  Angelina Jolie

  Years, Two, Issues

  "Angelina Jolie admits working with Brad Pitt again after Mr & Mrs Smith was 'heavy'" by Claire Rutter, www.mirror.co.uk. August 6, 2015.

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• The No. 1 thing that I care about is the fact that I did my job by the children because that has a legacy that will far outlive me. Because it won't only be them, it will be how they impact their children and the next generation.

  Michele Bachmann

  Jobs, Children, Impact

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