Quotes about Anxious

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form. Votes: 5

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted. Votes: 4

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility. Votes: 4

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. Votes: 4

The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life. Votes: 4

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment. Votes: 4

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea. Votes: 4

I think writers are very anxious. Votes: 3

Even cats grow lonely and anxious. Votes: 3

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable. Votes: 3

Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future. Votes: 3

Anxious care is out of place in a heavenly Father's presence. Votes: 3

True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. Votes: 3

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious. Votes: 3

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear. Votes: 3

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for. Votes: 3

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. Votes: 3

The pressure began to mount as I kept winning every time and people were anxious to see if I could be beaten. Votes: 3

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition. Votes: 3

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. Votes: 3

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions. Votes: 3

Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies in the womb. Votes: 3

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made. Votes: 3

Anxious. Intriguing word. It literally means, "to be divided" or "distracted." It conveys the idea of being so mentally ill at ease that you cannot do what you need to do because you are so distracted in your thinking. Votes: 3

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom? Votes: 3

When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused. Votes: 3

You are so anxious about the future that you do not enjoy the present. You therefore do not live in the present or the future. You live as if you are never going to die, and then die having never really lived. Votes: 3

That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn. With their whole being, with all their forces, gathered around their solitary, anxious, upward-beating heart, they must learn to love. Votes: 3

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. Votes: 1

Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights. Votes: 1

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day. Votes: 1

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path. Votes: 1

Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn. Votes: 1

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old. Votes: 1

A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race. Votes: 1

The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious. Votes: 1

Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep. Votes: 1

A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart. Votes: 1

Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser. Votes: 1

When so-called child's play turns hostile, and a child becomes a victim, it is time to act. Victims of cyberbullying do not choose to participate. Rather than build character, bullying can cause children to become anxious, fearful, unhappy, and even cause them to be physically sick. Votes: 1

I get anxious about a lot of things, that's the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about things all the time. And here's the really destructive part - it's always retrospective. I waste time thinking of what I should have said or done. Votes: 1

The dog can only become what's in your bubble. The dog is imitating the energy that is in your bubble. You are the source, the feast of energy. If you feel anxious, the dog becomes anxious with you. If you become nervous, the dog wakes up nervous with you. Votes: 1

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can't control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I'm just not going to go outside the house. I'm going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that. Votes: 1

One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy - just not in the same moment that you're sad. Votes: 1

You have to rely on your preparation. You got to really be passionate and try to prepare more than anyone else, and put yourself in a position to succeed, and when the moment comes you got to enjoy, relax, breathe and rely on your preparation so that you can perform and not be anxious or filled with doubt. Votes: 1

My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them. But I place as a prior condition the education of the people, that by means of instruction and industry our country may have an individuality of its own and make itself worthy of these liberties. Votes: 1

I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm too anxious. I don't know how you're not obsessed with how people perceive you, because they're real people, you know? You can convince yourself that they don't really know you, and that's true, but how can it not hurt your feelings? Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Love is full of anxious fears. Votes: 0

Time flies when you are anxious! Votes: 0

I'm anxious to make another film. Votes: 0

Life's too short for anxious score-keeping Votes: 0

Let anxious anticipation evolve into effective preparation Votes: 0

Tenterhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat. Votes: 0

No distance can keep anxious lovers long asunder. Votes: 0

It was one long, anxious, inexorable, eternal vigil. Votes: 0

Psych ward clocks, depressed, nudge like anxious calendars. Votes: 0

Love is a thing full of anxious fears. Votes: 0

Children make theories when they are confused or anxious. Votes: 0

There's Pam watching anxiously. She doesn't look anxious though. Votes: 0

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something. Votes: 0

It makes me . . . anxious . . . to be away from you. Votes: 0

I get more anxious than nervous before a concert. Votes: 0

Even speed, when we are anxious, seems like delay. Votes: 0

We're not anxious to play L.S.U. again. Votes: 0

Being anxious is the worst feeling in the world. Votes: 0

I hate flying. I don't planes. I get really anxious. Votes: 0

Filmmakers are anxious about what other people are working on. Votes: 0

Yeah. I do get incredibly anxious. Almost borderline panic attacks. Votes: 0

We are more anxious to speak than to be heard. Votes: 0

Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored. Votes: 0

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. Votes: 0

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor. Votes: 0

If you want to be anxious today, pretend you're in control. Votes: 0

I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss. Votes: 0

Once you lose the weight, you're really anxious to eat healthy. Votes: 0

Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man. Votes: 0

A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts! Votes: 0

Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety. Votes: 0

I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry. Votes: 0

I'm always anxious in introducing sounds that don't originate with the cello. Votes: 0

Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character. Votes: 0

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth. Votes: 0

I am anxious to see what life is going to bring next. Votes: 0

Fraud and deceit are anxious for your money. Be informed and prudent. Votes: 0

The more precious His gift, the more anxious God for its return. Votes: 0

Her life was a series of zigzags. At nineteen, she was anxious. Votes: 0

I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice. Votes: 0

That man has the fewest wants who is the least anxious for wealth. Votes: 0

The way to be anxious about nothing is to be prayerful about everything. Votes: 0

His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children. Votes: 0

I'm not anxious, I'm high-strung. I just decided that's the difference for me. Votes: 0

The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic. Votes: 0

I'm not anxious to be anywhere other than where I am right now. Votes: 0

Walsall have given City more than one anxious moment amongst many anxious moments Votes: 0

Cast your anxious thoughts upon the Lord. He waits to hear you speak! Votes: 0

I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like that. Votes: 0

I am always anxious to know what has happened while I've been asleep. Votes: 0

I felt highly anxious in a way that I didn't think other children were. Votes: 0

Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate. Votes: 0

Well, they know that I'm not very anxious to get into one hour again. Votes: 0

Forgiving people are less likely to be hateful, depressed, hostile, anxious, angry, and neurotic. Votes: 0

Great women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion. Votes: 0

Today's gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans' pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious. Votes: 0

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree Votes: 0

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. Votes: 0

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security. Votes: 0

His religion at best is an anxious wish,-like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps. Votes: 0

Actors are as anxious about the state of audiences as aviators are over weather conditions. Votes: 0

Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony; is it from charity, or revenge ?. Votes: 0

The superior man * * * in regard to his speech * * * is anxious that it should be sincere. Votes: 0

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. Votes: 0

You can't use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious. Votes: 0

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another. Votes: 0

I am anxious to fix welfare. There has to be more training and child care. Votes: 0

I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M. Votes: 0

I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world. Votes: 0

I had been anxious and depressed for years and suddenly I was deeply at peace Votes: 0

I would like to remain an actress, but am very anxious to direct and produce. Votes: 0

I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live. Votes: 0

Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us. Votes: 0

Why are congressmen called public servants? You never see servants that anxious to keep their jobs. Votes: 0

God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them. Votes: 0

Dying is the last,but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about Votes: 0

The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it. Votes: 0

Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief. Votes: 0

Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain. Votes: 0

I was so anxious to grow up, and now I'm wishing I was still a kid. Votes: 0

I'm not anxious to starve myself. For me, it's not at all sexy to be ultra-thin. Votes: 0

Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more anxious! Votes: 0

Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more anxious! Votes: 0

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either. Votes: 0

The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up. Votes: 0

Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood. Votes: 0

I know the Lord is anxious to respond to us if we will only turn to him. Votes: 0

Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others. Votes: 0

I feel lost not doing art, unsatisfied, anxious, bored. Everything else in comparison seems not terribly important. Votes: 0

I ran rather than walked, anxious to lose my way. All I wanted was to be unsure. Votes: 0

On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate. Votes: 0

We are impatient, anxious to see the whole picture, but God lets us see things slowly, quietly. Votes: 0

Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing. Votes: 0

There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life. Votes: 0

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. Votes: 0

If you feel suddenly so anxious for laugh, then it's too late to find ha-ha in dictionary. Votes: 0

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead. Votes: 0

Most beginners are too anxious for results. Real progress takes place over a long period of time. Votes: 0

I see a redness suddenly come Into the evening's anxious breast-- 'Tis the wound of love goes home! Votes: 0

Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven. Votes: 0

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer. Votes: 0

My mom told me to do whatever I wanted to do and don't get too anxious about it. Votes: 0

There are widows who long for friendly voices and that spirit of anxious concern which speaks of love. Votes: 0

Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion Votes: 0

Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world. Votes: 0

I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe. Votes: 0

Be not anxious to avoid poverty. In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested. Votes: 0

When we are anxious about what is going to happen next, we are not staying in our now! Votes: 0

How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother? Votes: 0

In a conversation, the words can get stuck, I don't know what to say, I get very anxious. Votes: 0

Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it? Votes: 0

The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy. Votes: 0

Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts. Votes: 0

Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere! Votes: 0

The Victorians had not been anxious to go away for the weekend. The Edwardians, on the contrary, were nomadic. Votes: 0

The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence. Votes: 0

Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it. Votes: 0

Be not anxious;yesterday is your experience, today is your experiment and tomorrow is your expectation. Maximize the time! Votes: 0

Do you want to know the surefire way to stay anxious? Don't do the thing that makes you nervous! Votes: 0

There was a point in time where the thought of people even talking about me made me anxious. Physically. Votes: 0

Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you. Votes: 0

I don't sleep well. I'm a very nervous - by my nature - anxious, almost paranoid person and reporter. Votes: 0

Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious. Votes: 0

I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear. Votes: 0

Everything I ever worried about turned out exactly as it was going to, despite my anxious moments to the contrary. Votes: 0

I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly. Votes: 0

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future Votes: 0

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility Votes: 0

We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us. Votes: 0

I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense. Votes: 0

Even if you yourself were unhappy and anxious, whenever you glimpsed happiness in your child, you suddenly became happy too. Votes: 0

It takes pride to be anxious – I am not wise enough to know how my life should go. Votes: 0

I understand I'm running against a person who is so anxious to become president, he will do whatever it takes. Votes: 0

People who never get anxious always amaze me. The world could be breaking up, and they're saying, 'Everything's fine!' Votes: 0

The Lord is a good banker, and I trust Him. He has never failed me. Why should I be anxious? Votes: 0

Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion. Votes: 0

Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world. Votes: 0

Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK. Votes: 0

Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry. Votes: 0

If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in. Votes: 0

An inability to choose is a hallmark of anxiety... The too-anxious artist, afraid to choose, will halt dead in the water. Votes: 0

The essence of the miracle of forgiveness is that it brings peace to the previously anxious, restless, frustrated, perhaps tormented soul. Votes: 0

Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh. Votes: 0

Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public? Votes: 0

Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart. Votes: 0

I can promise you that the Spirit is a lot more anxious to help you than you are to be helped. Votes: 0

The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him. Votes: 0

I hadn't seen my dad get violent since the Great Spatula Incident, and I wasn't anxious to see a repeat of that. Votes: 0

The known was so depressing, it was hard to feel anxious about the unknown, and so searching for something else seemed natural." Votes: 0

Good film, television, or music keeps you awake, anxious for the next movement or act, and wanting more when it is finished. Votes: 0

The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building. Votes: 0

It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave. Votes: 0

I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on. Votes: 0

Zion, thou art doubtless anxious for news of thy captives; they ask after thee, they who are the remainder of thy flock. Votes: 0

I would sit and talk to any president who wishes to talk to me, but I'm not anxious to rule it in. Votes: 0

Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love. Votes: 0

Because He's near, we dont have to be anxious or feel out of control. We have peace that rises above any circumstance! Votes: 0

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign, Votes: 0

I used to be really anxious about money. I got that from my parents. I still am, but for entirely different reasons. Votes: 0

Keeping the mind open to new ideas, not being too anxious about success, putting 100% effort and meditation is the formula for entrepreneurs. Votes: 0

I was very superstitious when I was a teenager, and I had to fight against that because it made me feel anxious. Votes: 0

It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender Votes: 0

Temperamentally anxious people can have a hard time staying motivated, period, because their intense focus on their worries distracts them from their goals. Votes: 0

In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities. Votes: 0

Margaret found that the indifferent, careless conversations of one who, however kind, was not too warm and anxious a sympathizer, did her good. Votes: 0

Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement? Votes: 0

I'm anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships... I'm just one of those people that, whatever I'm doing, it's a big worry. Votes: 0

...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic. Votes: 0

I'm in my best shape when I'm really anxious, because I have to get to the gym. Physically I'm in the best shape. Votes: 0

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt. Votes: 0

It is my opinion that Norman Rockwell and his ilk have done more to make already anxious people feel guilty than anyone else. Votes: 0

I'm a very anxious person, and it's hard for me to be in the moment. Improv demands that you be in the moment. Votes: 0

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt. Votes: 0

It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity. Votes: 0

The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live. Votes: 0

How is the anxious soul of man befool'd in his desire, That thinks an hectic fever may be cool'd in flames of fire? Votes: 0

I've always been anxious about 'Primer.' There's good things about it, but all I've seen for a long time is the flaws. Votes: 0

I tend to have more anxious dreams where I'm late getting to places. That's definitely a recurring dream; I hate being late to places. Votes: 0

Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else. Votes: 0

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth. Votes: 0

Never be anxious about maintaining the position you occupy. Be anxious about maintaining your good character and you will never lose your leadership influence! Votes: 0

In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom. Votes: 0

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching. Votes: 0

Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide? Votes: 0

Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it. Votes: 0

Talking to mothers, always brings it home because they're so anxious to do everything they can for their kids and so tragic for them. Votes: 0

Not that they were that anxious to see Ronnie as President; they were afraid if he didn't get elected, he'd go back to acting. Votes: 0

The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see. Votes: 0

True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion. Votes: 0

He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107) Votes: 0

To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left. Votes: 0

What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts. Votes: 0

We are anxious in the face of our unchangeable past; we long to recreate segments of our private histories, but we are stuck with them. Votes: 0

For very few persons are concerned about the way that leads to heaven, but all are anxious to know, before the time, what passes there. Votes: 0

Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing Votes: 0

I'm excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn't have high expectations, I wouldn't come back here. Votes: 0

Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime. Votes: 0

How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child! Votes: 0

He had just compunction enough for having done nothing for his sisters himself, to be exceedingly anxious that everybody else should do a great deal. Votes: 0

We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God. Votes: 0

Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life. Votes: 0

God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need? Votes: 0

I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again. Votes: 0

The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen. Votes: 0

Writing can be wonderful therapy, and cheap at the price. At the very least, you eventually get bored by thinking about anxious topics and move on. Votes: 0

The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application of it is feasible. Votes: 0

When I am feeling depressed and anxious sullen all you have to do is take off your clothes and all is wiped away revealing life's tenderness. Votes: 0

It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others. Votes: 0

If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things-you feel that after death, you will be no more. Votes: 0

There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people who do. Votes: 0

One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug… Votes: 0

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations... Votes: 0

In these anxious times many of us are less astonished that reason is ever suspended than that it should ever prevail, even during the briefest of intervals. Votes: 0

If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company. Votes: 0

I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band. Votes: 0

I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive. Votes: 0

The heart will rest and feel relief if it is settled with Allah. And it will worry and feel anxious if it is settled with the people. Votes: 0

I am more anxious than I can express that my men should be not only good soldiers of their country, but also good soldiers of the cross. Votes: 0

If the Church were not true, our enemies would be bored rather than threatened, and acquiescent rather than anxious. Hell is moved only when things move heavenward. Votes: 0

It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss. Votes: 0

There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible. Votes: 0

The miracles of Christ were studiously performed in the most unostentatious way. He seemed anxious to veil His majesty under the love with which they were wrought. Votes: 0

People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event. Votes: 0

When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way your writing has been used. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I played maybe one and a half games of Little League. The whole atmosphere of anxious parents and more anxious children was just too much for me. Votes: 0

For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions. Votes: 0

I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal. Votes: 0

For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind? Votes: 0

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Most of God's people are contented to be saved from the hell that is without; they are not so anxious to be saved from the hell that is within. Votes: 0

Give a portion of your money to others. By releasing an anxious grasp on your money, you will open yourself to receive all that is meant to be yours. Votes: 0

The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions. Votes: 0

Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It was a return to happiness. Votes: 0

These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect ourselves from them at the same time. Votes: 0

A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it. Votes: 0

When I was teaching, I gave a lot of my mind and anxiety to it. There was always something clenched and anxious in me until the classes were over. Votes: 0

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by. Votes: 0

Philosophy for me is essentially atheistic. Now that's an anxious atheism. It's an atheism that is anxious because it inhabits questions that were resolved religiously in the pre-modern period. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

I've never been afraid of big moments. I get butterflies.. I get nervous and anxious, but I think those are all good signs that I'm ready for the moment. Votes: 0

During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am. Votes: 0

The West is anxious about becoming another Africa, and it has dug deep moats in the hopes of preventing that, but it's too late: it has already become another Africa. Votes: 0

Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving, forever burdening ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations. Votes: 0

and I shut off my anxious heart and my nervous head as dusk descended into another night, another meaningless merging, another attempt to find myself as I gave myself away. Votes: 0

I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process. Votes: 0

I am deeply interested in this work. I am anxious to encourage the people to press on in securing their genealogies and after doing so in laboring in our temples. Votes: 0

Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity. Votes: 0

If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons. Votes: 0

When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety. Votes: 0

Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep. Votes: 0

The Lord is anxious to lead us to the safety of higher ground, away from the path of physical and spiritual danger. His upward path will require us to climb. Votes: 0

I've been a little haphazard about how nude I get, and the only thing that keeps me from getting anxious about it is that I've had complete control over it. Votes: 0

The enemy wants to steal our peace and keep us stirred up, anxious, fearful, upset, and always in a stance of waiting for something terrible to happen at any minute. Votes: 0

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present. Votes: 0

Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions. Votes: 0

My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxious because I was overthinking everything, and you hear so many 'fail' stories. Votes: 0

We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save. Votes: 0

I just moved [Bloomington] because I didn't do well with New York. It made me kind of anxious and it was just incredibly expensive. It just has this very small-town feel. Votes: 0

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Educate, that you might be free. We are most anxious to get the quiet, strong minded people who are scattered throughout the country to see the force of this great truth. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination. Votes: 0

Among the most disheartening and dangerous of . . . advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest friends, members of your own family, perhaps, loving, anxious, and knowing nothing whatever . . . Votes: 0

How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know. Votes: 0

The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later. Votes: 0

I came into this world anxious to uncover the meaning of things, my soul desirous to be at origin of the world, and here I am an object among other objects. Votes: 0

I have had the auditioning process go on for two weeks or three weeks. I am always incredibly anxious. The audition and the wait is definitely the hardest part for me. Votes: 0

If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere. Votes: 0

We're like old people now playing music. I'm so glad we stuck it out because it's a lot better. I used to feel kind of anxious. Now our apprenticeship is over. Votes: 0

We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for? Votes: 0

Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom. Votes: 0

Today in May 1938, the world around us suffers from the anxiety which the unemployment of millions brings with it. In Germany we begin to be anxious because we have not enough workmen. Votes: 0

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself. Votes: 0

There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. These were the mounting blocks by which the criminals climbed to power and kept it. Votes: 0

You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were. Votes: 0

Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible. Slip quietly out of the noose of your habitual anxious self, release all grasping, and relax into your true nature. Votes: 0

Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death! Votes: 0

There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest. Votes: 0

I got so anxious sitting in the make-up chair for hours with my face covered. I had my doctor write a prescription for valium. I couldn't have done it without the pill. Votes: 0

After being out so long, I was more anxious to pitch than anything, just ready to get back into things. I can't imagine a better situation to test me against some pressure. Votes: 0

Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary. Votes: 0

As a teenager I was very anxious. I had a lot of energy and passion that I wanted to channel into creative things, and I always felt like I wasn't achieving enough. Votes: 0

What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist? Votes: 0

What wakes me up at night is this next generation and what's happening to them. And they're invariably excited about the science that they're doing, but invariably anxious about where there's a future. Votes: 0

That's why I haven't been so anxious. But now, lots of people write and say, 'I want to find out what you're doing.' So I know that this book will enlighten them. Votes: 0

Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you're in is like trying to organize your monthly bills by throwing them into a blender Votes: 0

I'm a really anxious person, so I tend not to keep secrets. I tend not to even want to hear them. It's too nerve-wracking for me to try and keep things from people. Votes: 0

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things. Votes: 0

You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night. Votes: 0

Will you be?" I asked, suddenly anxious. "Will you really be here?" "As long as you want me," he assured me. "I'll always want you," I warned him. "Forever. Votes: 0

I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps. Votes: 0

You are anxious before every game because you had to win it. If you didn't you went down the ladder. I felt proud of the way we beat some teams in tough games. Votes: 0

The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the heart's anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away. Votes: 0

Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a nasty chemical soup in our brains that makes it hard to pull out of the anxious depressive spiral. Votes: 0

I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

L'homme qui a un peu use ses e motions est plus presse de plaire que d'aimer. The person who has used his emotions even a little is more anxious to please than to love. Votes: 0

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... Votes: 0

I’m an anxious person. What I like best is to smoke cigarettes and listen to music. A perfect day for me is a day with coffee, cigarettes, and music, to quote Jim Jarmusch. Votes: 0

My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played. Votes: 0

In the theatre, if you say 'Macbeth', all the actors will start looking very anxious. I'm so well-trained not to say it in the theatre that I can hardly say it in normal life. Votes: 0

We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established, and it is understood. Votes: 0

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of being anxious or estranged, just being present in the world. Votes: 0

In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today. Votes: 0

In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today Votes: 0

The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it. Votes: 0

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts. Votes: 0

Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules. And then we go home and do whatever the hell we want anyhow. Votes: 0

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts. Votes: 0

Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things. Votes: 0

In the study of management, unfortunately, many writers have been so anxious to articulate a theory in the form of, "If you do this, this will result," that they never go through this careful effort. Votes: 0

You should only attempt to borrow from those who have but few of this world's goods, as their chests are not of iron, and they are, besides, anxious to appear wealthier than they really are. Votes: 0

Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets. Votes: 0