Anxious Quotes
Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.
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)
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.
Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!
We are impatient, anxious to see the whole picture, but God lets us see things slowly, quietly.
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.
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.
When we carve out a niche for ourselves in our imagined future, and decide that we won't be happy until we achieve it, we can only feel threatened and anxious over anything that stands in our way.
It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.
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.
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.
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.
It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.
Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.
Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
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.
Today's gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans' pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious.
When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.
Most beginners are too anxious for results. Real progress takes place over a long period of time.
If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.
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.
Actors are as anxious about the state of audiences as aviators are over weather conditions.
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!
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!
On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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.
I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.
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?
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.
Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.
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.
I can promise you that the Spirit is a lot more anxious to help you than you are to be helped.
Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.
An inability to choose is a hallmark of anxiety... The too-anxious artist, afraid to choose, will halt dead in the water.
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.
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.
Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief.
Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.
It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.
