Concern Quotes - Page 16

• Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.

  Agnes Martin

  Art, Perfect, Sublime

  Agnes Martin (2005). “Schriften”, Cantz

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• My big concern is keeping people off the highways today, so that we have no further accidents.

  Jim Hodges

  People, Today, Bigs

  "South Carolina Governor Discusses Snowstorm". "CNN Live Today" with Daryn Kagan, www.cnn.com. January 3, 2002.

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• Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Unity, Genius, Natural

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• Steroids are] not healthy, ... There's a real health issue with steroid abuse. At any level, but particularly a young age level. There are many adverse health effects so I think it's a concern we have to take as a college-level group.

  Ben Miller

  Real, Thinking, Healthy

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• In the Internet world, both ends essentially pay for access to the Internet system, and so the providers of access get compensated by the users at each end. My big concern is that suddenly access providers want to step in the middle and create a toll road to limit customers' ability to get access to services of their choice even though they have paid for access to the network in the first place.

  Vinton Cerf

  Choices, Tolls, World

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• We have some concerns if student financial aid is not keeping pace, and college costs continue to outstrip inflation.

  Mary Johnson

  College, Cost, Pace

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• Aerial perspective has nothing to do with line, but concerns tones and colours, by the delicate manipulation of which an artist can suggest infinite distance.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Distance, Artist, Perspective

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• This is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damaging impact on competitiveness.

  Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham

  Impact, Wages, Minimum Wage

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• Forget the state concerns -- we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape.

  Michael Tanner

  Thinking, Government, Church

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• Where there are love and generosity, there is joy. Where there are sincerity and sacrifice, there is friendship. Where there are harmony and simplicity, there is beauty. Where there are prayer and forgiveness, there is peace. Where there are moderation and patience, there is wisdom. Where there are conflicts and crises, there is opportunity. Where there are wonder and adventure, there is growth. Where there are adoration and confession, there is worship. Where there are compassion and concern, there is God. Where there are faith and hope, there is spring.

  Unknown

  Prayer, Spring, Adventure

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• The world should contemplate a nuclear weapons-armed Iran with the greatest of concern.

  Daniel Fried

  Iran, Nuclear, World

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• I believe you can have discipline without fear. I believe that you can have a cohesive and inclusive band where students and parents feel welcome to express their concerns or opinions.

  David Sharp

  Believe, Discipline, Parent

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• An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Self, Discipline

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• I don't mean to sound grandiose, but there's something universal that you tap into with films like Feast of July and Schindler's List. You know they aren't make-believe. They illustrate something about life. This is my major concern whenever I select a film

  Embeth Davidtz

  Believe, Mean, July

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• I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Age, Aging, Problem

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1954). “Speeches”

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• Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations or concerns of their personal lives, their thoughts can find paths that lead to inner contentment and to renewed excitement in living.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Contentment, Earth

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern is no longer with the disease organisms that once were omnipresent; sanitation, better living conditions, and new drugs have given us a high degree of control over infectious disease. Today we are concerned with a different kind of hazard that lurks in our environment-a hazard we ourselves have introduced into our world as our modern way of life has evolved.

  Rachel Carson

  Our World, Yesterday, Drug

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have never altered my feelings towards individuals, as men or as women, whether they believe as I do or not. Can you live as neighbors with me? I can with you; and it is no particular concern of mine whether you believe with me or not.

  Brigham Young

  Believe, Men, Feelings

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• Government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate the concerns of individuals, as if he could do it better than themselves.

  Albert Gallatin

  Government, Liberty, Hazards

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• Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole life and thus lose many spiritual benefits and advantages.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Spiritual, Order, Catholic

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• I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me.

  Ralph Allen

  Prejudice, Moments, Paint

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• We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.

  Rachel Carson

  Men, Rivers, Important

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• Worry is useless mulling over of things we cannot change. Worry is not concern, which would motivate you to do everything possible in a situation.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Mulling Over, Worry, Useless

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.13, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I believe that the essence of government lies with unceasing concern for the welfare and dignity and decency and innate integrity of life for every individual. I dont like to say this and wish I didnt have to add these words to make it clear but I willregardless of color, creed, ancestry, sex or age.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Sex, Lying, Integrity

  Civil Rights Symposium Address, delivered 12 December 1972. Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, TX

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• We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.

  Saint Basil

  Heart, Men, Knowing

  Saint Basil (2010). “Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)”, p.432, CUA Press

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