Anxious Quotes - Page 22

• I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.

  Muriel Spark

  Justice, Causes, Injustice

  Muriel Spark (2015). “Robinson”, p.85, Canongate Books

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• I'm anxious to face them (major league pitchers) all, but in reality I'm looking forward most to (Boston's) Pedro Martinez. He was with the major league team that came to Japan in 1996, just before he became a superstar. I'm anxious to see how much he's improved. And I'm anxious to see how much I've improved against him.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Team, Reality, Japan

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• The soul on earth is an immortal guest,
  Compelled to starve at an unreal feast:
  A spark, which upward tends by nature's force:
  A stream diverted from its parent source;
  A drop dissever'd from the boundless sea;
  A moment, parted from eternity;
  A pilgrim panting for the rest to come;
  An exile, anxious for his native home.

  Hannah More

  Home, Sea, Parent

  Hannah More, “Reflections Of King Hezekiah, In His Sickness”

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• One of the most essential and mundane of human activities - taking care of children - requires high levels of anxious vigilance. ... [Parents] dare not risk assuming that the sudden quiet from the toddlers' room means they are studying with Baby Einstein. Visualize fratricidal stranglings and electric outlets stabbed with forks: this is how we have reproduced our genomes.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Baby, Children, Mean

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• You don't want the children to know how afraid / you are. You want to be sure their hold on life / is steady, sturdy. Were mothers and fathers / always this anxious, holding the ringing / receiver close to the ear: / 'Why don't they answer where could they be?

  Gail Mazur

  Mother, Children, Father

  Gail Mazur (1995). “The Common”, p.33, University of Chicago Press

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• Throughout their lives, women try to pummel their bodies into some phantom ideal shape that exists only with a lot of airbrushing. ... I don't blame men for this. Men seem to go for us no matter what size and shape we are. I blame capitalism. No, really. The consumer must constantly be in a state of anxious low self-esteem so that she will constantly buy lipsticks and girdles to make her feel cuter.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Self Esteem, Men, Trying

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• 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.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Happiness, Long, Return

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2009). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.204, Broadview Press

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• I was 23, and I was in L.A. while on hiatus [as an understudy] from Biloxi Blues on Broadway. The guy that I'd been studying with had been fired for horsing around on stage with Matthew Broderick, and they were really anxious to get me back into the play. So I was in a great situation, and at the time, I definitely wasn't thinking about television

  David Lee

  Thinking, Play, Guy

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• If I haven't anything to write, I am just as anxious to 'take my pen in hand' as though I had a message to deliver, a cause to plead, or a problem to unfold. Nothing but writing rests me; only then do I seem completely myself!

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Writing, Hands, Messages

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• Louis [Leakey] was anxious to initiate a scientific study of these chimpanzees. It would be difficult, he emphasized, for nothing was known; there were no guidelines for such a field study; and the habitat was remote and rugged. Dangerous wild animals would be living there, and chimpanzees themselves were considered at least four times stronger than humans. I remember wondering what kind of scientist he would find for such a herculean task.

  Jane Goodall

  Science, Animal, Stronger

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• He that has no present Christ has a future, dark, chaotic, heaving with its destructive ocean; and over it there goes forever--black-pinioned winging its solitary and hopeless flight, the raven of his anxious thoughts, and finds no place to rest, and comes back again to the desolate ark with its foreboding croak of evil in the present and evil in the future.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Ocean, Dark, Anxious Thoughts

  Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.289

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

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Kindness, Quality, Unhappy

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• When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself - nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Happiness, Spring, Anxiety

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• 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.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Gossip, Speak, Easy

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Struggle, Given, I Am What I Am

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (1976). “Personal geography: almost an autobiography”, Stephen Greene Press

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  May, Way, Poverty

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.52

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• No more restless uncertainties, no more anxious desires, no more impatience at the place we are in; for it is God who has placed us there, and who holds us in his arms. Can we be unsafe where he has placed us?

  Francois Fenelon

  Desire, Arms, Restless

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• Perhaps anxious politicians may prove that only seventeen white men and five negroes were concerned in the late enterprise; but their very anxiety to prove this might suggest to themselves that all is not told. Why do they still dodge the truth? They are so anxious because of a dim consciousness of the fact, which they do not distinctly face, that at least a million of the free inhabitants of the United States would have rejoiced if it had succeeded. They at most only criticise the tactics.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, White, Anxiety

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.142, Cambridge University Press

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• 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.

  Sydney Samuelson

  Use, Littles, Emotion

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• I'm always just very nervous. I never feel like, 'I've got this'. I'm always very nervous and aware of how quickly people can hate you and that scares me. I never feel like I'm on top of it or I know what I'm doing... so, no. I never get a big head, I just get more and more anxious.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Hate, People, Scare

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• I get very, very anxious on the set. I have a thousand ideas and I don't censor myself. I wind up cutting some of them out in the editing room... I shoot [needless footage] and then don't use later on in the process.

  Steven Spielberg

  Cutting, Editing, Wind

  "Comic-Con 2011: Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson Interview ADVENTURES OF TINTIN; Spielberg Says Jackson Is Scheduled to Shoot the Sequel". Interview with Jason Barr, collider.com. July 22, 2011.

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• I find that things don't bother me as much. If I had a bad day on set, it sort of just rolls of my back in a way that it didn't before. So that's where the biggest difference is, stuff that used to get under my skin or that I would worry about or be anxious about just isn't a problem. So in some ways, having a child has been very liberating. I found it very liberating.

  Laura Linney

  Children, Bad Day, Differences

  "MR. HOLMES: Laura Linney Talks Sherlock, and Compares Working on TMNT 2 with CONGO". Interview with Brian Formo, collider.com. July 14, 2015.

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• What nonsense it is, this desire to be without limitations, this wish always to be seen in the most flattering light. We are anxious, not because we think so little of ourselves, but because we think so much of ourselves. We are anxious, not that we may appear in the worst light, but that we may not appear in the best light. Anxiety is born of self-consciousness, and it is alleviated to the exact extent that we can drop consciousness of the self.

  Jo Coudert

  Thinking, Light, Self

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.144, iUniverse

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• For two years now, my office has had the honour and the privilege of sponsoring seminars on the functioning of government in this country for Eastern Europeans. These seminars and exchanges have brought together representatives from such nations as Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republic, Roumania, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and the Ukraine, all of them anxious to learn what makes a society as diverse as Canada work and how our institutions make it governable.

  John Allen Fraser

  Country, Government, Ukraine

  "The House of Commons at Work". Book by John Fraser, 1993.

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• Actors are as anxious about the state of audiences as aviators are over weather conditions.

  Katharine Cornell

  Weather, Actors, States

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