Concern Quotes - Page 5

• John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.

  Yoko Ono

  Deep Love, Race, Very Deep

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• It is a very real concern and my view is that everything changed on September 11th and the procedure, the policies that were in place prior to September 11th no longer should apply.

  George Pataki

  Real, Views, September

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• If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

  Alan Paton

  Issues, Novel, Publishing

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• An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

  J. D. Salinger

  Art, Writing, Perfection

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.

  John Thorn

  Failing, Egotistical, Relate

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• Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.

  Harry Chapin

  Life, Relationship, Helping Others

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• A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Focus, Matter, Clear

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.271, Modern Library

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• My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.

  Vinton Cerf

  Reality, Administration, Serious

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• So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.

  Huston Smith

  Religious, Issues, Justice

  Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.50, Univ of California Press

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• Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.

  Fred Upton

  Views, Media, Common Sense

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• It's a national concern, I mean how we dispose of nuclear waste in a safe way, how we deal with this incredible amount of nuclear waste we have created over the years.

  Tom Udall

  Mean, Years, Nuclear

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• Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about

  Whitfield Diffie

  Clever, Real, Writing

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• Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  May, Marry Me, Social

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility.

  Bob Crosby

  Brother, Responsibility, Thinking

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• The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Science, Affair

  1906 Collected in The Notebooks of Paul Klee (published 1957).

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• We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.

  Mike Easley

  People, North Carolina, Common

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• Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Son, Gentle, Governors

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• It's nice to feel the fans are behind you. You shouldn't concern yourself with things like that - but it does matter.

  Dan Marino

  Sports, Nice, Behind You

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• Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.

  C. F. Powell

  Done, Feels, Honour

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• Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Death, Women, Heart

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Stanley Kunitz, Max Hayward (1997). “Избранные Стихи”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

  Evan Parker

  Philosophical, Paradox, Contradiction

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• One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Two, People, Dollars

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• Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.

  Pat Roberts

  Real, Agriculture, Community

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• The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

  Daniel Dennett

  Problem, Ethical, Mathematics

  "Daniel Dennett: Darwin's Dangerous Idea (1995)". Interview with Hari Kunzru, www.harikunzru.com. December 17, 2008.

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• We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Men, Thinking, Mirrors

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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