Concerned Quotes

• Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Love, Romantic, Romance

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• To a materialist, matter is essential: a stone is a stone, a mountain is a mountain, water is water and earth is earth. As far as I am concerned, I am a materialist of the body, which means that the body is the basis of all my work.

  Paul Virilio

  Mean, Water, Mountain

  Source: ctheory.net

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• You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

  David Foster Wallace

  Life, Thinking, People

  "Infinite Jest". Book by David Foster Wallace, February 1, 1996.

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• I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.163, A&C Black

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• I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Fathers Day, Future

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Air, Yesterday, Gone

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• Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.

  Helen Reddy

  Depression, Waste, Wasting Time

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• We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

  Tarja Halonen

  Country, Equality, Gender

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• Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Character

  Andrew Hill, John Wooden (2002). “Be Quick - But Don't Hurry: Finding Success in the Teachings of a Lifetime”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• But as far as I'm concerned, I can still play defense.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Play, Defense, Stills

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• No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Party, Heart, Nhs

  Speech at Manchester, 4 July 1948, in The Times 5 July 1948

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• Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Jealous, Reality, Losing

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.115, 谷月社

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• I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

  Confucius

  Life, Success, Smart

  Confucius (2005). “The Ethics of Confucius”, p.80, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.

  Larry David

  Art, Succeed, Complete Freedom

  "Larry David: The Man Behind Seinfeld". The Laugh Factory Magazine Interview, www.laughfactory.com. April 1994.

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• In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Egypt, People, Democracy

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• The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Writing, Judging, Knows

  W. Somerset Maugham (2014). “The Great Novels and Short Stories of Somerset Maugham: One of the Finest Writers of Short Stories Who Ever Lived”, p.328, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.

  Liam Neeson

  Flirting, Lucky, Wake Up

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• We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Class, Distinction

  Elizabeth Cowling, Pablo Picasso (2002). “Picasso: style and meaning”, Phaidon Press

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• It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.

  Pat Robertson

  Tyrants, Oligarchy, Tyranny

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• The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned.

  Tim Roth

  Character

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• An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Courage, Blood, Soul

  George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.176, 1st World Publishing

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• We plan absentee ownership as far as running the Yankees is concerned.

  George Steinbrenner

  Running, Yankees, Economy

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• Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

  Paul Tillich

  Faith, States

  1957 Dynamics of Faith.

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• People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story.

  Len Wein

  Character, People, Sake

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• If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people and with violent material. I don't regret having concerned myself with such people, because I think that most of us are disturbed.

  Tennessee Williams

  Regret, Thinking, People

  "Conversations with Tennessee Williams".

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