Worry Quotes - Page 15

• If you've got a gun law that criminals will obey, why not just turn it into a murder law that criminals will obey-then we won't have to worry about the gun part.

  Andrew W. Ford

  Gun, Law, Criminals

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• The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.

  Berton Braley

  Jobs, Best Job, Rivers

  Berton Braley, “Opportunity”

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• Worry springs from not being convinced of a sovereign God's absolute love for you. Worry disappears when you realize that God loves you unfailingly and will let nothing interrupt His plans for your good.

  J. D. Greear

  Spring, Love You, Sovereign

  J. D. Greear (2011). “Gospel”, p.56, B&H Publishing Group

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• Frightened of my futureless life, scared by my foolish anxieties, unable to see ahead and aiming nowhere, I continued ceaselessly living my ridiculously idiotic life. I was beset on all sides by invisible worries. So, I shut myself in and slept. I slept until sleep exhausted me. Spring passed, summer ended, fall came, and then winter arrived. Then, it turned into another gentle spring.

  Tatsuhiko Takimoto

  Summer, Spring, Fall

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• Only 8% of our worry will come to pass. 92% of our worry is wasted. DON'T PANIC

  Mark Gorman

  Panic

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• I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that's clear. But banks should do that on their own. And they should worry about their own capital functioning. That's what they should do. It shouldn't be a government function.

  Arthur Laffer

  Stress, Mean, Government

  "Economic Debate: Laffer vs. Liesman". "The Kudlow Report" Larry Kudlow, www.cnbc.com. February 26, 2009.

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• The enchantment of the sky, ever changing beauty almost ignored. Beyond words, without fixed form, not to be understood, or stated. It ravished away dullness, worry, even pain. It graces life when nothing else does. It is the first marvel of the day. Even when leaden grey it is still a friend, withdrawn for a time.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Pain, Sky, Grace

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• I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars, but the individual people whose lives I've touched. I think that's the way it will work for us all. Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.

  Clayton Christensen

  Thinking, People, Dollars

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• You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

  James Sinegal

  Long, Term, Long Term

  "Online Extra: At Costco, 'Good Jobs and Good Wages'". Interview with Michelle Conlin, www.bloomberg.com. May 31, 2004.

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• We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Stars, Sky, Looks

  "Interstellar". www.imdb.com. October 26, 2014.

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• If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.

  Ralph Merkle

  Technology, Thinking, Might

  "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Interview with John Gehl, ubiquity.acm.org. July 2000.

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• How strange and foolish is man. He looses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth. He ruins is present while worrying about his future - but weeps in the future by recalling his past. He lives as though death shall never come to him - but dies in a way as if he were never born.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Past, Men, Way

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• After all, catching something is purely a by-product of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves fear and anxiety.

  Gladys Taber

  Grief, Fishing, Anxiety

  "The book of Stillmeadow".

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• No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future

  Umar

  Past, Guilt, Amount

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• As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

  Dalai Lama

  Irritation, Mind, Negative

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• Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire.

  Rumi

  Fire, World, Sparks

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• Stop worrying about the lousy science, and how me the money already.

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Stop Worrying

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• We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection and anticipation, retrospection and anticipation. In which case what's left to recall but past anticipation? What's left to anticipate but future retrospection?

  David Leavitt

  Past, Hands, Anticipation

  David Leavitt (2013). “The Two Hotel Francforts”, p.85, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Mean, Badges, Simplify

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• Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance.

  Randy Alcorn

  Self, Suffering, Atheism

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• Worrying is the interest paid on a debt you may not owe.

  Peter McWilliams

  Debt, May, Interest

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• It has been a long road. From a mountain coolie, a bearer of loads, to a wearer of a coat with rows of medals who is carried about in planes and worries about income tax.

  Tenzing Norgay

  Long, Mountain, Income

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But then I never had to worry about a crash landing because I never even took off.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Crash, Landing

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My worry is that other advances in science may result in other means of
  mass destruction, maybe more readily available even than nuclear weapons.
  Genetic engineering is quite a possible area, because of these dreadful
  developments that are taking place there.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Mean, Mass Destruction, Engineering

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• Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

  Linus Torvalds

  Data, Structure, Programming

  Message to Git Mailing List, lwn.net. July 27, 2006.

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