Concern Quotes

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.

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.

But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern the theory of chemical reactions and related subjects.

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.

My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.

In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.

Well, that our main concern is that Iraq should not become a divided country.

The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our involvement in foreign conflicts and quarrels that were never our concern.

Everyone I have spoken with so far recognises the need for the IRA to respond positively and every has said sooner is better than later and I think there is some concern if it does continue to delay much longer that the situation isn't going to remain the same.

The concern around probable questions, which in a sense have been hidden, will grow around the world and the matter is critical, the reason we are doing all this is so we can respond correctly to what is reported to be a major catastrophe on the African continent.

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

I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States.

The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.

I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

Leaking of classified material is a concern.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.

My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move.

As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder.

Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.

Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.

The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat.

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw.

This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.

Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.