Preoccupation Quotes

At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.

To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.

Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.

I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.

War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.