Best 311 quotes in «concern quotes» category

I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.

I don't feel French at all. That was never really a concern, and it's limiting to think that way. I think Paris is more of a playground for international designers, so I don't really feel French. And I don't really want to feel French.

I don't have any intention to stop. Rock 'n' roll is my main concern.

I don't let a poem go into the world unless I feel that I've transformed the experience in some way. Even poems I've written in the past that appear very personal often are fictions of the personal, which nevertheless reveal concerns of mine. I've always thought of my first-person speaker as an amalgam of selves, maybe of other people's experiences as well.

If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.

If economists did not concern themselves with economic efficiency, nobody would.

If you concern yourself with remaining relevant, you'll probably disappear into oblivion.

I do not concern myself with being unique, and I do not concern myself with success. I feel I just do and say what I am supposed to. I do not know where it comes from. I go where I am told, and I just allow whatever it is to come out.

If you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life’s inevitable difficulties disturb you less.

If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all.

If you're not willing to have somebody hauled off at gunpoint over the project, then it's probably not a legitimate concern of the state.

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

If you are concerned about netiquette, you are either concerned about your own and follow good netiquette, or you are concerned about others and violate good netiquette by bothering people with your concern, as the only netiquette you can actually affect is your own.

I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount.

I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.

I have little need to remind you that water has become one of our major national concerns.

I felt like I had to prove myself, but I feel that you have to do that anyway, as an actor. You're there to do a job, and that's your primary concern.

I had all kinds of food issues, including health concerns and weight concerns.

I'm fully capable of multitasking certain conceptual concerns within the work.

I have always had deep concerns about anyone's philosophy being imposed on the entire community.

I'm just concerned that as long as this caliphate exists, it provides this magnet for radicalization, and we're likely to see more attacks like we have seen in San Bernardino, Chattanooga and elsewhere, and that's the concern I have over pace.

I hope you don’t listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern.

I live with deer and coyotes. Lyme ticks are a daily concern and mystery, but, yes, what do they mean? I don't know yet. But I'd rather point out the abundance of mystery than pretend to solve it. As if I could solve it! What does a deer mean? Who knows? Everything!

I'll give President Obama credit that he's dealing with big issues. I've seen administrations come to town and only deal with the little ones. You know, he's confronting a lot of major concerns here, and he's the only president we're going to have for the next four years, so we hope he's got some degree of success.

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

Instead of talking at each other about the non-business-related contact, talk to each other about your concerns about marriage. Listen a lot, too.

In the South China Sea and underneath the South China Sea, of course, there's a lot of raw materials. There are very rich fishing grounds there, so there are some economic concerns in the South China Sea as well.

Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves onevery occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us.

It can be demonstrated that in any society there is a distribution of religious tastes and concerns.

In and after 1964 when I began to concern myself with the biological issues, and particularly from 1967 onwards, the extent of the problems over which I felt uneasy increased to such a point that in 1968 I felt a compelling urge to make my views public.

It doesn't much concern me if Tiger plays in the tournament or no.

I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.

It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration.

It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles.

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.

It's always been government's role to protect the security of the nation. And cyber-attacks is a security issue, from our perspective. And it's a security issue of particular concern with respect to the nation's core critical infrastructure, the infrastructure everyone relies on, the energy sector, the telecommunications sector, the banking sector.

It's fun to play a character when you can't concern yourself with how sympathetic they are.

I've expressed concern about the assaults on our institutions, both from external sources - meaning the Russians - and internal sources. And I think this will be a real test of the resilience of our system and its pillars.

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

I was 23. When you're 23, your concern is not for the greater good of humanity. I didn't feel like I was unleashing an evil on society or anything. At the time, that's what I was into, and I did a movie about it.

I've never had any real concern about posterity. I hope some people will be sorry when I'm not here, but I'm not playing for that.

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

Justice is no longer a concern of the justice system.

It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.

Let them call me rebel, and welcome, I feel no concern from it.

Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern.

Leaking of classified material is a concern.