Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, that we neglect to give them what we DID have growing up. - James C. Dobson
We want people to represent us in politics—and in love and economics too. When people represent us fully, they are ourselves and are not ourselves. When an object is simultaneously the same as and different from the person concerned with it—or considering it—aesthetics is there. - Eli Siegel
I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature. - Björk
We should be more concerned with reaching the lost than pampering the saved. - David McGee
I don't give a damn for anybody's opinion, I only care about the facts. So I'm not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned. - Richard Dawkins
In my experience, economists rarely believe passionately in, or care passionately for, the free market. They are generally more concerned to reveal the market's imperfections, to further their own professional importance. - Terence Kealey
Mincemeat is decidedly British in its nature and can therefore be disregarded entirely where most civilized palates are concerned. - Clayton Smith
Don’t let them fool you and tell you goals has to be unified before any partnership agreement. Be carefully concerned about unifying your values and principles, after that all will run smoothly. - Sameh Elsayed
Man cannot be homophobic without having concerned himself with another’s sex life. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
As far as I'm concerned, the gator that ate T.C. deserves a medal from Crime Stoppers. - Carl Hiaasen
Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end. - Jerry Seinfeld
Then I made her understand that, where she was concerned, I was only a poor dog, ready to die for her. But that she could marry the young man she pleased because she had cried with me, and mingled her tears with mine. ~ Erik - Gaston Leroux
Different people have different ways of defining, living and maintaining relationships. Your way is not the only right way, it is merely your way. As far as right way is concerned, there isn't any. It is all about different opinions and perceptions. - Arti Honrao
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have. - Flannery O'Connor
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. - E.M. Forster
I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together. - Marcus Garvey
I am truly not an axiologist, but I am concerned about the value of life in all of its forms and shapes. - Debasish Mridha
Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness and Light, Solidity and Color, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest. - Leonardo da Vinci
Possible then the professor inited a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of omen, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his superiority. - Virginia Woolf
Where the rich are concerned, the law goes begging. - Marty Rubin
What a sad thing I thought-- to live in a world so concerned with the lives of others,we forget to live our own. - Anonymous
[About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections. - Niels Bohr
I am not concerned about results. The only thing I am concerned about is the process. How you tried to achieve something matters more than what you achieved. - Sharad Vivek Sagar
I’m not concerned about your comfort zone or readiness for change. I’m concerned about the kids who just entered Kindergarten. - Ian Jukes
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. - Albert Einstein
We want to stay in the sunlight from now on. Efforts to force us back in the closet could be disastrous for all concerned. - Dick Leitsch
Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself? - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will. - John Kenneth Galbraith
The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs & convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than what these words designate. - Octavio Paz
Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry could be one or the other, but it cannot--despite the pretensions and protestations of psichiatrists--be both. - Thomas Szasz
Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less.Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself. - Jalaluddin Rumi
It may well be that we talk about sex more than anything else; we set our minds to the task; we convince ourselves that were have never said enough on the subject...where sex is concerned the most long-winded, the most impatient of societies is our own. - Michel Foucault
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. - Eric Berne
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived. - Rabbi Harold Kushner
government is legitimate not so much because it represents the 'general will', but because its policies are, ideally and counterfactually, the result of the public deliberation of all who are concerned by the decision - Frédéric Vandenberghe
Don't be concerned with what you can't do. Work on what you can do - then count your blessings. - Alan Robinson
As far as we are concerned, there is no dislike, no personal tension, no disunity or strife that cannot be overcome by intercessory prayer. Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after. - Homer
His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter. - Ayn Rand
You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times. - Nina Simone
My greatest concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are concerned with your failure. - Abraham Lincoln
It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion.
CONCERNED BUT NOT CONSUMED! - Ron Sanders
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. - John Wooden
JEALOUS, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. - Ambrose Bierce
Do not be concerned with how others treat you. Be only concerned with how you treat others. - Julia Heywood
When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they’re not really concerned about him; they’re concerned about their daughter’s tummy. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. - Jackie Robinson
To put it simply, the lizard brain is purely concerned with survival. - Stephen Richards
If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees. - Lao Tzu
What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become. - Bruce Nauman
You can’t write novels without a touch of paranoia. I’m paranoid as an act of good citizenship, concerned about what the powerful people are up to. - Kurt Vonnegut
I am not concerned that I am not known; I seek to be worthy to be known. - Confucius
And yes, I’ll admit, I am jealous. I’m jealous of every minute you spend with him, of every concerned expression you send his way, of every tear shed, of every glance, every touch, and every thought. I want to rip him to pieces and purge him from your mind and from your heart. But I can’t. - Colleen Houck
Mia: I was sixteen when I first realized my mom was more concerned about my appearance than I was… I’ll be talking to my mom and realize she hasn’t heard a word because she’s studying my face to see if the foundation I’m using is a good match for my skin tone. - Mia Fontaine
I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people. - Rosa Parks
So, the world is fine. We don’t have to save the world—the world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about, is whether or not the world we live in, will be capable of sustaining us in it. That’s what we need to think about. - Douglas Adams
One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.
Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.
Remember, too, that at a time when people are very concerned with their health and its relationship to what they eat, we have handed over the responsibility for our nourishment to faceless corporations. - Lynne Rossetto Kasper
Why are we so afraid to die? Are we concerned about the reckoning we may have to face on the other side? Or does the thought of our nonexistence terrify us? Perhaps neither. Perhaps what we fear most is no longer being able to do the things we love. - Fabrizio Paterlini
Aren't I enough for you?' she asked.'No,' he said. 'You are enough for me, as far as a woman is concerned. You are all women to me. But I wanted a man friend, as eternal as you and I are eternal.'(Women in Love) - D.H. Lawrence
If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry. - Dave Barry
Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind. - Louis Pasteur
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.
It's surprising what you can accomplish when no one is concerned about who gets the credit. - Ronald Reagan
There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them. - Plato
The eye fixed on Christ sees clearly, succumbing to neither pride nor inferiority, because it is not concerned with the self at all. - Andree Seu World Magazine
Afterall a concerned sincere heart & clear conscience is what matters & nothing else... - Aanu
My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an indivisible case and I can categorically state that I became politically committed because I am a novelist, not the opposite. - غسان كنفاني
I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise. - Abraham Lincoln
Because it’s no longer enough to be a decent person. It’s no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save humanity from itself. - Joss Whedon
Humility is the nearly impossible task of being more concerned with our own sins that we are with the sins of others. - Trevor hammack
Those who believe that where great personages are concerned new favors cause old injuries to be forgotten deceive themselves. - Niccolò Machiavelli
It's important to remember that peace, liberty and freedom changes many aspects in our thoughts as far as life is concerned. - Auliq Ice
Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time. - Helen Reddy
If God is so concerned about the state of truth in any society, I think that should begin to concern us as well. - Sunday Adelaja
If people were more concerned with how they looked on the inside, then on the outside, the world would be a nicer place to exist. - David Walsh
Those activities which are not concerned with numbers, but which are concerned with humans(Customers and Employees) is known as business. Numbers will ultimately increase if humans are happy who are involved in. - Rakesh Wadhwani
While these Christians (the majority in a recent poll) are particularly concerned that religious freedoms are being eroded in this country, they also want Judeo-Christians to dominate the culture, - David Kinnaman
I don't play accurately-any one can play accurately- but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life. - Oscar Wilde
I'm not concerned that you have fallen, I'm concerned that you arise. - Abraham Lincoln
Now you see, Dr. Stadler, you're speaking as if this book were addressing to a thinking audience. If it were, one would have to be concerned with such matters as accuracy, validity, logic and the prestige of science. But it isn't. It's addressed to the public. - Ayn Rand
Develop your character; there is no need to be concerned about reputation. - Debasish Mridha
The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one. - Epicurus
Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Psychology is more concerned with identifying the degree of mental disorder and less with its cure! - Ramana Pemmaraju
All along, I was less concerned about walking a path of integrity and more caught up in a compass calibrated by greed. And with a compass such as this, how is it that I’m having a hard time understanding why I am where I am? - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Instead of being proud that you led someone to God, be more concerned with the person you pushed away from Him. - Donna Lynn Hope
When trees fall on trees, the topmost tree must first be removed before others. Don't be too concerned about the problems of the past. What matters most is the challenge at hand now! - Israelmore Ayivor
I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise. - Abraham Lincoln
I do not understand when a person is more concerned with the appearance of their house than the state of their home. - Gillian Duce
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. - Abraham Lincoln
Be more concerned with character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are. - John Wooden
...legal procedure has always tacitly been concerned with human relations, rather than abstract justice, and that consequently in spite of the legal codes it is really the human relations underneath that determine the verdicts in the courts. - James Jones
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody. - Agatha Christie
Follow your purpose with integrity. Live your passion with integrity. If you don't have integrity you live in fear, and as far as I'm concerned living in fear is not enjoying life. - Unarine Ramaru
When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters. - Idries Shah
Accountability in police can best be done in an assembly where everyone concerned will come and share their views and opinion to the activities of the police because there's a whole lot of excesses in the police force that must be corrected for effective policing and better society's trust on them. - Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba
Humility and pride will forever battle whenever or wherever love is concerned - Jeremy Aldana
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. - Richard Armour
Beware! Balance rules the cosmos. It is not concerned with good or bad. You can be struck by misfortune and be buried in grief if that is what it takes to restore the imbalance you have wrought unto the world. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect. - George Carlin
I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. - Abraham Lincoln
A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned. - Ewan McGregor
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