Worried Quotes
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When I invented the web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA.
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I, who had been in favour of nuclear energy for generating electricity … I suddenly realised that anybody who has a nuclear reactor can extract the plutonium from the reactor and make nuclear weapons, so that a country which has a nuclear reactor can, at any moment that it wants to, become a nuclear weapons power. And I, right from the beginning, have been terribly worried by the existence of nuclear weapons and very much against their use.
mark oliphant— On potentials for misuse of nuclear power, p. 31
It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement. I cannot be asked to miss it in my weak state. I should only fret.
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett— 1939 A Family and a Fortune, ch.10.
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its ownmelting. A poemmay be worked overonce it isin being, but may not be worried into being.
— 1939 'The Figure a Poem Makes', preface to Collected Poems.
I put my life in danger and came here because I feel this country is in danger. People are worried. We will bring the country out of this crisis.
benazir bhutto— At the rally in Rawalpindi after which she was assassinated. (27 December 2007)
Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
— Ch. 66 (Of Human Bondage (1915))
I'm worried about living in a country which in that reaching is right of people who don't run and running is for people who never will reach.
mir-hossein mousavi— Ghalam news
I don't have a sense of time. Time is timeless to me, and I'm not in a hurry to get older. I mean, if I were worried about time, all the time, it would be terrible.
nico— Her response when asked about her sense of rhythm in songwriting, as quoted in Life and Lies of an Icon (1995) by Richard Witts.
I'm not concerned about avoiding anything that happened three years ago or worried about letdowns or things of that nature. When you use the term 'letdown' you proceed with the assumption that this is a continuation of something that happened in the past.
mike tomlin— Referring to the Steeler's poor start in 2006 following their Super Bowl win, as quoted in "Tomlin looks ahead" by Ed Bouchette, in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (1 August 2009)
[On Senator Jesse Helms] I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will.
nina totenberg— Inside Washington, PBS, July 8, 1995. [1]
— Quoted in "Hate speech of the left" by Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe, December 28, 2003. [2]
We are worried about everything happening there, in all the area. I haven't yet heard from Gaddafi . The situation is evolving and so I don't feel I should disturb anyone.
Silvio Berlusconi— On the 2011 Libyan protests, as quoted in EU Observer (21 February 2011)
Up until now Washington has worried that terrorists will become hackers. Perhaps we all should worry that hackers will become terrorists.
ian bremmer— "Cyberteeth Bared," The International Herald Tribune (December 22, 2010)
I’m very curious to know what the hell they’re saying on the phone, but I’d be more worried if they weren’t talking.
brewster, kingman, jr.— On direct telephone communications between heads of state, as quoted in The Observer [London] (10 June 1979)
"I am very worried that most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued. And it makes it much more difficult for any president to pursue an intelligent policy that does justice to the complexity of the world."
zbigniew brzezinski— Spokespersons of US Right 'In Most Cases Stunningly Ignorant', Interview in Der Spiegel, December 6, 2010.
I just don't think I ever said I'm not worried about Osama bin Laden. It's kind of one of those exaggerations.
george w. bush— 3rd Presidential Debate, October 13, 2004 (See his March 13, 2002 quote)
Nero wasn’t worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: “Beware the age of seventy-three.” Plenty of time to enjoy himself still. He’s thirty. The deadline the god has given him is quite enough to cope with future dangers.
constantine p. cavafy— Nero’s Deadline
For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering.
benjamin disraeli— Letter to Lord Grey de Wilton (3 October 1873), cited in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Vol. 5 (1920), p. 262.
Take my hand when you are worried Take my hand when you're alone Take my hand and let me guide you Take my hand to lead you home.
ben harper— Take My Hand
It's not as if anyone is worried that through some horrible miscalculation we could be removing the Iraqi Abraham Lincoln by mistake.
Saddam Hussein— Ann Coulter, How to Talk to a Liberal if You Must 2004
The PATRIOT Act allows Federal agents to look at public and university library patron circulation records, books checked out, magazines consulted, all subject to government scrutiny. There used to be a time in this country when we were worried whether our young people knew how to read. Now some in our government are more worried that government agents be able to find out what people are reading.
dennis kucinich— Speech from the floor of the House of Representatives, Congressional Record (15 June 2005) [9].
I forgot that love existed, troubled in my mind. Heartache after heartache, worried all the time. I forgot that love existed Then I saw the light Everyone around me make everything alright.
van morrison— I Forgot That Love Existed
You caught mum chasing dad with a knife You ran away to escape from the fights Now you're lost in a maze of neon light And she's worried, he's worried, she's worried, oh...
colin moulding— "Runaways"
Nothing depict better the poverty of human nature than to see men, placed at the head of a State, and who should, so to speak, embody (or personnify) the law, be concerned (or worried, or preccupied) only with their own prestige and their own particular interests.
african spir— p. 51 (Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937))
Somebody said that it couldn't be done, But he with a chuckle replied "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one wouldn't say so till he'd tried. he buckled right in with the trace of a grin his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it.
— Edgar Albert Guest, "It Couldn't Be Done," stanza 1, Collected Verse of Edgar A. Guest (1934), p. 285.
Liquor doesn’t make you feel better. Just makes you not so worried about feeling bad.
— Chapter 42 (p. 427) (Leviathan Wakes (2011))
They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing.
steven weinberg—
— Quoted in BBC Four, Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief, unidentified episode, unidentified 2005 date
I'm very worried about living conditions faced by Christians who are suffering from conflicts and tensions in many areas of the Middle East. So often Egypt , Iraq and Syria and other areas in the Holy Land ooze tears.
— Pope Francis, as quoted in "Pope asks Middle East governments to protect Christians" (22 November 2013), Ecumenical News.
“I am not worried, Harry,” said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. “I am with you.”
J. K. Rowling— Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 26, said by Albus Dumbledore (2005).
"It is frightful wrong that other species are tortured, worried, flayed, and devored by us, in spite of the fact that we are not obliged to this by necessity; while in sinning against the defenceless and helpless, just claimants as they are upon our reasonable conscience and upon our compassion, we succeed only in brutalising ourselves."
— Georg Friedrich Daumer, quoted by Howard Williams in The Ethics of Diet
The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.
Wiz Khalifa— American rapper, singer-songwriter and actor
