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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More Worried Quotes
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)
My experience with first-time directors is that they’re all extremely prepared, because I guess they’re worried. They spend weeks preparing everything, and they have to get used to the fact that once you get there, everything goes wrong and you have to make everything up.
— "Matthew Broderick on John Hughes, the Never-Finished Margaret, and His New Film Wonderful World" by Kyle Buchanan, in Movieline (7 January 2010)
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
dale carnegie— How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948) , Part 8 : How I Conquered Worry, p. 237.
Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.
john kenneth galbraith— Foreword p. vii
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
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]
I wanted people who wouldn't become too worried about casualties. One always should be concerned about casualties, but the risk of incurring casualties can't be allowed to affect decisions, unless it's evident casualties will be prohibitively heavy. There may be no safe way to write this.
christopher vokes— England, p. 76
Somebody said that it couldn't be done,But he with a chuckle replied"maybe it couldn't," but he would be onewouldn't say so till he'd tried.he buckled right in with the trace of a grinhis face. If he worried he hid it.He started to sing as he tackled the thingThat 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.
"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
You see, I have no real complaints of how you've left your past behind I guess what gets me worried is you've erased him from your mind.
harry chapin— I Wonder What Happened to Him
Layla, you got me on my knees. Layla, I'm begging, darling please. Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind.
eric clapton— Layla (by Derek and the Dominos - 1970)
Ah, you loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the discipline How many nights I prayed for this, to let my work begin First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.
leonard cohen— "First We Take Manhattan" (1986)
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"
I'm suddenly worried people will think that I believe their religion can be summed up on four sex-obsessed sentences.
ryan north— Comment
There is no Hell when you die so don't look so worried
conor oberst— Light Pollution
With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a bipartisan way to lift our economy and help America's middle class.
nancy pelosi— (October 15, 2008). Pelosi Statement on Fiscally Responsible Recovery Package to Lift Economy and Help the Middle Class. Press release. Retrieved on 2008-11-08.
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).
I'm not worried about the security particularly. If people have enough to do, there won't be trouble.
— Wesley A. Pomeroy, head of security, quoted in the New York Times June 27, 1969
We have nothing to be worried about!
— Who: Fukov
— Source: Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning
— Note: Said before his ship USSSR Kalinka crashes to Earth and explodes.
Then why are you so afraid? You worried he's going to stop you?
— Who: Benjamin "Knox" Washington
— Source: Episode 3x13 "Dual"
— Notes: Said before Nathan attacks him. As he is about to kill Nathan, he is frozen and shattered by Tracy.
