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  • A wrong decision can make me very miserable.But I have trust in God. If you have this trust you don't have to worry, as you don't have the sole responsibility.

    - Alfred Thompson, Lord Denning
      Speech on his retirement.

  • When you've reached myage, and your friends are beginning to worry about you, blind dates are a way of life.

    -JuliusJ Epstein
      Pete'n Tillie.

  • Grab your coat, and get your hat, Leave your worry on the doorstep, Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street.

    - Dorothy Fields
      'On the Sunny Side of the Street'.

  • Beneath the strain of expectation even the little iced sugar cakes upon the tea-table looked green with worry.

    - (ArthurAnnesley) Ronald Firbank
      The Flower Beneath the Foot, ch.3.

  • I worry incessantly that I might be too clear.

    - Alan Greenspan
      In the NewYork Times, 25  Jun.

  • Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.

    -Joseph Heller
    Catch-22, ch.17.

  • I have long held the notion that if a vet can't catch his patient there's nothing much to worry about.

    -James pseudonym of James Alfred Wight Herriot
      Vet in Harness.

  • On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to worry about anybody.

    - Robert M Hutchins
      Farewell address to students at the University of Chicago.

  • The only thing you have to worry about is bad luck. I never had bad luck.

    - Harry S Truman
      After an assassination attempt,1 Nov.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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