Anxious Quotes

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!

Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.

The way to be anxious about nothing is to be prayerful about everything.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

I'm not anxious to starve myself. For me, it's not at all sexy to be ultra-thin.

Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious.

You are so anxious about the future that you do not enjoy the present. You therefore do not live in the present or the future. You live as if you are never going to die, and then die having never really lived.

God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them.

The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up.

Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.

Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately loving, fearing part of me.

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.

We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.' What is that, grandmother?' To understand other people.' Yes, grandmother. I must be fair - for if I'm not fair to other people, I'm not worth being understood myself. I see.

I'm not anxious to be anywhere other than where I am right now.

I would like to remain an actress, but am very anxious to direct and produce.

The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.

Why are congressmen called public servants? You never see servants that anxious to keep their jobs.

Seeing what the film becomes, out of your hands - you never know, you know? I'm always rather anxious. It's not like in theater when you are more in control. You're more - not a puppet, but you don't control it. You don't own it.

We are impatient, anxious to see the whole picture, but God lets us see things slowly, quietly.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

I've been a little haphazard about how nude I get, and the only thing that keeps me from getting anxious about it is that I've had complete control over it.

I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like that.

There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

I think writers are very anxious.

Let anxious anticipation evolve into effective preparation

In a conversation, the words can get stuck, I don't know what to say, I get very anxious.

Love passes quickly,
and passes like a street Arab,
anxious to mark his way with mischief.

Because He's near, we dont have to be anxious or feel out of control. We have peace that rises above any circumstance!

His religion at best is an anxious wish,-like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.

I had been anxious and depressed for years and suddenly I was deeply at peace.

It makes me . . . anxious . . . to be away from you.

Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.

Filmmakers are anxious about what other people are working on.

During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am.

This is not my phrase, but if you're stuck in the past, then you're depressed. If you're stuck in the future, then you're anxious.

Life's too short for anxious score-keeping

Time flies when you are anxious!

If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things - you feel that after death, you will be no more.

Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character.

My mom told me to do whatever I wanted to do and don't get too anxious about it.

The fact that Maurice Sendak said, "This is something that I made at your age, this was something that was personal to me, and now you need to take it and make something that's personal to you." I don't know, but we made the Where The Wild Things Are movie that we set out to make, and Maurice loves it. If Maurice was anxious about it, then I would be petrified.

As soon as we try to write the simplest sentence about God, we find ourselves in anxious perplexities, but when we stop trying to write about God and talk with God, God is there and we can talk with God.

Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?

I understand I'm running against a person who is so anxious to become president, he will do whatever it takes.

Even if you yourself were unhappy and anxious, whenever you glimpsed happiness in your child, you suddenly became happy too.

Once you lose the weight, you're really anxious to eat healthy.