Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Kirn

It's been a concern of mine for years that the mainstream media coverage of culture and politics takes place in two nodes, Washington and New York, and yet all the voting goes on somewhere else.

Walter Washington

Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people working together racially, ethnically, rich and poor - all segments of the city.

William Blum

Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.

John Martin

We played 10 guys but you have to credit that first group because they went right in and got it done. I was very concerned about trying to take them out of their big-man game and we were somewhat effective in doing that.

We produced a good all-round performance and I suppose the only slight concern was that the top order batsmen could have done better,

Teresa Heinz

I am very concerned about junk food in the schools.

Sam Harris

Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.

Susan Minot

I don't consider the first-world concerns any less important than the third-world ones.

Susan Minot

People can have a variety of concerns at the same time. Even those undergoing grave or traumatic experiences will acknowledge the need for lightness or even entertainment.

Trent Reznor

What I was concerned about when I wrote the 'Downward Spiral' record was being a self-centred destructive force. The point was tearing down everything in a search for something else.

Saxby Chambliss

I'm concerned about the cost, just like everybody else. There's no question that we have an obligation to help the people of Louisiana and Mississippi to rebuild.

We have lowered expectations and we remain concerned that investors will continue to be disappointed.

We have limited information on the disaster. Our immediate focus and concern are for the well-being and safety of Morgan Stanley employees.

Gilbert Arenas

We played well tonight. We just didn't pull it off. But we're not really concerned about what we're doing on the road right now.

Natalie Jeremijenko

A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?

We are really concerned that we're a long, long way away from any kind of breakthrough on tackling poverty in Africa.

We are really and seriously concerned about the reports that there will be a statement or promises during a meeting between the Israeli prime minister and the U.S. president,

We are particularly concerned about the risks for consumers from unsafe counterfeit products,

We are only concerned with what we have to do,

Gloria Trevi

Nowadays, performers worry too much about how they look. They're not concerned about what they're really saying to their audience.

Gladys Knight

I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To me, the queen of doodling was Ella Fitzgerald, and scatting is something I never thought I could do.

The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.

William Henry Bragg

The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found it necessary to discuss their shapes, and gives them no particular forms in his diagrams. That does not mean that the shapes are unimportant, but rather that the older methods could not define them.

Vikram Seth

The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.

Billy Graham

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul.

Billy Graham

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

Evel Knievel

I've always been concerned about kids - not just my own three, but all kids - what kind of an image I'm providing for them, what kind of inspiration. I don't know now. Maybe I'm leading them down the path to self-destruction.

David A. Bednar

We can begin to become more diligent and concerned at home by telling the people we love that we love them. Such expressions do not need to be flowery or lengthy. We simply should sincerely and frequently express love.

The picture we have is really quite similar to that of a lot of polls that share a growing concern about the situation in Iraq,

Peter Drucker

The overseer of the unskilled peasants who dragged stone for the pyramids did not concern himself with morale or motivation,

David Selby

The movie, if I recall, didn't have to do with the television show because there were concerns from everyone that they didn't want it to be like the TV show.

David Friedman

I have been writing since I was about 20, and at first I wrote in secret and never showed anybody. I was very concerned about making a living, so I conducted.

Dennis Ross

Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table.