Anxious Quotes:

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

- Albert Brooks

source: "Broadcast News", www.imdb.com. 1987.

topic: Powerful, Anchors, Anxious, Alliteration

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

- Albert Camus

topic: Men, Wander, Anxious

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

- Amy Grant

topic: Anxious

You can't use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.

- Bill Crawford

topic: Anxiety, Use, Anxious

I am always anxious to know what has happened while I've been asleep.

- Christian Lacroix

topic: Anxious

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

- D. A. Carson

source: D. A. Carson (1996). “Basics for Believers: An Exposition of Philippians”, p.73, Baker Books

topic: Way, Anxious, Prayerful, Intimacy With God, Commitment To God

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.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Live In The Present, Enjoy, Anxious

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

- Daniel Johns

source: "Growing Pains". Metal Hammer Magazine Interview, March 1999.

topic: Crowds, Scared, Anxious

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

- David Giuntoli

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Mom, My Mom, Anxious

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

- David Markson

topic: Solitude, Anxious, Persons

I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world.

- Diana Trilling

source: Diana Trilling (1993). “The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling”, Harcourt

topic: Women, World, Anxious

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

- Donald Hall

topic: Character, Opposites, Anxious

Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.

- Dustin Hoffman

topic: Bored, Frightened, Anxious, Cinematography

I know the Lord is anxious to respond to us if we will only turn to him.

- Dwan J. Young

topic: Anxiety, Lord, Anxious

Being anxious is the worst feeling in the world.

- Enrique Iglesias

topic: Feelings, World, Anxious, Missed You, Missing You Love

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

- Etta James

topic: Healthy, Weight, Anxious

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Men, Prison, Anxious

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.

- George MacDonald

topic: Grandmother, People, Anxious

I think writers are very anxious.

- Helen Garner

topic: Thinking, Anxious

I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear.

- James Joyce

topic: Tombstone, Masons, Anxious

We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.

- James Montgomery Boice

topic: Moments, Anxious, Unknown Future, Fear Of The Unknown, Stop Worrying

Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

topic: Anxiety, Anxious

I ran rather than walked, anxious to lose my way. All I wanted was to be unsure.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Way, Anxious, Wanted

Yeah. I do get incredibly anxious. Almost borderline panic attacks.

- Julian Cope

topic: Panic Attacks, Yeah, Anxious, Borderline

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.

- Kevin Hart

topic: Writing, Trying, Anxious, God Is There

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

- Luc de Clapiers

topic: Lazy People, Laziness, Anxious

Time flies when you are anxious!

- Maria Bamford

source: "Unwanted Thoughts Syndrome". Live album, April 21, 2009.

topic: Time, Time Flies, Anxious

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

- Megan Gallagher

topic: Actresses, Produce, Anxious

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

- Melissa Harris-Perry

topic: Black, Therapists, Anxious

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

- Mignon McLaughlin

topic: Worry, Anxiety, Anxious

In these anxious times many of us are less astonished that reason is ever suspended than that it should ever prevail, even during the briefest of intervals.

- Morton Irving Seiden

source: Morton Irving Seiden (1968). “The paradox of hate: a study in ritual murder”

topic: Reason, Should, Anxious

Let anxious anticipation evolve into effective preparation

- Quentin Smith

topic: Preparation, Anticipation, Anxious

Tenterhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat.

- Robert E. Sherwood

topic: Anxiety, Upholstery, Anxious

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

- Robert Quillen

topic: Jobs, Government, Anxious

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

- Sally Ride

topic: Dramatic, Anxious

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

- Scarlett Johansson

topic: Sexy, Ultras, Anxious

Everything I know I imagine everyone else knows as well. And then everything that everyone else knows I imagine they know on top of what I know, so I'm constantly anxious about what everyone else knows.

- Scarlett Thomas

topic: Imagine, Anxious, Wells

The more precious His gift, the more anxious God for its return.

- Seth Grahame-Smith

topic: Return, 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.

- Sidney Poitier

topic: Oneness, Anxious, After Death

There's Pam watching anxiously. She doesn't look anxious though.

- Stephen Hadley

topic: Racing, Looks, Anxious, Funny Racing

We're not anxious to play L.S.U. again.

- Steve Spurrier

topic: Play, Lsu, Anxious

Life's too short for anxious score-keeping

- Teju Cole

topic: Too Short, Score, Anxious

I'm in my best shape when I'm really anxious, because I have to get to the gym. Physically I'm in the best shape.

- Vinny Guadagnino

topic: Shapes, Anxious, Gym

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

- Walter Brueggemann

source: Walter Brueggemann (2010). “Journey to the Common Good”, p.35, Westminster John Knox Press

topic: Scarcity, Anxious, Neighborhood

Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement?

- William John Locke

source: William John Locke (2012). “Septimus”, p.59, tredition

topic: Human Nature, Anxious, Humans, Anxious Thoughts

I really like New York a lot, but I like it more as a place to visit. It was really difficult for me to live there. As a person from California, I'm still very neurotic and anxious, but in a more laid-back way.

- Bethany Cosentino

topic: Anxious, Difficult, Neurotic

I'm always anxious in introducing sounds that don't originate with the cello.

- Julia Kent

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Sound, Introducing, Anxious

Filmmakers are anxious about what other people are working on.

- Kevin Feige

source: "Exclusive: Marvel’s Kevin Feige Talks THOR, AVENGERS, ANT-MAN, DOCTOR STRANGE, Animated Movies, Reveals What’s in Odin’s Vault". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 1, 2011.

topic: People, Anxious, Filmmaker

Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to learn what we do not know.

- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

topic: Learning, Desire, Anxious

If you want to be anxious today, pretend you're in control.

- Michael Reeves

topic: Today, Want, Anxious

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.

- Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

source: Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (1976). “Personal geography: almost an autobiography”, Stephen Greene Press

topic: Struggle, Given, Anxious

It was a film that I knew, that I had seen, that I was familiar with, but I wasn't anxious about it at any point during the screening. I snoozed twice, and this is something I couldn't have imagined that I would feel detached, as I did with this film [Certified Copy].

- Abbas Kiarostami

source: Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 17, 2011.

topic: Film, Anxious, Familiar

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

- Soren Kierkegaard

topic: Way, Anxious, Right Way

I tend to have more anxious dreams where I'm late getting to places. That's definitely a recurring dream; I hate being late to places.

- Felicia Day

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Dream, Hate, Anxious, Recurring Dreams

There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.

- Jean de la Bruyere

topic: Life, Men, Anxious

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

- Florence Welch

source: "Florence and the Machine Announce New LP". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 23, 2011.

topic: Conversation, Anxious, Stuck

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

- Stephenie Meyer

source: Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.126, Hachette UK

topic: Away From You, Anxious, Twilight Edward

I'm not anxious, I'm high-strung. I just decided that's the difference for me.

- Jen Kirkman

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Differences, Anxious, High Strung

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.

- Frederick Buechner

source: Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

topic: Religious, Prayer, Anxious

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

- Susan Cain

source: Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.31, Broadway Books

topic: Pressure, Anxious, Sells

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

- Lysa TerKeurst

topic: Rise Above, Anxious, Circumstances

The Victorians had not been anxious to go away for the weekend. The Edwardians, on the contrary, were nomadic.

- T. H. White

source: 'Farewell Victoria' (1933) pt. 4

topic: Weekend, Going Away, Anxious, Nomadic

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

- Pope Francis

topic: Impatient, Anxious, Whole, Whole Picture

Even speed, when we are anxious, seems like delay.

- Publilius Syrus

topic: Delay, Speed, Anxious

I see a redness suddenly come Into the evening's anxious breast-- 'Tis the wound of love goes home!

- D. H. Lawrence

source: D.H. Lawrence (2016). “Snake and Other Poems”, p.7, Courier Dover Publications

topic: Home, Evening, Anxious

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Should, Anxious, Mankind

I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Anxious, Please

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

- George W. Bush

topic: Running, President, Anxious

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.

- Tim Ferriss

source: Source: www.menshealth.com

topic: Past, Anxious, Stuck

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

- John Keats

topic: Religion, Wish, Anxious

The American people are both anxious for change. We're in a time of flux.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: People, Flux, Anxious

Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing

- Don DeLillo

source: Don DeLillo (1999). “White Noise”, p.232, Penguin

topic: Anxiety, Anxious

We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (1973). “Winter: From the Journal of Henry David Thoreau”

topic: Speak, Anxious, Heard

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

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Way, Mark, Anxious

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

- Rose Kennedy

topic: Anxiety, Atmosphere, Anxious

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

- Eckhart Tolle

source: "The new age philosophy of mind over... mind". Interview with Jenna Mucha at Omega Institute, www.newyorktimesbestsellerlist.org. Fall 2003.

topic: Years, Anxious

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

- Edmund Burke

source: Edmund Burke (2005). “Burke, Select Works”, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

topic: Independence, Psychological, Anxious

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

- Boris Pasternak

topic: Men, Anxious, Myth, Infallibility

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

- Saint Augustine

topic: Blessing, Anxious

I'm anxious to make another film.

- William Shatner

source: Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 19, 2002.

topic: Film, Anxious

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.

- Elizabeth I

topic: Country, Sake, Anxious, Monarchs, Willing To Die

I am anxious to see what life is going to bring next.

- Sherilyn Fenn

source: Source: www.washingtontimes.com

topic: Next, Life Is, Anxious

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.

- Eva Green

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Film, Anxious

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.

- Lena Dunham

source: Interview with Claire Danes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 1, 2012.

topic: Littles, Anxious, Over It, Haphazard

I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.269, Penguin

topic: Business, Missing, Anxious, Appointments

Love is a thing full of anxious fears.

- Ovid

topic: Life, Love Is, Anxious