Anxious Quotes

We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.

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

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

I love shooting, when the character is interesting and the script is interesting, but the research beforehand is really fun. The whole process makes me anxious and restless, and I have trouble sleeping, just trying to figure out the character.

Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

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

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

I get anxious about a lot of things, that's the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about things all the time. And here's the really destructive part - it's always retrospective. I waste time thinking of what I should have said or done.

Being anxious is the worst feeling in the world.

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

I felt highly anxious in a way that I didn't think other children were.

The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too.

I'm anxious to make another film.

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count on the Jews of Morocco alone to build the country, because they have not been educated for this.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.

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

The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious.

I'm as anxious as any viewer would be to see what Temple is going to do next. All I know is that in the second half of the season, he's going to have more sexual tension developing. And it's a great cast - they're all Broadway actors except for me. I aspire to that.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime.