As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down.
~By Tina Yothers ~
A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
~By Alice Duer Miller ~
The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.
~By Mikhail Khodorkovsky ~
The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.
~By Judy Chicago ~
Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.
~By Paul Tillich ~
We were mainly concerned about nudity - how much could be shown in 1959 and how much would convey, without being gratuitous, the terror of being attacked naked and wet.
~By Joseph Stefano ~
The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.
~By Stephen Gardiner ~
In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people.
~By Forest Whitaker ~
This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
~By Barbara Deming ~
As far as the international issues are concerned, the most important thing is the state of the transatlantic relationships, Euro-Atlantic relationships: how to develop them and how to strengthen them further.
~By Marek Belka ~
In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.
~By Jeremiah Wright ~
God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.
~By John Haggai ~
John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.
~By Yoko Ono ~
I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.
~By Adam Arkin ~
In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public.
~By Frank Church ~
Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.
~By Gerrit Smith ~
There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned.
~By Peabo Bryson ~
At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas.
~By Hjalmar Branting ~
Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.
~By Katherine Dunn ~
My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.
~By Robert E. Lee ~
Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.
~By Norman Spinrad ~
I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.
~By John Ciardi ~
Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is... the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.
~By Richard Avedon ~
I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.
~By Serge Lang ~
We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.
~By Learned Hand ~
Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
~By Haley Barbour ~
As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.
~By Patti Smith ~
Many of them are doing it because they are concerned about smart growth.
~By Lee Scott ~
We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.
~By Luis Bunuel ~
We aren't as concerned about the live aspect as other labels. The best live bands are the easiest to record.
~By Greg Ginn ~
Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.
~By Roger Wicker ~
As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.
~By Lucian Freud ~
I was concerned about who he would put in there as FBI director because he had expressed antipathy for the FBI, for the director. I was going to stay there and make sure that he couldn't replace me.
~By Louis Freeh ~
I am concerned about the growing problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of our children.
~By Jim Ryun ~
We need to have a strong defense focused on areas that are in the greatest vulnerability. I have been very concerned about America's 361 seaports as a point in which terrorist activities and materials could be brought into the country.
~By Bob Graham ~
The concern around probable questions, which in a sense have been hidden, will grow around the world and the matter is critical, the reason we are doing all this is so we can respond correctly to what is reported to be a major catastrophe on the African continent.
~By Thabo Mbeki ~
When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.
~By Maurice Jarre ~
Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.
~By Homer ~
My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity.
~By Sun Myung Moon ~
Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.
~By Archibald MacLeish ~
Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians.
~By Michael Crapo ~
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
~By Iris Murdoch ~
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the language of the treaty itself - of SOFA - and of the interim and further arrangements that have been made since 1995, and see whether or not we need to make any changes. Those are decisions I cannot make.
~By Howard Baker ~
Well, as far as I'm concerned, I'm not here to live a normal life. I'm sent here on a mission.
~By Howard Finster ~
If the courts are making the decisions, it matters who the judge is and, of course, people are concerned with what is the bottom line.
~By John Harrison ~
Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.
~By Albert J. Nock ~
I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics.
~By Bill Scott ~
But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern the theory of chemical reactions and related subjects.
~By Kenichi Fukui ~
If I were the president, I would be very concerned... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.
~By Max Baucus ~
I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.
~By Debbie Harry ~
With the club now in administration and concern about where the money for land sale has gone, I know there are huge commercial difficulties to be resolved, but I hope that football will once again become the most important issue.
~By Anne Campbell ~
Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
And that does concern me, because we're not getting enough back for our taxes that we're paying. I think we really have to look at the whole sort of area.
~By Rex Hunt ~
No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
~By Aneurin Bevan ~
I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had.
~By Ken Buck ~
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
~By Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ~
I've learned, I think, to be able to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary as far as my limited outside time is concerned. Saying "no" politely is a necessity if one wants to lead any kind of stable life.
~By Richard Chamberlain ~
After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators.
~By Simon van der Meer ~
I don't want my president to be a TV star. You don't have to be on television every minute of every day - you're the president, not a rerun of 'Law & Order'. TV stars are too worried bout being popular and too concerned about being renewed.
~By Bill Maher ~
I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.
~By Jeff Bingaman ~
Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people.
~By John Selden ~
I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.
~By Mark Spitz ~
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
~By Saint Augustine ~
Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.
~By John Sergeant Wise ~
They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults.
~By Jay London ~
One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice.
~By William P. Leahy ~
My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move.
~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
If someone puts up $100 million on a movie, they're gonna be concerned about whether they'll get it back. So they're not gonna make a movie about three girls, you know?
~By Lili Taylor ~
I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.
~By John Lithgow ~
For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common.
~By Elliot Richardson ~
Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.
~By Martin Freeman ~
Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account.
~By Chris Christie ~
What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.
~By Dietrich Fischer Dieskau ~
Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.
~By Harry Chapin ~
Judges pretty much act independently once they get on the bench so I'm not really sure why Harper's concerned that the court is currently being stacked with a lot of Liberal appointments.
~By Alan Young ~
Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.
~By Mercedes McCambridge ~
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
~By Plato ~
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
~By William James ~
The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes brought on by globalization and even the price of oil have thrown the nation's economic health into question.
~By Roger Mahony ~
I suppose I had these concerns but I really felt that I had to keep my scope very, very concentrated.
~By Atom Egoyan ~
Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.
~By John Searle ~
A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind... he will need only six feet of earth.
~By Josephus Daniels ~
I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.
~By Peter Jennings ~
As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.
~By George Harrison ~
The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.
~By Morris Raphael Cohen ~
You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
~By Bono ~
It is therefore utterly false to say that Marx revokes the law of value as far as individual commodities are concerned, and maintains it in force solely for the aggregate of these commodities.
~By Rudolf Hiferding ~
As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.
~By William Goldman ~
If they're in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners - they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands. And here we're so concerned about the treatment of those individuals.
~By James Inhofe ~
One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding.
~By Andrzej Wajda ~
The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.
~By Len Wein ~
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