Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US.
~By Recep Tayyip Erdogan ~
There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.
~By Toni Morrison ~
The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive images as far as African Americans are concerned, really turned me on to The Best Man.
~By Taye Diggs ~
Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.
~By Philip Stanhope ~
A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.
~By W. G. Sebald ~
The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
Well, our concern has to do with the period prior to 9/11, up to and including the catastrophe that occurred. And thank goodness, we're not obliged to make assessments of what's going on now and deal with these current events.
~By Richard Ben Veniste ~
I believe that a contract, or at least an understanding, exists between the American public and the American advertiser concerning what advertising is, what its limitations are and what price people will pay for it.
~By John O'Toole ~
We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.
~By Frank McCourt ~
But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.
~By Liam Neeson ~
He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.
~By Jack Nicklaus ~
Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire.
~By Jan Egeland ~
As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.
~By Neil Gaiman ~
Kolkata is the relatively unexplored part of India as far as Hindi films are concerned.
~By Sanjay Dutt ~
The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.
~By Hjalmar Branting ~
Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.
~By Helen Reddy ~
Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.
~By Len Wein ~
I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
I mean, all the ratings wars are silly. But, I mean, someone has to be concerned about the ratings because it means, you know, it translates into revenue.
~By Connie Chung ~
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.
~By Brent Spiner ~
I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth.
~By Nelson Goodman ~
As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down.
~By Tina Yothers ~
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
It is amazing to me, as a professional geologist, how many otherwise intelligent people have, as some may say, 'drunk the Al Gore Kool-Aid' concerning global climate change.
~By Earl F. Titcomb, Jr. ~
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
~By Charles de Lint ~
Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office.
~By Ralph Allen ~
For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.
~By Peter Jennings ~
I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.
~By William Scott ~
Everybody on this floor wants to send the same loud and clear message: that Congress is united in its opposition to terror and we are all deeply concerned about the future and security of our close friend and ally, Israel.
~By Earl Blumenauer ~
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 have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot of research on that. Or on any legal matters, for example, I have to do a lot of research online.
~By Evan Hunter ~
So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.
~By Simon Newcomb ~
Oh, the transition concerns me because as we move towards an important political event, it's clear to me that the terrorists and insurgents will move as hard as they can to disrupt this process.
~By John Abizaid ~
I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights.
~By David Duke ~
I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
~By A. R. Ammons ~
It is a very real concern and my view is that everything changed on September 11th and the procedure, the policies that were in place prior to September 11th no longer should apply.
~By George Pataki ~
The recent 'panic' to control greenhouse gas emissions and billions of dollars being dedicated for the task has me deeply concerned that US, and other countries are spending precious global funds to stop global warming, when it is primarily being driven by natural forcing mechanisms.
~By Diane Douglas ~
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
So I am concerned about the amount of time we have to make it, cause it doesn't matter how much money you have, you can't create more time.
~By Matthew Vaughn ~
If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.
~By Dave Barry ~
That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.
~By Isaac Barrow ~
We want to be sensitive to people's concerns about privacy about their personal being and things, while ensuring that everybody on every flight has been properly screened.
~By John Pistole ~
You can't be evangelical and associate yourself with Jesus and what he says about the poor and just have no other domestic concerns than tax cuts for wealthy people.
~By Jim Wallis ~
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
~By Paul Tillich ~
The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.
~By Italo Calvino ~
I was a little concerned with how the crew was going to view me because I didn't know whether this program had been kinda forced down their throats. But they were wonderful.
~By Christa McAuliffe ~
It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
~By Randal Kleiser ~
My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it.
~By Samuel Lover ~
Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.
~By Will Harvey ~
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 ~
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 ~
I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.
~By Jock Sturges ~
Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.
~By Xun Zi ~
Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.
~By Alfred Doblin ~
That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
~By Antonia Fraser ~
You have to be concerned with yourself because if you're not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be.
~By Herbie Mann ~
These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.
~By Karl Philipp Moritz ~
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.
~By James L. Buckley ~
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 filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.
~By Ed Harris ~
As far as I'm concerned I've never had a problem with anybody, no rivalry.
~By Soundarya ~
My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.
~By Robert E. Lee ~
In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.
~By Michael Pollan ~
When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.
~By Charisma Carpenter ~
There's so much mudslinging going on, and people get so turned off by that. It seems like neither party is aware of that. They're too concerned with blasting each other.
~By Steve Chabot ~
The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.
~By Gloria Swanson ~
But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.
~By Stephanie Beacham ~
Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Just because I publish pornography does not mean that I am not concerned about the social ills that all of us are.
~By Larry Flynt ~
Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.
~By Paul Berg ~
Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.
~By Algernon Sydney ~
Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.
~By Marvin Olasky ~
Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
~By Matthew Arnold ~
Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.
~By Fred Upton ~
On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy.
~By Henry Hampton ~
The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
~By Orson Pratt ~
Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
~By Miguel de Unamuno ~
As far as I'm concerned, I didn't dream - ever.
~By Theodore Sturgeon ~
In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington.
~By Fred Thompson ~
Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.
~By Mary Richards ~
I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.
~By Norman Granz ~
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
~By Paul Gauguin ~
The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show that it was intended for man's instruction.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
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.
~By Walter Washington ~
There's something about prime time television and the way the song is going to come off on the air. I'm very concerned, very self-conscious about that.
~By Jon Secada ~
We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
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 ~
Leaking of classified material is a concern.
~By Robert Mueller ~
We know well enough that if we repeal this law and give nothing for it, the people of this country will regard it as a total demonetization of silver, which it will be, so far as this Congress is concerned, without any question.
~By Richard Parks Bland ~
Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
~By Ted Shackelford ~
The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
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.
~By Saxby Chambliss ~
Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent.
~By Stokely Carmichael ~
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