“Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.”
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Anxious Quotes — page 35 of 107
“It is what we fear that happens to us.”
“Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.”
“Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.”
“A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.”
“The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.”
“What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared.”
“Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape.”
“In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.”
“His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked.”
“Something I wrote quite a few years ago was, "The voices in my head, they don't care what I do, they just want to argue the matter through and through." It is a common mistake, to think you're going to go into some kind of spiritual practice and you're going to be relieved of the human burdens, from human crosses like thought, jealousy, despair - in fact, if anything, these feelings are amplified.”
“Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.”
“The strongest passion is fear.”
“And for this you must have quiet and solitude. But society does not allow you to have them. You must be with people, outwardly active at all costs. If you are alone you are considered antisocial or peculiar, or you are afraid of your own loneliness.”
“This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.”
“Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.”
“Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.”
“I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.”
“We can't discount how scary and shaken not just the Turkish government is, but Turkish society is. Imagine if you had some rump group of military officials here in the United States who started flying off with F-16s or other artillery and were taking shots at government buildings, and people were killed and injured. People would be scared and rightfully so.”
“The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.”