#concern

I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth. ↗

— Nelson Goodman

#am #concerned #dreamt #earth #heaven

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. ↗

— Bob Graham

#activities #america #areas #been #brought

I said to the German Ambassador that, as long as there was only a dispute between Austria and Serbia alone, I did not feel entitled to intervene; but that, directly it was a matter between Austria and Russia, it became a question of the peace of Europe, which concerned us all. ↗

— Edward Grey

#ambassador #austria #became #between #concerned

All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished. ↗

— George Grey

#chance #chief #concerned #consists #little

I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

#coming #concerning #contemporary #diverse #evolve

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. ↗

— Henry Hampton

#around #being #black #color #concerned

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. ↗

— Learned Hand

#doing #done #fabrication #finished #finished product

When little old ladies recognize a guy who was Mr. Olympia, that's saying something. That means I've been able to cross lines as far as marketability is concerned. ↗

— Lee Haney

#as far as #been #concerned #cross #far

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. ↗

— John Harrison

#bottom line #concerned #course #courts #decisions

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#art form #concern #essential #form #language