#concern

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#death #does #even #everything #express

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. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#arrive #concern #conclusions #exposition #follow

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#adolescent #challenge #culture #educational #inevitable

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability. ↗

— Confucius

#concerned #i #knowing #me #men

I mean, you know, you're looking at a guy who has a manager, who's created a life for me that - I mean, I don't pay phone bills and electric bills. I have somebody to do that for me. I've been very, very lucky. And I live in this insular sort of world, you know, so everything's, you know, everything's got a silver lining as far as I'm concerned. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#been #bills #concerned #created #electric

Communists should be the first to be concerned about other people and country and the last to enjoy themselves. ↗

— Zhao Ziyang

#be the first #communists #concerned #country #enjoy

The main concern was making sure the kids didn't get caught in the middle. ↗

— Hunter Tylo

#concern #get #kids #main #main concern

I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#as far as #concerned #dignified #far #fight

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. ↗

— Bono

#allowed #anywhere #because #commitment #concern

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

#burden #concern #into #made #prayer