Overanxious Quotes & Sayings

As an actor, I don't really think you find yourself. I mean, once you find yourself, I think it becomes boring and you become set in your ways. I think, as an actor I think it's not a bad thing but more of a gift. It's something you're always doing as an actor. You're adjusting constantly. — Justin Chon

One can run away from anything but oneself — Stefan Zweig

We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed. — Michel De Montaigne

Maybe, peace was preferable to pleasure. Maybe, peace is one's first love. — Anuradha Bhattacharyya

There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry. — Criss Jami

The child of God should not be overanxious to make new gains; what he essentially requires is to keep what he already has, for not losing is itself a gain. The way to retain what he possesses is to engage it. — Watchman Nee

I wanted to create clothes for women in their 40s and 50s and 60s who have careers and are sexy and don't want to look like grandmothers. — Joseph Altuzarra

Terror skittered around the fringes of his consciousness on fast rodent feet. — Walter Jon Williams

Suddenly, four or five soldiers with round helmets and guns in hand enter the courtyard. One of them, presumably the commander, knocks hard on the door while shouting, with a strong Yankee accent: 'We are American soldiers ... Are there any Germans here?' His manner is so imperious and sure, you would think he had already won the war. We greet them with open arms. Their confidence is so contagious that we consider the Liberation to be already accomplished. As if the entire German army were obliterated in only one night. — Mary Louise Roberts

Help others find their way, their own values, and guide them through life's ups and downs. — Hyrum W. Smith

I want to win, so sometimes I get a little overanxious. — Prince

I love the free spirit in London. — Carine Roitfeld

When what one does, reps, or 'spits', repetitively, is foul or beastly - one summons spiritual undertakers to dine on fleshly parasites. In various forms, nature's law purges all that becomes wasteful. Change your game, or the game will change you. — T.F. Hodge

All pains the immortal spirit must endure,
All weakness that impairs, all griefs that bow,
Find their sole voice in that victorious brow. — Matthew Arnold

I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your own comic fallibilities; that gives you tranquility without complacency because you believe in something so much larger than yourself. — Hugh Walpole

And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups. — Wendell Willkie

I have closed that page of my life without rancor. I do not disown any of the work done. — Riccardo Muti