“Sexual desire may burn like fire, but when you give a thought to when you are ill, then your excitement dies down. Fame and fortune may be sweet as candy, but when you give a thought to when you die, then their flavor is like chewing wax. Therefore, if people are usually concerned about death and illness, this can also dissolve unreal activities and develop longing for the way.” PeopleIfsWayGivingMayDesireDiesFireSweetActivityFameConcernedLongingFortuneIllIllnessExcitementTaoismFlavorCandyUnrealChewingSexual Desire Author:Zicheng Hong
“Many people who live in big countries like ours thought that we had resources that would work for us for many, many years, but that was a mistake. Our natural wealth corrupted us. In this country, you were among the first to raise environmental issues. In Russia, despite all of its problems today, people are concerned about the environment, and it's become a central issue on the agenda.” PeopleYearsFirstsCountryProblemBigsTodayNaturalWealthMistakeIssuesEnvironmentResourcesConcernedRaisesEnvironmentalRussiaDespiteAgendasEnvironmental Issues Author:Mikhail Gorbachev
“The fact that the U.S. government spends millions of dollars to send murderous robot planes into other people's land to murder them, into other countries, that's a problem. That's what people should be concerned about. The fact that other people don't understand me is not a problem. I keep things in perspective.” PeopleShouldCountryFactsProblemGovernmentMillionsLandPerspectiveConcernedMurderDollarsPlanesOther CountriesRobotsUnderstand Me Author:Ian MacKaye
“One day, a pretty, fresh-faced young lady - intelligent and sincerely concerned - asked me if abortion wasn't preferable to making a young, unmarried girl have a baby she didn't want and which would, therefore, grow up unloved and probably turn out to be a criminal. I gave an answer which apparently she hadn't considered. I told her there were literally millions of people in this country who wanted but could not have children and who waited eagerly, sometimes for years, to adopt the baby she had described.” PeopleIfsWantYearsChildrenCountrySometimesWantedYoungTurnsGirlGrowsAnswersMillionsGrowing UpBabyOne DayConcernedIntelligentCriminalsAbortionSincerelyUnlovedUnmarriedYoung Ladies Author:Ronald Reagan
“People who look at art don't really - don't go with the artist. They don't sort of accept what he or she has done and kind of go with it. There are always - either there's too much color or not enough color, either it's not conceptual enough or it's too conceptual. In other words, most criticism isn't what the viewer expected that it would do based on what they think you have done and that's good as far as I'm concerned.” PeopleThinkingLooksKindArtDoneEnoughArtistAcceptingToo MuchColorConcernedCriticismExpectedViewers Author:Robert Barry
“This is a very practical discussion about the fact that one of the largest coal companies in the world, Adani, wants to build one of the, develop one of the largest coal mines in Australia in this region of Australia. And if they get the green light to do that, that will secure the economic future of people in Rockhampton, and people in central Queensland. It will secure their jobs in the future, and that's what they're concerned about.” PeopleIfsWorldWantFactsLightJobsCompanyEconomicMinesConcernedGreenPracticalsSecureDiscussionAustraliaRegionsCoalQueenslandGreen Lights Author:George Brandis
“Surrendered people enjoy life, relish their personal development, and value their friends. They may have an exceptionally good career and be wealthy, but they are more concerned with meaning and fulfillment. The drive to acquire money and power is a behavior that drains people of their passion and emotional connection to others. They can admit when they're wrong.” PeopleMayValuesPassionEnjoyCareersEmotionalDevelopmentBehaviorConcernedConnectionsPersonal DevelopmentFulfillmentAcquireWealthyEnjoy LifeDrainsRelishMoney And PowerEmotional Connection Author:Judith Orloff
“Be a communicator, not a self-righteous proselytizer or preacher. Many people are only concerned with expressing themselves, which isn't necessarily communication.” PeopleSelfCommunicationConcernedRighteousPreacherSelf RighteousCommunicators Author:Sharon Gannon
“We're more concerned about climate or economic equality or racial justice or anything else that is good for people and the planet, we simply must also spend some time wresting back our money-marinated democracy. This will require getting money out of politics and then getting people back in.” PeopleJusticeDemocracyEconomicPlanetsConcernedClimateGet MoneyRacial JusticeEconomic Equality Author:Annie Leonard
“My life purpose is to inspire and empower people and organizations to live their highest vision in a context of love and joy and in harmony with the highest good of all concerned.” PeopleJoyPurposeVisionInspireHighestConcernedOrganizationHarmonyEmpoweringPurpose Of Life Author:Jack Canfield
“I take seriously the concerns that voters are expressing. There's a lot of disappointment, fear, even anger, among people who believe that the economy has failed them, their government has failed them, politics has failed them. They have every right to be concerned.” PeopleBelieveGovernmentEconomyConcernConcernedDisappointmentVoters Author:Hillary Clinton
“People that do good in the world or that want to do good, that have good intentions and want to help other people, and people that aren't concerned with themselves but more [with] others and helping in service of others - that inspires me.” PeopleWorldWantHelpingInspireConcernedIntentionHelping OthersGood IntentionsGood In The World Author:Daniella Alonso
“I look at Thich Nhat Hanh and I look at Marshall Rosenberg, and they're more concerned about the long range. And that long range means that you have to sit down with people who don't think like you. I want to reach people who don't think like me.” PeopleThinkingWantLooksMeanLongLike YouConcernedLike MeRangeThich Nhat Hanh Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I'm concerned, too, about ISIS' ability, right, to infiltrate people. But we have got some very effective, robust processes for vetting people. We brought in thousands of Iraqi refugees after the Iraq War. Not a single one has ever turned out to be a terrorist because the vetting was so good.” PeopleWarProcessAbilityConcernedIraqTerroristRefugeeIsisIraq WarRobust Author:Michael Morell
“I am truly passionate and concerned about the lack of empathy that people show towards one another.” PeopleShowsEmpathyConcernedPassionateLack Of Empathy Author:David Cross
“I promise you that during my life, I was more concerned about not letting people down, about doing my part, than I was ever into what it did for me. That is one of the great things about sports, and frankly, football really does instill that.” PeopleDoeSportsFootballPromiseConcernedGreat ThingsI PromiseInstill Author:Jerry Jones
“Donald Trump is more concerned about the American people, American citizens, people who are here legally, people that are struggling in this economy.” PeopleStruggleEconomyTrumpCitizensConcernedAmerican Citizens Author:Mike Pence
“I think it's obvious why someone wouldn't personally want to see these words on their feed, but I'm also concerned about the overall negative environment created when the comment section becomes a battleground for people to bully each other. I signed up for this.” PeopleThinkingWantEnvironmentConcernedNegativeObviousCommentSectionsBullyBattleground Author:Chrissy Teigen
“When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of all things. And they also deepened my sensitivity towards creation itself so that concern for God's creatures and animal rights followed from that. Some people think I'm an animal rights person who just happens, almost incidentally, to be religious. In fact, it's because I believe in God that I'm concerned about God's creatures. The religious impulse is primary.” PeopleThinkingBelievePersonsFactsHappensI BelieveReligiousAnimalRightsCreationCreaturesConcernConcernedAll ThingsSeriesCreatorI Believe InPrimariesImpulseBelieve In GodAnimal RightsTeensSensitivityI Believe In GodReligious Experience Author:Andrew Linzey
“In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don't think about music. They're not concerned with it. They don't take their musical legacy seriously.” PeopleThinkingCultureTermPerceptionConcernedMusicalLegacy Author:Alan Bishop
“Terrorism is an immediate problem that people are very concerned about, and I am as concerned about that as anyone else. But it isn't an either or situation.” PeopleProblemSituationConcernedTerrorismEither Or Author:David Attenborough
“America, fortunately or unfortunately, is very polarized right now. People fall into their different camps. And people are, are concerned. And they, they want to see change.” PeopleWantDifferentAmericaFallRight NowConcernedCamps Author:Robby Mook
“So many people there are in politics that they're overly cautious about laughing at stuff. They're so damned concerned about what everyone else is thinking. What are they worried about? Nobody ever walked into a show as a bleeding heart liberal and had a comedian undo 30 years of life experience.” PeopleThinkingYearsHeartShowsStuffLaughingConcernedWorriedComedianLife ExperienceCautiousBleedingYears Of LifeBleeding Heart Author:Bill Burr
“There's a guy in California who was voting 24 years after he died. I mean, so to suggest to us that people who are concerned about honest elections are somehow nutty, I think, is a mistake.” PeopleThinkingYearsMeanGuyMistakeHonestConcernedDiedElectionCaliforniaVotingNutty Author:Newt Gingrich
“I'm concerned with our autonomy. I don't like the idea of people collecting information on me in general, but I particularly don't like it when it's used to sort of exploit your weaknesses or make you lose control in some ways.” PeopleWayIdeasUsedLosesInformationWeaknessConcernedAutonomyExploitsCollectingCollecting Information Author:Tim Wu
“The importance of the term "genocide" for many Indigenous Peoples is that it is more than a term or an accusation; it is a word created in the wake of the Shoah in Europe to describe what happens when a people are targeted by a government for extermination, as were the Jews of Europe, and which is the term used in the most important international law related to concerned Indigenous Peoples, as the only international human rights law that pertains specifically to collectivities of people rather than individuals.” PeopleHumansImportantGovernmentHappensLawUsedIndividualTermRightsEuropeConcernedImportanceInternationalHuman RightsJewRelatedGenocideIndigenousAccusationInternational LawIndigenous PeopleExterminationCollectivity Author:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
“You can tell this by the program the federal government had to train 2,400 tractor drivers. They would have trained Negro and white together, but this man, Congressman Jamie Whitten, voted against it and everything that was decent. So, we've got to have somebody in Washington who is concerned about the people of Mississippi.” PeopleMenGovernmentTogetherWhiteConcernedProgramTrainDecentDriversFederal GovernmentMississippiCongressmanJamieTractors Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“I've spent some time in North and Central Queensland, in fact as recently as yesterday I was in Rockhampton, where the seat of Capricornia is based. I have to tell you that people in Queensland, but particularly regional Queensland, are very concerned about jobs. They are very concerned that the economic future for themselves and their children and their grandchildren should be - should be clear.” PeopleShouldChildrenFactsJobsClearEconomicConcernedYesterdaySeatsGrandchildrenQueensland Author:George Brandis
“One of the senior Labor frontbenchers from Queensland, Terri Butler, said that she was against the Adani mine. So that is the clearest statement we've had from a person who would be a member of a Shorten government, that if there were to be a Shorten government as far as she's concerned, the Adani mine wouldn't go ahead. People in Rockhampton know that and they're very worried about it.” PeopleIfsKnowsPersonsSaidGovernmentWould BeMinesMembersConcernedLaborStatementsWorriedSeniorButlersQueensland Author:George Brandis
“How is it possible for people in the modern world to go on killing each other for religion? The problems we should be concerned with nowadays are quite different!” PeopleWorldShouldDifferentProblemModernGoes OnConcernedKillingModern WorldKilling Each Other Author:Indira Gandhi
“I think we are obsessed in the U.S. with the personal, in ways that blind us to more important issues of life. I just think if we could take all the obsession with the personal (inaudible), and personal judgment and have people be concerned about the environment, what a different world we would live in.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWayImportantDifferentIssuesEnvironmentJudgmentConcernedBlindObsessionObsessedDifferent WorldsImportant Issues Author:Bell Hooks
“When people were very concerned about the violence against women, I encouraged people to stick with it because it was going somewhere and there was a reason why. It's all a commentary on gender roles and women and having to be the damsel or to stay on the ranch or to stay at home.” PeopleReasonHomeRolesViolenceConcernedSticksGenderReason WhyCommentaryGender RolesViolence Against WomenStay At Home Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“The first thing we should be concerned about the BLM movement should be the issues that the Black Lives Matter movement is bringing forward. There's no fundamental platform being brought by activists in Oakland, Baltimore, or New Jersey. The main issues that you see, the commonality between activists all around the country, are trying to deal with the challenges in the criminal justice system, something that is very much central to my work. So my hope is that people stay focused on the urgency to create justice here at home.” PeopleShouldTryingFirstsCountryMatterHomeBlackChallengesJusticeDealsIssuesMovementConcernedFundamentalsFocusedCriminalsActivistPlatformsJerseyBlack Lives MatterUrgencyStay FocusedJustice SystemNew JerseyCriminal JusticeBaltimoreCriminal Justice SystemCommonalityOaklandBlack Lives Author:Cory Booker
“No one is concerned with Central America anymore. If a million people are facing starvation in northern Nicaragua and Honduras, it's none of our business. Few people even recognize that this situation is in part an outgrowth of US policies going back to the 1980's. Nobody is concerned because Nicaragua is technically stable.” PeopleIfsAmericaSituationMillionsPolicyConcernedStableStarvationNicaraguaCentral AmericaHonduras Author:Noam Chomsky
“I'm not trying to be mean. You [ Nicholas Kristof] have written about climate change. You're really concerned and you've thought a lot about the suffering of people in other countries. It doesn't seem like you have thought that deeply about the suffering of your fellow Americans. You don't have the solutions say as you do for global warming. And my question is: Isn't it always easier for the elites to identify with abstractions or poor people in other countries and kind of ignore their own country men. I have noticed this. Have you noticed that?” PeopleMenTryingKindMeanCountrySeemsSufferingPoorWrittenLike YouEasierSolutionsConcernedFellowsClimateClimate ChangeGlobal WarmingElitesOther CountriesAbstractionPoor PeopleNicholas Kristof Author:Tucker Carlson
“I am deeply concerned about the kind of people Hillary Clinton's surrounded herself with in the past.” PeopleKindPastConcernedClinton Author:Rashid Khalidi
“It's what [Hillary Clinton] embodied and what the Clinton mystique was as it was passed down from parents to children and so forth. Because logically none of this makes any sense, as you are encountering. So you're trying to confront all these people with logic, and I would maintain to you that they don't have any where this is concerned.” PeopleTryingChildrenParentConcernedLogicClintonMystiqueParent Child Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Democrats are as concerned about raising our kids and making sure that the values of empathy and hard work and discipline and self-respect are instilled in our children, and I've got a six-year-old daughter and a three-year-old daughter, and I'm not afraid to talk about how I want to provide them with the sort of cultural framework that's going to allow them to be successful, happy people.” PeopleWantYearsChildrenSelfHardKidsValuesThreeSuccessfulHard WorkDisciplineSixEmpathyDaughterConcernedOur ChildrenDemocratSelf RespectBeing SuccessfulThree YearsNot AfraidFrameworkHappy PeopleSix Year OldsThree Year Olds Author:Barack Obama
“I think that people are concerned about the breakdown of the family but they also don't want to see discrimination against gays and lesbians who they work with and they want to be able to make sure that gays can visit each other in hospitals and be able to inherit property.” PeopleThinkingWantAbleGayConcernedPropertyDiscriminationHospitalsBreakdown Author:Barack Obama
“I am deeply concerned - about virtually everything that Trump is talking about and has talked about in his campaign and the kind of people that he is appointing.” PeopleKindTalkingTrumpConcernedCampaigns Author:Bernie Sanders
“Any politician who respects China's government should tell it openly what is in his heart. It is disrespectful to keep quiet about such issues - both vis-a-vis the government and the people concerned.” PeopleShouldHeartGovernmentIssuesPoliticianQuietConcernedChinaDisrespectful Author:Ai Weiwei
“I would not advise people who feel strongly or are concerned about some of the issues that have been raised during the course of the [president electing] campaign.” PeopleFeelsHas BeensCoursesPresidentIssuesConcernedRaisedCampaignsAdvise Author:Barack Obama
“So the idea about how detonation of a nuclear weapon might happen vary, you know - some people are especially concerned about terrorists getting their hands on nuclear weapons and using them. Some people are worried that there might be a nuclear war between India and Pakistan. Some think the Middle East, were Israel already has nuclear weapons and where other countries may be interested at some point and acquiring them, might be a flash point.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMayIdeasWarCountryHandsMightHappensMiddleWeaponsConcernedIndiaIsraelEastNuclearTerroristWorriedMiddle EastNuclear WeaponsFlashOther CountriesPakistanVaryNuclear WarIndia And Pakistan Author:John Burroughs
“Whereas the only real solution to the race problem in this country is a solution that involves individual self improvement and collective self improvement in, whereas our own, wherein our own people are concerned.” PeopleRealSelfCountryProblemIndividualRaceSolutionsSelf ImprovementConcernedImprovementCollectives Author:Malcolm X
“Why are people so concerned with relativism? If you look back in history, millions of people were killed because of someone's dogmatic views, but I do not remember anybody being killed due to the tolerance of difference, to relativism; ethically relativism does not seem to be such an awful thing, really.” PeopleIfsLooksDoeSeemsRememberDifferencesViewsMillionsConcernedDuesToleranceAwfulDogmaticRelativism Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“The American people want to make sure that the rules of the game are fair. And what that means is that if you look at surveys around Americans' attitudes on trade, the majority of the American people still support trade. But they're concerned about whether or not trade is fair, and whether we get the same access to other countries' markets that they have with us. Is there just a race to the bottom when it comes to wages, and so forth.” PeopleIfsWantLooksMeanStillsCountryGamesRaceAttitudeSupportConcernedFairsTradeMajorityBottomAccessOther CountriesWagesSurveysRules Of The Game Author:Barack Obama
“People ask me all the time how I prepare and, to tell you the truth, I think if what's on the page is rich and compelling, as far as I'm concerned, if it's beautifully presented on the page, all you have to do is put yourself there and pretend, and the rest takes care of itself. That is, unless it's a real stretch with an accent or if history matters where research has to be done.” PeopleIfsThinkingRealMatterDoneCareAsksRichPagesResearchConcernedTake CareAsk MeCompellingAccents Author:Miguel Ferrer
“I think Martin Luther King would always keep track of collective insurgencies among poor and working people. He was concerned about the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union, for example. He would have closely followed the Arab Spring. And certainly he would be very critical of the massive surveillance state that has emerged in America in the last five to 10 years. He would have approved of the movements trying to gain some accountability in U.S. foreign policy, such as drones being (used) on innocent people. I think he would march against drones.” PeopleThinkingTryingYearsStatesWould BeLastsAmericaUsedPoorFivePolicyExampleMovementKingsSpringGainsConcernedUnionsTrackJewCriticalInnocentCollectivesTreatmentAccountabilityMarchMassiveSovietForeign PolicySoviet UnionLutherSurveillanceApprovedDronesArab SpringInsurgencySurveillance State Author:Cornel West
“My concern was first, for the black people of Mississippi, then I became concerned for black people nationwide, now my concern is for black people all over the world. I began to realize that it's not as much about race as we think it is. It's about the rich vs. the poor. I feel as if the different races are pitted against one another so we won't see the bigger (financial disparity) problem.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldFeelsFirstsDifferentProblemBlackRealizingPoorRaceRichConcernConcernedBiggerFinancialBlack PeopleMississippiDisparityDifferent Races Author:David Banner
“I am concerned that people who admire [Ayn] Rand are not often critical enough of the extent to which she has abridged the implications of [her] novels.” PeopleEnoughNovelConcernedCriticalAdmireImplications Author:Murray Bookchin