c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
As well as a shared mentality, the Establishment is cemented by financial links and a 'revolving door' culture: that is, powerful individuals gliding between the political, corporate and media worlds - or who manage to inhabit these various worlds at the same time. The terms of political debate are in large part dictated by a media controlled by a small number of exceptionally rich owners, while think tanks and political parties are funded by wealthy individuals and corporate interests.
— Owen   Jones, The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It
A corruption of intentions.
— Robert Ludlum, The Matlock Paper
No global corruption scandal can be complete without mentioning Pakistani politicians.
— Arzak Khan
To mourn is not to fear
— House of Cards
It is as if we were to start hacking a path through the Amazon forest. By the time we have proceeded a hundred yards, the undergrowth takes over again.
— Edward Luce
The financial elite already have the politicians in their pockets, as a result of their lobbying.
— Kenneth Eade, Terror on Wall Street, a Financial Metafiction Novel
Henry Lloyd was with Darrow when they toured the mine. It was a dreadful experience, Lloyd said, "like a foretaste of the inferno.""You might as well get used to it," Darrow told him. Heaven was reserved for Wall Street financiers. Infidels like themselves would be rooming with Satan.
— John A. Farrell
I've seen all kinds of things done to dolphins in my travels around the world, but I have never seen anything as horrible as this dolphin drive hunt in Taiji.
— Richard O'Barry, Behind the Dolphin smile: One Man's Campaign to Protect the World's Dolphins
Almost everyone in politics nowadays has at least one conflict of interest.
— Kenneth Eade, Terror on Wall Street, a Financial Metafiction Novel
We know something about billionaire consumption, but it is hard to measure some of it. Some billionaires are consuming politicians, others consume reporters, and some consume academics...
— Thomas Piketty
protectionI requested the figures on OSHA whistle-blower complaints made and the number actually upheld. OSHA refused to supply them. They also refused to uphold my OSHA complaints and provide whistle-blower protection to me. My independent research leads me to understand that they uphold almost no OSHA whistle-blower complaints. It is very concerning that it seems like the same thing is happening with complaints made to Police Internal Affairs.
— Steven Magee
The kind of value system prevailing in a country determines the country's reaction and view on corruption.
— Sunday Adelaja
We must stop calling corruption a “Nigerian factor”.
— Sunday Adelaja
The day to day corruption that is carried out everywhere in the country, from the streets to the offices are as detrimental to the nation as any other form of corruption.
— Sunday Adelaja
For a nation to be corruption free, that culture must first be created through the proclamation and propaganda of a correspondent value system.
— Sunday Adelaja
The level of corruption in a country is determined by the value systems of that country.
— Sunday Adelaja
Since when has corruption everywhere, homes, streets, offices, become a Nigerian factor
— Sunday Adelaja
Suddenly I was tired of Lotterman; he was a phony and he didn't even know it. He was forever yapping about freedom of the press and keeping the paper going, but if he'd had a million dollars and all the freedom in the world he'd still put out a worthless newspaper because he wasn't smart enough to put out a good one. He was just another noisy little punk in the great legion of punks who marched between the banners of bigger and better men. Freedom, Truth, Honour — you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.I stood up. "Ed," I said using his name for the first time, "I believe I'll quit.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Every phenomenon is a corrupt version of another, largerphenomenon: time, a disease of eternity; history, a disease oftime; life, again, a disease of matter.Then what is normal, what is healthy? Eternity? Which itselfis only an infirmity of God.
— Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born
If a politician wins in a dirty way at election, he will sat in position and works with corruption.
— Bradley B. Dalina
How quickly we come around,' Sazed whispered. 'It wasn't long ago that men were forced to watch the Lord Ruler cut the heads from innocent people. Now we do it to ourselves.
— Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn Trilogy Boxed Set
This is the kind of corruption we understand, the corruption of the petty clerk writ large, and so this is the kind of corruption we look for. This is the kind of guilt we expect and understand: personal, targeted, involving suitcases. We really need suitcases.
— Mihir S. Sharma, Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian Economy
To survive in a corrupt country, you need to be the son of a king or be king yourself.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Corruption is an inevitable by-product of the present structure of Nigeria's federalism. Once we restructure the polity into a true fiscal federalism, everything else will simply fall into place. Until then, corruption remains as official as it is legal in Nigeria.
— Tony Osborg, Can Nigeria Bake Her Own Bread?
Corruption is never compulsory.
— Sheldon Vanauken, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph
Love and Non – Violence cannot heal the wounds which corruption and injustice have caused.
— Ashutosh Naliapara
We look for things or people that are incorruptible. There is nothing incorruptible, merely uncorrupted. We neglect the role we play. We value innocence, but only the kind we cannot alter. We throw mud at purity and mock it for its stain.
— James Rozoff
Corruption is not bribery but bribery is corruption.
— Auliq Ice
It is not a first time in history that we have got people who have sold out and subverted the ideas for which they stood for in the past.
— Auliq Ice
When the clouds over the land rise like a mountain, a long with it's wishes, it can never cover the errors and mistakes made by Kings.
— Auliq Ice
A badge (police badge) isnt a hallmark of impunity, its a trademark of justice!
— T.J. Henricks
Morality never scratch the back of corruption
— Kishore Bansal
These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does.
— Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things
It's the ones who can't let go - of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power - who are most at risk of becoming corrupted.
— Kate Elliott, Traitors' Gate
When I looked around the neighborhood, I found out that kids wasn’t the only crooks. We was surrounded by crooks, and plenty of ’em was guys that were supposed to be legit, like the landlords and the storekeepers and the politicians and cops on the beat. All of ‘em was stealin’ from somebody. And we had the real pros, the old Dons from the old country, with their big black cars and mustaches to match. We used to make fun of them behind their backs, but our parents were scared to death of them. The only thing is, we knew they was rich, and rich was what counted, because the rich got away with anythin'.
— Martin Gosch, Last Testament of Lucky Luciano: The Mafia Story in His Own Words
Where justice if negotiable, filthiness becomes delectable
— Tony Osborg
There's pearl of the orient seas but it happens to be also a pearl of orient corruptions.
— Angelica Hopes
Politics should make a thief, a roué, and a pessimist of anyone but I don't believe I am any of them...
— Harry Truman
There are two sides of corruption: 1. Those who feel and see the corruption because they are the victim of it 2. Those who pretend there is no corruption because they are profiting from it.
— Camiel van Doorn
He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits.
— Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
The capital of the United States is the home to the best of the worst humanity has to offer. The most corrupt, the most deceitful, the most tyrannical, the most greedy, and the most evil rise through the ranks of the political machines and eventually find themselves safely in bed participating in the incestuous orgy of corruption occurring daily in Washington, DC.
— Justin King
One day, I want enough money to be at the center of a corruption scandal.
— Gil A. Waters
Protesting is never a disturbance of the peace. Corruption, injustice, war and intimidation are disturbances of the peace.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
[The wilderness] had caressed him, and—lo!—he had withered; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of some devilish initiation.
— Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
As the seemingly well-intentioned French journalist spoke about Africa’s scarcity and its limited resources, Nine smiled to himself almost condescendingly. He considered such statements an absolute joke. Africa did not, nor did it ever have, limited resources.Nine knew something the journalist obviously didn’t: Africa was the most abundantly resourced continent on the planet bar none. Like the despots who ruled much of the region, and the foreign governments who propped them up, he knew there was more than enough wealth in Africa’s mineral resources such as gold, diamonds and oil – not to mention the land that nurtured these resources – for every man, woman and child. He thought it unfortunate Africa had never been able to compete on a level playing field. The continent’s almost unlimited resources were the very reason foreigners had meddled in African affairs for the past century or more. Nine knew it was Omega’s plan, and that of other greedy organizations, to siphon as much wealth as they could out of vulnerable Third World countries, especially in Africa. The same organizations had the formula down pat: they indirectly started civil wars in mineral-rich regions by providing arms to opposing local factions, and sometimes even helped to create famines, in order to destabilize African countries. This made the targeted countries highly vulnerable to international control. Once the outside organizations had divided and conquered, they were then able to plunder the country’s resources.
— James Morcan, The Ninth Orphan
Nepotism is the lowest and least imaginative form of corruption.
— Daniel Alarcón, At Night We Walk in Circles
But now I understand something more fully that I once only understood abstractly. I see how utterly ridiculous it is to think that the state can be the right means to help those who are poor or living at the margins of society. The state is their enemy, as it is for everyone else.
— Jeffrey Tucker, Bourbon for Breakfast: Living Outside the Statist Quo
Money, dished out in quantities fitting the context, is a social lubricant here. It eases passage even as it maintains hierarchies. Fifty naira for the man who helps you back out from the parking spot, two hundred naira for the police officer who stops you for no good reason in the dead of night, ten thousand for the clearing agent who helps you bring your imported crate through customs. For each transaction, there is a suitable amount that helps things on their way. No one else seems to worry, as I do, that the money demanded by someone whose finger hovers over the trigger of a AK-47 is less a tip than a ransom. I feel that my worrying about it is a luxury that few can afford. For many Nigerians, the giving and receiving of bribes, tips, extortion money, or alms--the categories are fluid--is not thought of in moral terms. It is seen either as a mild irritant or as an opportunity. It is a way of getting things done, neither more nor less than what money is there for.
— Teju Cole, Every Day is for the Thief
Knowledge is power, isn't that what we say? But power corrupts. An institution based on knowledge and learning can't help but be a corrupt institution.
— Sam Cabot, Blood of the Lamb: A Novel of Secrets
Those who feel the pain of others are the most eligible for all joy of the world, unfortunately this rule is too corrupt.
— Kartik Mehta
I must have had some high object in life, for I feel unbounded strength within me. But I never discovered it and was carried away by the allurements of empty, un-rewarding passions. I was tempered in their flames and came out cold and hard as steel, but I'd lost forever that fire of noble endeavour, that finest flower of life. How many time since then have I been an axe in the hands of fate? Like an engine of execution, I've descended on the heads of the condemned, often without malice, but always without pity. My love has brought no one happiness, for I've never sacrificed a thing for those I've loved. I've loved for myself, for my own pleasure, I've only tried to satisfy a strange inner need. I've fed on their feelings, love, joys and sufferings, and always wanted more. I'm like a starving man who falls asleep exhausted and sees rich food and sparkling wines before him. He rapturously falls on these phantom gifts of the imagination and feels better, but the moment he wakes up his dream disappears and he's left more hungry and desperate than before.
— Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time
Time Is Speeding Up In Relation To Corruption. Hold On Tight.
— Dean Cavanagh
I almost forgot to tell you - you have the right to remain silent, but if you do, my boys at the station will process your bones to help you confess.
— Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
If we elect the same corrupt politicians every time, that's a very clear message that we don't want a change.
— Sukant Ratnakar
The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.
— William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other
He places me on the concrete floor, expressionless as he studies me. “It’ll be easier next time,” he whispers, “killing on command.” 1352 hunkers in front of me, his brown eyes boring into mine. “They’ll desensitise you through exposure or drive you mad by it. Either way, sooner or later the death will cease to matter to you. All that remains to be seen is if you’ll retain your sanity when that happens.”“Is that what they did to you?” I snarl at him, my fear of the truth in his admission urging me to anger.“No,” 1352 answers simply, “they didn’t need to because I’ve been theirs from the moment I woke up.” He rests a palm over my chest, “You though, you still have a heart. You’re not a corpse made animate. They need to kill you before they can possess you but death is not always the stilling of a pulse. Sometimes it takes the more complex task of destroying a soul to kill a person, rather than simply sending it on its way. They need to corrupt you because they need you to behave in a way that overshadows everything you’ve ever stood for previously, only then can they claim you.
— Angela Louise McGurk, Allegiance
The more it (vaccination) is supported by public authorities, the more will its dangers and disadvantages be concealed or denied.
— M. Beddow Bayly
The passion for defiling things was inborn in her. It was not enough for her to destroy them, she had to soil them too.
— Émile Zola, Nana
In the West, and among some in the Indian elite, this word, corruption, had purely negative connotations; it was seen as blocking India’s modern, global ambitions. But for the poor of a country where corruption thieved a great deal of opportunity, corruption was one of the genuine opportunities that remained.
— Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
It only too often yields to the temptation to become sycophantic, opportunist and lying, like a politician who sees the truth but wants to keep his place in popular favour.
— Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id
What if we were to subject public servants like politicians to a battery of psychological tests like the MMPI? Maybe we could determine which of them were more likely to become corrupt and save them the trouble of lengthy, expensive campaigns where they are ultimately harassed by greedy corporations.
— Aaron B. Powell, Quixotic
Then again, given that human history appears to be defined by a succession of more or less corrupt ruling elites, and if we are to assume that such corruption (and its spread throughout society) is the mechanism by which a civilization attracts cosmic catastrophe, blaming and deposing the elite is a good solution. The problem, however, is that the underlying mechanism is not understood by the people, which means that they lack the knowledge that, if they are to prevent further destruction, they must, at all costs, prevent the establishment of any future corrupt elite.
— Laura Knight-Jadczyk
The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.
— David Remnick, Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
As Abdul and his family had already learned, the police station was not a place where victimhood was redressed and public safety held dear. It was a hectic bazaar, like many other public institutions in Mumbai, and investigating Kalu’s death was not a profit-generating enterprise.
— Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.
— Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Sometimes I felt the bloated Toad, hideous and pampered with the poisonous vapours of the dungeon, dragging his loathsome length along my bosom: Sometimes the quick cold Lizard rouzed me leaving his slimy track upon my face, and entangling itself in the tresses of my wild and matted hair: Often have I at waking found my fingers ringed with the long worms which bred in the corrupted flesh of my Infant.
— Matthew      Lewis, The Monk
He knew why he and the other children received ice cream only when newspaper photographers came to visit, and why food and clothing donated for the children got furtively resold outside the orphanage gate.
— Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Food wasn’t one of the amenities at Cooper, the five-hundred-bed hospital on which millions of poor people depended. Nor was medicine. “Out of stock today” was the nurses’ official explanation. Plundered and resold out of supply cabinets was an unofficial one. What patients needed, families had to buy on the street and bring in.
— Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Proof then, has retreated in the face of belief. Science, once heralded as the arbiter of truth, has had its facade of objectivity punctured. Intellectuals may point to the uncertainty of Heisenberg, but generally this has more to do with the growing distrust of statistics and the knowledge that scientists in the pay of governments and multi-nationals are no more objective than their masters. Science, once the avowed enemy of religion, now sees books by Christian physicists and Taoist mathematicians. Science sells washing powders and status symbols and comes in the form of icons of technological nostalgia.
— Phil Hine, Rebels and Devils: The Psychology of Liberation
Art corrupts. Absolute art corrupts absolutely. Please corrupt me absolutely.
— Robert  Black
Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.
— Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
— Stendhal, The Red and the Black
Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities--you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation.
— Voltaire, Candide
There’s always someone bigger and badder who can knock you off your perch—even if you’re me. Never forget it and you don’t have to worry about corruption. You’ll be too afraid with watching your own back. --Alexandria "Dria" McAndrews
— C.J. Ellisson, Death's Servant
I make love like a snake disguised as an elephant and a donkey. But I mustn’t talk about sexual congress and Congress simultaneously. 
— Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
Corporate greed controls political will.
— Aaron B. Powell
But after living in Communist China for the past seventeen years, I knew that such a society was only a dream because those who seized power would invariably become the new ruling class. They would have the power to control the people’s lives and bend the people’s will. Because they controlled the production and distribution of goods and services in the name of the state, they would also enjoy material luxuries beyond the reach of the common people. In Communist China, details of the private lives of the leaders were guarded as state secrets. But every Chinese knew that the Party leaders lived in spacious mansions with many servants, obtained their provisions from special shops where luxury goods were made available to their household at nominal prices, and send their children in chauffeur-driven cars to exclusive schools to be taught by specially selected teachers. Even though every Chinese knew how these leaders lived, no one dared to talk about it. If we had to pass by a special shop for the military or high officials, we carefully looked the other way to avoid giving the impression we knew it was there. Pg. 90
— Nien Cheng, Life and Death in Shanghai
I came to the state twenty years ago from the South, the gothic South. I’ve heard it called that, haven’t you, Mister Morgan? ‘Thought I was gettin’ away from all that. You know, the Tennessee Williams’ decadence, the Huey Long corruption, the brewin’ and simmerin’ violence. I actually found that I kind of missed it. Then, I found out it was all here, too, but without the charm.
— Jackson Burnett, The Past Never Ends
Might and wrong combined, like iron magnetized, are endowed with irresistible attraction.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
You can not change the past but you can change the future.
— Immortal Technique
My mind mends my motives and my notion navigates my natives,for we all are made of soil-our corrupted soil.
— Munia Khan
Love corrupts and absolute love corrupts absolutely. The unreasonable systems of men, that is.
— Silvia Hartmann
Get into Parliament, make tiresome speeches; you will have great offers; do not accept them at first, then do: then make great provision for yourself and family, and then call yourself an independent country gentleman.
— Hans Stanley
We know we are all tarnished, so we doubt everyone else too. It is sad situation, where we need a leader but cannot really trust anyone.
— Chetan Bhagat, What Young India Wants
Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul?
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Most people bought the corporate party line. Experience and wisdom needed to make way for youth and beauty. The more people consumed, the better off was the economy. Newer. Bigger. Brighter. These were the things sought.
— Blue Tent Carla R. Herrera
Loyalty in the legal world is distorting its own peculiar sense of reality. Loyalty is the legal world's gravity: it holds that world together; it is omnipotent; it cannot be seen but its effects are observable; it can be a powerful force of destruction. As it grows stronger and more powerful, one can only hope such a strange world will be ultimately crushed by its own “weight.
— TheKeyAuthor
Rather to my surprise, I found myself genuinely indignant at the suggestion that murder was to be reintroduced as a means of political advancement for the first time since the Tudors, and even more indignant that the legal and political establishments in all their forms - which included, at that stage, the police - were going to cover up the whole episode. In the event, it turned out that my anxieties were unfounded, as Thorpe was totally innocent of all charges brought against him.
— Auberon Waugh
It's not time to worry yet
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
— Benjamin Franklin
If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.
— Dalai Lama XIV
If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were?
— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
— Dan Zadra
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.
— Mark Twain
Drag your thoughts awayfrom your troubles...by the ears, by the heels,or any other way you can manage it.
— Mark Twain
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.
— Śāntideva
Life is in Fate's hands now. You made your choice to stay... it's too late to change that, so stop agonizing over it.... You're making my scales itch.Saphira, from "Eragon
— Christopher Paolini, Eragon
If there is no solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it. If there is a solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it.
— Dalai Lama XIV
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
— Leo Buscaglia
We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.
— H.A. Ironside
It makes me . . . anxious . . . to be away from you.
— Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
Worry is most often a prideful way of thinking that you have more control over life and its circumstances than you actually do.
— June Hunt
Worry divides the mind.
— Max Lucado, Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear
worrying gets you nowhere
— Trinity, The Naked Traveler 3
She tried to worry that something terrible had happened to him, but didn't believe it for a moment. Nothing terrible ever happened to him, though she was beginning to think that it was time it damn well did. If nothing terrible happened to him soon maybe she'd do it herself. Now there was an idea.
— Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
You worry too much. Eat some bacon...what? No, I got no idea if it'll make you feel better, I just made too much bacon.
— Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says
Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.
— Thomas Carlyle
If I'd thought she was uninterested, I never would have worried so much - the prospect of screwing something up is much more daunting than that of screwing nothing up. I definitely thought there was something there, and so there was something to lose, you see.
— Adam Levin, The Instructions
If I was a worrier I'd worry, but not being a worrier I'm just sort of confused and pissed off.
— Mykle Hansen, HELP!  A Bear is Eating Me!
When 1:45 came, half the class left, and Danny Hupfer whispered, "If she gives you a cream puff after we leave, I'm going to kill you" - which was not something that someone headed off to prepare for his bar mitzvah should be thinking.When 1:55 came and the other half of the class left, Meryl Lee whispered, "If she gives you one after we leave, I'm going to do Number 408 to you." I didn't remember what Number 408 was, but it was probably pretty close to what Danny Hupfer had promised.Even Mai Thi looked at me with narrowed eyes and said, "I know your home." Which sounded pretty ominous.
— Gary D. Schmidt, The Wednesday Wars
It would be so nice to be wanted by someone with the courage to get his hat or stay as he damn pleased, and who gave her credit for the same. Someone who didn't worry about her.
— Thomas Harris, Red Dragon
Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.
— Libba Bray, The Diviners
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened
— Winston S. Churchill
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
— Keith Caserta, Soul Searching
You’re worried about what-ifs. Well, what if you stopped worrying?
— Shannon Celebi, Driving Off Bridges
For most of my life I've been a listener. At least in the beginning, I think the reason I listened so intently was to have a chance of hearing the train before it ran over me.
— Steve Rasnic Tem
Why are we worried!" Rolf said suddenly. "This is God's work. He'll make a way for us.
— Brother Andrew, God's Smuggler
Worry was my mother's mechanic, her mechanism for engaging with the machinery of living. Worry was an anchor for her, a hook, something to clutch on to in the world. Worry was a box to live inside of, worry a mechanism for evading the present, for re-creating the past, for dealing with the future.
— Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Roger. Be Safe. We'll be there when we can, over.
— Kalee Thompson, Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History
Worrying was painful .... but compared to the alternative, a privilege
— Laura Moriarty, The Rest of Her Life
Worry in the dark can make it even darker.
— Camron Wright, The Rent Collector
Worry is like a squatter: it sneaks in and tries to stay without paying rent! Serve it eviction papers"! HS/el
— Evinda Lepins, Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power A Cup of Encouragement for the Day
It wasn't that the Gospel proved useful for my many worries but that the Gospel proved the uselessness of my worries and so refocused my whole attention.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen, Here and Now: Living in the Spirit
Worry is like a rocking-chair. It gives you something to do buy gets you nowhere.
— Wayne Bennett
I wanted to get away,' said she; 'everybody wants to plague and worry me about nothing. They'll be all right tomorrow. What's worrying them?''They are sacrificing to our Canadian God,' said Solly. 'We all believe that if we fret and abuse ourselves sufficiently, Providence will take pity and smile upon anything we attempt. A light heart, or a consciousness of desert, attracts ill luck. You have been away from your native land too long. You have forgotten our folkways. Listen to that gang over there; they are scanning the heavens and hoping aloud that it won't rain tomorrow. That is to placate the Mean Old Man in the Sky, and persuade him to be kind to us.
— Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost
But if that was going to happen, it was going to happen whether or not he worried about it.
— N.D. Wilson, 100 Cupboards
Many of us have been taught to show caring by worrying about the other person, which doesn't truly create closeness because it prompts her to prove that everything is okay with her to ease your discomfort. In addition, we may try to show caring through advising or attempting to fix the other person's problems, which doesn't work for creating closeness because it places you in a superior position, the one who can fix things, seeding resentment in the other person.
— Kira Asatryan, Stop Being Lonely: Three Simple Steps to Developing Close Friendships and Deep Relationships
Claire's face looking pretty and serene, as if she were gifted with a madness that left her ignorant of worry.
— R.J.  Lawrence, The Xactilias Project
Why Worry?If its better when simpler.
— Mahrukh
Don’t be worried about the future. Live this moment so totally that the next moment comes out of it golden.
— Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, When the Shoe Fits: Stories of the Taoist Mystic Chuang Tzu
This is the problem about thinking about something else to take your mind off something. It works for a little while, but in the end you always come back to the thing you were trying not to think about, only now whatever it was is worse.
— Marcelo Figueras, Kamchatka
I should have learned mindfulness, and it’s too late now because it’s no good learning it when you’re already in crisis: you have to start when things are good. But only the very, very oddest would think, Hey, my life is perfect. I know! I’ll sit and waste twenty minutes Observing My Thoughts without Judgement.
— Marian Keyes, The Break
Perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.
— Justin Cronin, The Passage
My friend, stay positive! It is really good to always stay positive. You don’t really give a damn to negative people, circumstances and things! You only learn lessons from them that can help you take precautions to always stay positive for positive footprints!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Worry leads to worry.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
My mother had a philosophy that guided her through many a rough time. 'Only worry when you can do something about it--whatever it is. Then it's not worry, it's thinking things through, trying to decide what's best. When there's nothing you can do, it's just plain worry, and it's pointless and self-destructive.
— Jeanne M. Dams
What worried him worst at the moment - for it is often little things that are hardest to stand - was that his lip was bleeding where they had hit him and he couldn't wipe the little trickle of blood away although it tickled him.
— C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle
It's never too soon to worry. Worry spurs preparation.
— Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
You worry too much." "Because you worry not enough.
— A.E.  Kirk, Midnight Poison
Worry is a progressive disease that ruins one’s life
— Sunday Adelaja
The house was safe again, although a little bit more untidy, but at least Vluffy didn’t have to worry about big nasty two headed roaches chasing him down the hall anymore.
— Christina Engela, Innocent Minds
When I really worry about something, I don´t just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don´t go. I´m too worried to go. I don´t want to interrupt my worrying to go.
— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Smoking does not make one ill, but worrying makes. Drinking two pegs in the evening would not make you ill, but sleeping with tensions and worries would definitely do that.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
As we review our worries, we should make it a habit each day to God, "what is it I should focus on today"?
— Eddie  Capparucci
Worrying about something you can't control has less benefit than a mosquito's existence.
— Mark Cortes
Try not to worry, for time is a great healer.' Such words were futile.
— Catherine Cookson, The Black Candle
If you have clutter in your real life, your tangible life, then it really adds to the emotional clutter in your mind.
— Giuliana Rancic, I Do, Now What?: Secrets, Stories, and Advice from a Madly-in-Love Couple
A good antidote to the reasons why you worry is never to worry about the reasons why you worry, for the reasons why you worry will always make you worry about the reasons why you worry
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Worrying about something you can’t control has less benefit than a mosquito.
— Mark Cortes
I love that you're worried,' she says, 'but you're worried about all the wrong things.
— Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here
It all scares me, and it's all like clothes in a dryer that just keep rolling around in my head from one day to the next.
— Patrick Carman, Skeleton Creek
His childhood passed in quiet anxiety.
— Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith
I have decided the two choices open to me are (1) to torment myself or (2) to trust the Lord. There is no earthly solution to the problems that confront me. But I can add to my problems, as I believe I have done, by dwelling on them. So, no more of that.
— Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
Worry’s magnetic attraction can only be broken by a stronger attraction, and David is saying [in Psalm 27] we can only find that attraction in God Himself.
— Edward T. Welch, Running Scared: Fear, Worry, and the God of Rest
Yeah, I worry what will happen when we stop running. When we go back to school. When she meets other boys. Boys who don’t argue and snap at her. Boys who don’t obsessively worry about her. Boys that could take her to a movie and stay right until the end, not have to leave halfway through because he started turning into a wolf. But she wouldn’t pick up some random guy in the mall. Ever.So why was I over-reacting? I don’t know. I saw the guy and something ignited in my brain, a flash-fire that burned away reason and common sense. If Simon hadn’t stopped me, I’d have made an idiot of myself and called attention to us. Worse, I’d have embarrassed Chloe. I was over-protective enough as it was. Frothing at the mouth because a guy talked to her? Really not going help us get to that next anniversary.
— Kelley Armstrong, Belonging
Worry is a habit that shatters our peace of mind and needlessly drains our energy, a form of mental masturbation without any benefits.
— Sue Patton Thoele, The Courage to Be a Stepmom: Finding Your Place Without Losing Yourself
We ask ourselves: have we made progress? We are almost never aware of it. Only with effort and discipline do we become fully conscious. If we keep a journal, now and then we are startled when we peruse past entries. Worries, fears, preoccupations of the previous year seem to have evanesced. The greatest terrors and strongest urgencies of five years ago now surprise, embarrass, or encourage us. Was this me? Why was it that I could not gauge it as it was lived?
— John F. Kavanaugh
That little glow of comfort lasted me right through the evening but was gone when I woke up next morning. Wakings are the worst times--almost before my eyes are open a great weight seems to roll on to my heart.
— Dodie Smith
You’re not responsible for everything. Your brother is an adult. So are Winnifred and Poppy. They agreed with your decision, didn’t they?” “Yes, but Leo wasn’t in his right mind. He still isn’t. And Win is frail, and—” “You like to blame yourself, don’t you? Come walk with me.” She set her empty wine cup at the corner of the stall, feeling light-headed. The second cup of wine had been a mistake. And going anywhere with Rohan, with night deepening and revelry all around them, would be yet another. But as she looked into his hazel eyes, she felt absurdly reckless. Just a few stolen minutes … she couldn’t resist the lawless mischief of his smile. “My family will worry if I don’t rejoin them soon.” “They know you’re with me.” “That’s why they’ll worry,” she said, making him laugh.
— Lisa Kleypas, Mine Till Midnight
Are you worried? Jesus says there is nothing to worry about. It isn’t our kingdom, it’s God’s. We take our cue from the King, and the King is not fretting over anything. He is in complete control.
— Edward T. Welch, Running Scared: Fear, Worry, and the God of Rest
The thing about Americans,” she said, “is that you’re very concerned about everything all the time.
— Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club
Planning is worrying based on facts
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
What if she told him how she felt, and he didn’t feel the same? She could lose him forever.
— Michelle Madow, Diamonds are Forever
Couples with children may argue more, the author suggests, because children are a reminder of just how crucial our choices are.
— Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
One sure way to kill a dream, is to suffocate it with worry.
— TemitOpe Ibrahim
Death kills us once
—  worry kills us every day.
What we fear too much we often bring to pass.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Apocalypse
It ain't time to worry yet. I'll let you know when.
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
...above all, do not fret until you know that you really have a cause for it.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
You can go from seeking to seeker when you stop bouncing. Set a plan for change and take the risks you need to take without worrying about failing.
— Andrea Goeglein
This is the story of my life: standing on the edges of things and worrying, when I'm supposed to just walk through them.
— Alexis  Hall, Waiting for the Flood
Stop caring what people think about you. People will always have their opinions. Don't worry about it. What you think about you (and what God thinks about you) is all that matters. You can never please everyone, so stop trying so hard to please people.
— Lisa Bedrick, To Christian Women
Worry never climbed a hillWorry never paid a billWorry never dried a tearWorry never calmed a fearWorry never darned a heelWorry never cooked a mealWorry never led a horse to waterWorry never done a thing you'd think it oughta.
— Jo Petty, Apples of Gold
It's easy for you people here; you live a safe, purposeless life, nothing to do, nothing to worry about.
— Philip K. Dick
According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Stop worrying. There is no point to worrying, unless you are actually coming up with a game plan to tackle something. If you are worrying for no reason, stop. Let go and let God. Don't try to control things that you really aren't able to control anyways.
— Lisa Bedrick, Hard Times
Regulate your mind. Do not worry excessively about the future. If you have done everything that has to be done, the future will take care of itself.
— Choa Kok Sui, Compassionate Objectivity - The Golden Lotus Sutras on Character Building
Express [yourself] without worrying what everyone else will think. Those people are your limits. Ignore them.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
The way to overcome fear is simply to do what is right.
— Choa Kok Sui, Compassionate Objectivity - The Golden Lotus Sutras on Character Building
The religious worry about life after death at the expense of life before death.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent." - Chinese Proverb
— Anonymous
He had only one thing to do and that was what he should think about and he must think it out clearly and take everything as it came along, and not worry. To worry was a bad as to be afraid. It simply made things more difficult.
— Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
What are you worrying about? You are born to die anyway.
— Saurbh Katyal, Seduced by Murder
I owe my last breath to death but not one breath more.
— Marty Rubin
Frankly, I even worried about the fact that I was so worried. Worrying about the strength of my faith—how it stood up to others'—didn’t seem to be a healthy sign. I mean, didn't worrying about faith defeat the whole point of faith? Weren't we supposed to just "let go and let God"? I didn't "let go and let God" very well. I worried about that.
— Michelle DeRusha, Spiritual Misfit: A Memoir of Uneasy Faith
Why is it, that no matter how busy we are, we still find time to worry?
— P.K. Shaw
Sometimes it's easier not to think about things you can't do anything about.
— Mahbod Seraji, Rooftops of Tehran
There’s very little that worrying can do to help our situations. Worrying is like running on a treadmill…it gives us an opportunity to sweat but gets us absolutely nowhere. Worrying skews our reality, suppresses the immune system, promotes coronary disease, and plagues us with digestive problems. It’s clear…when the soul is heavy the body feels the weight. Do yourself a favor. Lighten up. Take a deep breath, clear your mind and focus your energy on the things you can change rather than on the things you can’t. Worry is the enemy of optimism and personal progress.progress.
— Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence
Folks say I've never been quite right since - but they only say that because I'm a poet, and because nothing ever worries me. Poets are so rare in Blair Water folks don't understand them, and most people worry so much, they think you're not right if you don't worry.
— L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon
Batman: What have I told you about trusting dangerous and obsessive criminal geniuses?Wonder Woman: To be fair, you tend to warn everyone about everything.Batman: Point.
— Landry Q. Walker, Batman: Brave and the Bold - Emerald Knight
Worry is the enemy of optimism and personal progress. ~Jason Versey
— Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence
Faith or Worry. Pick one, because you can't have both.
— Amanda Penland
Well, maybe I just want to know the future so I can prepare myself for what's coming. If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise, said the seer. If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
She would have given up every Gathering from now until she went to join StarClan, if only she could have been sure that her sister was safe.
— Erin Hunter, Midnight
There’s very little that worrying can do to help our situations. Worrying is like running on a treadmill…it gives us an opportunity to sweat but gets us absolutely nowhere. Worrying skews our reality, suppresses the immune system, promotes coronary disease, and plagues us with digestive problems. It’s clear…when the soul is heavy the body feels the weight. Do yourself a favor. Lighten up. Take a deep breath, clear your mind and focus your energy on the things you can change rather than on the things you can’t. Worry is the enemy of optimism and personal progress. ~Jason Versey
— Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence
Worry is blind, and cannot discern the future; but Jesus sees the end from the beginning.
— Ellen G. White
I fight with you because i care. Now, when i stop fighting with you, thats when you should really start worrying.
— Katelyn Lillis
Worrying is a full-time job -- I wish it paid better!
— Joseph Ohler, Jr.
It is not work that kills men
—  it is worry. Work is healthy
I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness, nor feel the weight of any misery, before it actually arrives.
— Spectator no. 7
Its not workload that kills you, its worry that kills you.
— Vijay Dhameliya
I’ve got to stop this. Stop worrying about the why. Stop forcing what was happening into the realm of impossible. Stop hiding behind excuses. Stop being afraid to step out on faith.
— Deatri King-Bey, The Impossible Possible
Wake up! Wake up! Soon the person you believe you are will die - so now, wake up and be content with this knowledge: there is no need to search; achievement leads to nowhere. It makes no difference at all, so just be happy now! Love is the only reality of the world, because it is all ONE, you see. And the only laws are paradox, humor, and change. There is no problem, never was, and never will be. Release your struggle, let go of your mind, throw away your concerns, and relax into the world. No need to resist life; just do your best. Open your eyes and see that you are for more than you imagine. you are the world, you are the universe; you are yourself and everyone else too! It's all the marvelous Play of God. Wake up, regain your humor. Don't worry, just be happy. You are already free!
— Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
I have a mastery of the art of worrying that is a burden to me if I may not use it. --Robin
— Robin McKinley, The Outlaws of Sherwood
Life becomes so unfair when you don't get what others do. But don't worry, God has decided something better for you.
— Vj Nadar
Worrying is a waste of time. It doesn't change anything. It messes with your mind and steals your happiness.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Civilization is held together by duct tape and spit, and I'm worried about the duct tape.
— Jacqueline Patricks