A Quote by Christopher Paolini

...even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.

Christopher Paolini

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Concerns Equal Even Grew Importance Kings Seemed Smallest Starlings Until Worries

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Christopher Paolini
American - Author
Born: November 17, 1983

Since I didn't grow up going to school dances, etc., I didn't have the normal . . . I grew up in a very different way so a lot of the childish concerns or teenage concerns weren't my concerns. My concerns were survival.

Rose McGowan

What I know concerns me. What I don't know concerns me even more. What people aren't telling me worries me the most.

Robert M. Gates

Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth - these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God.

Guru Nanak

There is no greater fortune than having few concerns, no greater misfortune than having many worries. Only those who have suffered over their concerns know the blessing of having few concerns. Only those who have calmed their minds know the misfortune of having many worries.

Zicheng Hong

The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human being

Ingrid Newkirk

If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition.

Charles Caleb Colton

Even the smallest light can grow until there’s no darkness left.

Gena Showalter

A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband, while a man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

Charles M. Schwab

Where you find all the worries about immigration, I think the way to handle that is to listen to the person that's got concerns, and then try to move that in a positive direction, as opposed to decrying it and saying, 'Don't even raise that, you can't raise that.'

Preston Manning

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have.

Richard Bach

I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved.

Francine Mathews

Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide, while the many natures who at present pursue either one exclusively are forcibly prevented from doing so, cities will have no rest from evils,... nor, I think, will the human race.