The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun. — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
“Introverts rather die than volunteer to give a speech in public.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension. — William Gerhardie Copy Share Image
“Panic and terror aren't the only kinds of fear. There are deeper kinds, more terrible kinds. Apprehension and heavy, heavy dread.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger. — Lucan Copy Share Image
Realisation is the motif of garnered apprehension .. the sooner you get there the better .. and the sooner you trip out the best ! — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
With what dread and apprehension we entrust important jobs into the hands of others. Imagine the love of a needless God who… — Calvin Miller Copy Share Image
He who keeps his heart near God will find peace and tranquility, whilst he who gives his heart to the people will… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be… — Eric Linklater Copy Share Image
Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then… — Peter Hook Copy Share Image
Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
“A person can hurry through or sleep walk through life, but whenever they stop to catch their breath or awaken from a… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Two things are terrible in childhood: helplessness (being in other people's power) and apprehension - the apprehension that something is being concealed… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
But Margaret was at an age when any apprehension, not absolutely based on a knowledge of facts, is easily banished for a… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Psychologists usually offer three explanations for the failure of group brainstorming. The first is social loafing: in a group, some individuals tend… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Abraham Zogoiby covered his face that night in August 1939 because he had been assailed by fear, [...] a sudden apprehension that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Perhaps if there were more of that intense distress for souls that leads to tears, we should more frequently see the results… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men of superior vivacity and wit, when they take a wrong turn, are generally worse than other men: because wit, consisting in… — Jeremiah Seed Copy Share Image
There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement. — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
The regulation of commerce, it is true, is a new power; but that seems to be an addition which few oppose and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present? — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit… — A. M. Rosenthal Copy Share Image
He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions. — Robert South Copy Share Image