Apprehension Quotes

and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage

— Virginia Woolf

It is beyond my apprehension.

— Danny Ozark

I have no apprehension over cutting my hair.

— Mithila Palkar

“Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim.”

— Davis Bunn

The sense of death is most in apprehension.

— William Shakespeare

Thought is just an apprehension of touch.

— Gary Snyder

I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

— Charles Darwin

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

— William Shenstone

Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it.

— Lawrence Durrell

What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.

— Karl Barth

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.

— Guy de Maupassant

Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun.

— Alfred Bester

Direct the glance of apprehension & inquiry to pure consciousness, in its own absolute Being.

— Edmund Husserl

The apprehension whether people will like it or not also doesn't bother me much. I've always done my work with a gut…

— Kiku Sharda

Fear can infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of apprehension in all our thinking. To counteract…

— Norman Vincent Peale

I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking.

— Benjamin Franklin

Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today we seek what tomorrow we shun, today we desire what tomorrow we fear, nay,…

— Daniel Defoe

[John] Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a…

— Robert Hewison

He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions.

— Robert South

The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang…

— William Shakespeare

“When you surrender to apprehension, or worry, or nerves, you effectively place a filter over your senses and are no longer able…

— Martin Lindstrom

I began to discriminate between fear and excitement. The two, though very close, are completely different. Fear is negative excitement, choking your…

— Twyla Tharp

The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being…

— Michel de Montaigne

We recognize that same-sex marriage makes some people deeply uncomfortable. However, inertia and apprehension are not legitimate bases for denying same-sex couples…

— Henry Franklin Floyd

The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct…

— Marshall McLuhan

From the social cognitive perspective, it is mainly perceived inefficacy to cope with potentially aversive events that makes them fearsome. To the…

— Albert Bandura

Were a man's sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life, it would generally be found that he had…

— Joseph Addison

The intellectual power is never at rest; it is never satisfied with any comprehended truth, but ever proceeds on and on towards…

— Giordano Bruno

A large portion of our citizens, who will not believe, even on the evidence of facts, that any public evils exist, or…

— Fisher Ames

Dirt's a funny thing,' the Boss said. 'Come to think of it, there ain't a thing but dirt on this green God's…

— Robert Penn Warren

I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging…

— William Shakespeare

I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of…

— Thomas Jefferson

We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution. Our aim…

— Felix Dzerzhinsky

When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers…

— John Dryden

Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living…

— William Hazlitt

Many, and I think the determining, constitutive facts remain outside the reach of the operational concept. And by virtue of this limitation…

— Herbert Marcuse

Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.

— Hannah More

The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.

— William Shakespeare