Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We are advancing, we are responding, we are having major apprehensions of the most wanted, most dangerous criminals, overall, we continue to… — Enrique Pena Nieto Copy Share Image
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character. — James Bridie Copy Share Image
To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehension of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of… — Warren Buffett 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
Reincarnation is an apprehension of a movement and the movement occurs in time. Without time, there is no reincarnation. Reincarnation is a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I never had any apprehensions while shooting for intimate scenes, we are all actors. The only apprehension would be about who are… — Sayani Gupta Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or… — John Barth Copy Share Image
There is no instrument for measuring the pressure of the Ether, which is probably millions of times greater: it is altogether too… — Oliver Lodge Copy Share Image
I think there's just a lot of apprehension in Australia about the Trump victory. It's not that there are - some people… — Richard Glover Copy Share Image
“When we start raising different inconsistent truths, life may tip into bewilderment and the brain may go haywire. The confrontation between what… — Erik Pevernagie 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
The average American of today is intellectually so far removed from his forbears that instead of regarding government with apprehension, he is… — George Reisman 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
As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-'teleological… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If we decide rightly what to do, or use a correct procedure for making such decisions, that has to be because the… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
We often hear the teachers of all creeds lamenting the difficulty of keeping up in the minds of believers a lively apprehension… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension;… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
The nations slithered over the brink into the boiling cauldron of war without any trace of apprehension or dismay... The nations backed… — David Lloyd George 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
Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for an increase are at… — Thorstein Veblen 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
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
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
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
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
How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent… — Samuel Griswold Goodrich Copy Share Image
The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need… — Roland Allen 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
Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
In Waziristan people get really upset when there are no drone attacks. Their apprehension is that the US and Pakistani government might… — Pervez Hoodbhoy Copy Share Image
I do not think that my spiritual apprehensions are as dogmatically cultural as those of many people who have been brought up… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
