Apprehension Quotes

168 quotes by 147 authors

Get the heat and emotion out worry, and put cold, ruthless scrutiny onto the problem, and worry loses its power. When we are worried and… — Norman Vincent Peale
Fear can infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of apprehension in all our thinking. To counteract it, let faith,… — Norman Vincent Peale
The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world… — Winston Churchill
As image and apprehension are in organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul. — C.S. Lewis
Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living that they are… — William Hazlitt
Ambassador Mulford has made wide-ranging intervention in the internal affairs of India. To say the least, it is very unfortunate. It confirms our earlier apprehension… — Bill Vaughan
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do… — William Hazlitt
It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up… — Peter Hook
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
If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which… — Maimonides
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension… — Isaac Newton
As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes… — Solomon Ortiz
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen. — Pliny the Elder
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence. — Herbert Read
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in… — William Shakespeare
The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of… — Lewis Thomas
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. — Alfred North Whitehead
I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had won me approval… — Joan Didion
and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage — Virginia Woolf
Faith is indeed intellectual; it involves an apprehension of certain things as facts; and vain is the modern effort to divorce faith from knowledge. But… — John Gresham Machen

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