Apprehensions Quotes

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I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired… — Donald Cargill
Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the… — Alexander Pope
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security. — Edmund Burke
Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
She had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions; she was fully satisfied of being still quite as handsome… — Elisabeth Elliot
Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond his control. His… — Carl Jung
The regulation of commerce, it is true, is a new power; but that seems to be an addition which few oppose and from which no… — James Madison
Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but not even the… — Norman Mailer
I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer. — Robert Boyle
How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child! — Samuel Griswold Goodrich
Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the… — Joan Didion
The chief evil with relation to the body is love for the body and pitying it. This takes away all the soul's authority over the… — Theophan the Recluse
Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in… — Allen Ginsberg
But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did they render unsound the negotiated purchases… — Warren Buffett
He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions. — Robert South
A large portion of our citizens, who will not believe, even on the evidence of facts, that any public evils exist, or are impending. They… — Fisher Ames
We have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but… — Warren Buffett
This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions; these are… — William Shakespeare
Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child. — Thomas Traherne
I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of men, and inclined… — Thomas Jefferson

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