Apprehensions Quotes

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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because… — Baron de Montesquieu
But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present? — Arundhati Roy
To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to… — Thomas Browne
Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to astonish themselves with… — Joseph Addison
When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads,… — John Dryden
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be… — Horace
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
Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today we seek what tomorrow we shun, today we desire what tomorrow we fear, nay, even tremble at… — Daniel Defoe
Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or story, and find… — John Barth
... we are so full of apprehensions, fears, that we don't know exactly to what it points... a great change of our psychoglocal attitude is… — Carl Jung
Wink and shut their apprehensions up. — John Marston
It is notoriously true that the public mind is seriously agitated with apprehensions of negroes insurrections and that it is becoming more and more so. — Thomas L. Smith
For the limits to which our thoughts are confind, are small in respect of the vast extent of Nature itself; some parts of it are… — Robert Hooke

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