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Quotes About Trepidation

The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
~ Gary Numan
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
~ Stephen King
The thing I fear most is fear.
~ Michel de Montaigne
approaches him with some trepidation.
~ Bryce Courtenay
Leaders of Israel, bring forth your clan heads from all the twelve tribes!" The twelve clan leaders stepped forward with trepidation. They knew this could not be good. "Hear O Israel, Yahweh our God is a holy God! And these leaders of the clans have not exercised their authority in honor of Yahweh's holiness! They have allowed Ba'al worship to thrive amidst their tribes!" The twelve clan leaders looked at one another in fear.
~ Brian Godawa
I went to the meeting with some trepidation for, although I might have met a wizard before, I had never encountered an Irishman.
~ Iain Pears
My heart was fluttering madly as if I was in the presence of a new lover, of whom I was uncertain.
~ Storm Constantine
vaciló, porque con los nervios se le
~ Isabel Allende
Everybody's afraid of something.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Sometimes fear of a thing is worse than the thing itself.
~ Susan Meissner
Carlos was getting jumpy and losing some of his composure.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
but my biggest worry was that he would
~ Chris Bohjalian
Pretty much everything I've written is a mix of excitement and fear.
~ Marlon James
Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).
~ Georges Bataille
Fear breeds fear.
~ Byron Janis
Worry is a form of fear.
~ Bertrand A. Russell
The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.
~ Marie Bashkirtseff
Cold? Nervous?
~ Jaci Burton
You're afraid of me.
~ Jaci Burton
I can't help it. You scare me.
~ Jaci Burton
I always say that characters must drive plots, never the reverse. Writing about large-scale events creates the risk that the scope of the events themselves can overwhelm the characters. I emphatically do not want that. That was the only trepidation I felt when I started 'The Twilight War.'
~ Paul S. Kemp
We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.
~ Bernard Kouchner
'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace, ' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war!
~ Harriet Tubman
Evil is a terrorist, nursed on every spoonful of worry, encouraged with every glance of trepidation, fortified with every concession we make from our lives to acknowledge its threat
~ Tzvi Freeman