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Quotes About Apprehensiveness

All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was. No, said the old man, that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.
~ Douglas Adams
Honest. I know. But all the same... woo! It was a head-back, beaming, yelping shout of joyful excitement, spontaneous and startling, and every face turned; their apprehensiveness faded for a moment, and even Merriman, stern for the first instant, laughed aloud. Yes! he said. We need that as much as the sword, Barney.
~ Susan Cooper
A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.
~ Elsie Clews Parsons