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Quotes About Apprehension

what's the matter?" "I'm not ready
~ Lisa Scottoline
It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.
~ Lois Lowry
Frightened meant that deep, sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen.
~ Lois Lowry
and we have been told that they may come tonight
~ Lois Lowry
WAS ALMOST December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened. No. Wrong word, Jonas thought. Frightened meant that deep, sickening feeling of something terrible
~ Lois Lowry
the trembling reached into Bree's heart. Her hands started to shake.
~ Lois Walfrid Johnson
foolish,' even though I didn't want to touch
~ Louis de Bernieres
But I am afraid I don't
~ Louisa May Alcott
He was a bad thing waiting for a worse thing to happen.
~ Louise Erdrich
Somewhat paranoid to begin with, he assumed every tradesman was an extortion artist
~ Ron Chernow
Tengo miedo de una cosa que vive y que no se ve. Tengo miedo a la desgracia traidora que viene, y que nunca se sabe dónde viene. Adrianie, donde estas.
~ Rosalia de Castro
Many terrible things begin with B: blindness, boilers, bats, bridges, and brain tumors. But no one brings any of those to a party to up the fun quotient. When I look at a balloon, all I see is an imminent explosion. Where's the fun in that?
~ Roz Chast
camel here is frightened by bad dreams in the
~ Rudyard Kipling
It's the cold fish dying in your stomach feeling. You try to forget about it, but as soon as you do, the fish starts flopping around under your heart and reminds you that something truly horrible is happening.
~ Ruth Ozeki
In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'
~ Noam Chomsky
Stressed by any other name is fear.
~ Shannon L. Alder
People think I should be a success, but I'm afraid of it.
~ Michael Reagan
In those times panics were common
~ Alexandre Dumas
What you hope for, you also fear.
~ Alice Walker
It is not often that the real world conjures worse than what we can imagine.
~ Alison Goodman
In the morning, she woke early. It was as if a pall lay over her. She turned on her back, lying rigid, expecting to hear at any moment the sound of the King's guard coming for her. Mother Lowe bustled in at seven
~ Alison Weir
O God! what a thing it is to be a ghost, cowering and shivering in an altered world, a prey to apprehension and despair!
~ Ambrose Bierce
A dread filled me, a dread unlike any I had ever felt. Not the terror of God, or his angels, but the sickly fear of man.
~ Aminatta Forna
Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.
~ William Shakespeare