Quotes About Apprehension

La desazón es un instinto y un modo de advertencia.

We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity as though America and gravity weren't there until Columbus and Newton got wind of them.

And in short, I was afraid.

Thus went my first Court Day. I think I'm going to puke.

Lo único cierto era el peso en la boca del estómago la sospecha física de que algo no andaba bien, de que casi nunca había andando bien.

I feel intimidated by fashion.

I'm generally intimidated by adults.

Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

The only thing we have to fear is the FEAR itself.

What if everybody is frightened, and nobody has the answers?

a thought intruded itself into my brain, unmistakably from without. From the device. From the Grentl. "WE ARE COMING.

Don't you understand that this is serious?" she screamed. "Anna is missing!

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

I looked at the place with my heart beating as I had known it to do in the dentist's parlor.

There was something deep within him that he had absolutely shown to no one—to the companion of these walks in particular not a bit more than he could help; but he was none the less haunted, under its shadow, with a dire apprehension of its publicity.

Reality outran apprehension; Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck.

Ignorance is the parent of fear, and being completely nonplussed and confounded about the stranger, I confess I was now as much afraid of him as if it was the devil himself who had thus broken into my room at the dead of night. In fact, I was so afraid of him that I was not game enough just then to address him, and demand a satisfactory answer concerning what seemed inexplicable in him.

Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people. The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.

Actually, I have this random fear, and it's of bees and wasps. Bees and wasps actually scare me just a little bit. I'd rather have a snake or a crocodile, yes... I appreciate them, and I love them, but I have a slight fear.

I think possibly, as an artist, you're always treated with a certain respect but also with a certain sort of nervousness.

I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.

Nearly everybody, when they first meet me, seems to have this sense of trepidation.

The limits that we see are actually the negative thoughts of apprehension, anxiety and uncertainty that we have burdened with ourselves.

As McChrystal took the lay of the land, "I felt like we were high-school students who had wandered into a Mafia-owned bar."34