Quotes About Apprehension

Prepare yourself for something dreadful.

Though always objecting to every marriage that was arranged, he never suffered beforehand from the apprehension of any; it seemed as if he could not think so ill of any two persons' understanding as to suppose they meant to marry till it were proved against them.

Such extreme and perpetual cautiousness of word and manner, such a dread of giving a distinct idea about any body, is apt to suggest suspicions of there being something to conceal.

His pager beeped, and he looked at the readout. "I have to get back to Deal. Do you have any secret weapons in your arsenal? You want to make any last-ditch efforts at apprehension?" Ugh. He was so smug! "I hate you," I said. "No, you don't," Ranger said, kissing me lightly on the lips. "Why did you agree to meet me?" Our eyes locked for a moment. And then he cuffed me. Both hands behind my back.

You're scared now, I can smell it... Benito Ramirez

What do you have?" "A real bad feeling.

I was always frightened by taverns. They just seemed like very unpleasant places to go.

Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always mentally preparing for doom. They are just born worriers, their brains forever anticipating the dropping of some dreaded other shoe.

Greater is our terror of the unknown.

He was afraid of certainty.

I felt most awfully braced. I felt as if the clouds had rolled away and all was as it used to be. I felt like one of those chappies in the novels who calls off the fight with his wife in the last chapter and decides to forget and forgive. I felt I wanted to do all sorts of other things to show Jeeves that I appreciated him.

Miss Highsmith is the poet of apprehension rather than fear. Fear after a time, as we all learned in the blitz, is narcotic, it can lull one by fatigue into sleep, but apprehension nags at the nerves gently and inescapably. We have to learn to live with it.

Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.

Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus, Sinskey thought. And that's fear.

Something was very, very wrong.

On the back of the Trike, Langdon looked ahead and immediately shared her apprehension.

Thus fear of danger is often thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about;

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

Uncertainly always creates doubt, and doubt creates fear.

He'd lived for so long on a constant edge of anxiety that he'd almost forgotten what real fear was.

They are frightened of the air.

What are you so afraid oft Fezzik raised his great head and managed to look at them. Getting water up my nose, he whispered. I hate it so much. And then he buried his head again.

No, I suppose not. Tell me, Jake, have the authorities apprehended this Monsieur Eriq LeVisqueux fellow?" "Not yet." "Good, good," Mrs. Malvolio muttered to herself. "Excuse me?" said Grace. "I was just remarking that it's good that you three look so good.

Where is he?" Bell asked. "Do you think something might have happened to him?" Walter asked anxiously. "Latimer? Or maybe...