Quotes About Apprehension

Ich habe Angst vor dieser Erscheinung, aber wenn man viel trinkt, dann geht das schon wieder weg.

The men look at Aunt Mia the way I might look at a hot fudge sundae in the hours between lunch and dinner. You know, when you're not sure if it's a good idea to go ahead -- you're interested beyond a shadow of a doubt, but you wonder if it might turn out to be a little too much for you. Men seem to realize that Aunt Mia's already making the most of herself.

The doctor arrived towards dinnertime and said, of course, that although recurring phenomena might well elicit apprehension, nonetheless there was, strictly speaking, no positive indication, yet since neither was there any contraindication, it might, on the one hand, be supposed, but on the other hand it might also be supposed. And it was therefore necessary to stay in bed, and although I don't like prescribing, nevertheless take this and stay in bed.

To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.

pressed up against the rear wall, half hidden by shirts and dresses dangling from hangers, was a tall, thin girl with wide, terrified eyes. Her hands were wrapped around the muzzle of a small, wildly squirming dog.

His vision of the future, already shadowed by anxiety, had just grown several shades darker.

There's an old goblin saying; there is nothing to fear but fear itself and scary things.

Qibli was expecting Turtle to do something, and Turtle had a bad feeling that "something" wasn't "Turtle flying all the way back to the Kingdom of the Sea, finding a deep trench, and staying there forever.

Aha," Rollan said. "I knew that boll weevil in my soup last night looked suspicious.

We are always prepared to defend ourselves, because we all live with the fear and paranoia that other people don't like us.

If thou art terrible to manyh, then beware of many.

If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first; name later.

an ugly premonition

Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.

O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? O, no! the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse: Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more Than when he bites, but lanceth not the sore.

Oh, God! I have an ill-divining soul!

Best safety lies in fear.

Only look up clear: To alter favour, ever is to fear.

While Grandma Welker didn't come right out and accuse Katie of being a witch, or something worse, it was easy to see that she wasn't comfortable around her.

Then talk to Hastings." Leesha flinched. "He's so scary, you know?

Okay, I'm guessing you're gonna give us the bad news first because there's no good news?

He then fell into the state of apprehension and despondency usual to writers as they wait for a verdict on their work.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

That is how it will be—not pain itself, but the constant apprehension of pain; the constant apprehension of fault, the knowledge that you are going to be punished for something you couldn't help and didn't even know was wrong; and the discord in Hell will be constant, repeating