Quotes About Apprehension

Fear scared her.

I'm such a scaredy cat.

I'm actually quite a scaredy cat, myself.

I'm Chicken Little and always imagine the worse.

Chickens scare me. I don't like them. They seem a little floppy or something.

I am too nervous to eat pie.

Although there was no enemy or danger to be perceived, they felt the apprehension and doubt of those who have come unaware upon some awe-inspiring place where they themselves are paltry fellows of no account.

If you think someone is seriously on the prod for your ass, it keeps you awake.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

The natural man "cannot see or discern that divine excellency in the Scripture, without an apprehension whereof no man can believe it aright to be the word of God."

Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin.

Men see what they are most afraid of.

Usually as humans and especially as a man, we look at things in context. It's like, oh, I know what that is, that's this, or this, there's that.

When you see a white guy at three in the morning on your beat in an alley, you kind of - "What's this guy doing here?"

There are two ways to face the future. One way is with apprehension; the other is with anticipation

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

I don't think I'm ready for New York.

Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.

He who keeps his heart near God will find peace and tranquility, whilst he who gives his heart to the people will find restlessness and apprehension.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

Most people', I say 'couldn't tell you if they're happy. They're simply baffled by the question. They might, if pressed, describe happiness as the absence of pain or any particular anxiety. They might cite small moments of exhilaration...but they'd admit that even these moments are shadowed by a cloud of apprehension'.

To do what is forbidden always has its charms, because we have an indistinct apprehension of something arbitrary and tyrannical in the prohibition.

more terrifying now that he had been

exhibited the mannerisms of a nervous man. He had glanced around too frequently in the waiting area, had drummed his fingers on the bench, had tapped the boarding pass on his knee, had eyed every fellow passenger in the tree-shaded square.