Quotes About Apprehension

Like I knew it was bad. And there were these posters.

The Arab progeny here have scanty beards, and many grow to a very great height—tall, gaunt savages; while the Muscatees have prominent nose-bridges, good beards, and are polite and hospitable. I wish I had some of the assurance possessed by others, but I am oppressed with the apprehension that after all it may turn out that I have been following the Congo; and who would risk being put into a cannibal pot, and converted into black man for it?

There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery

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

People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, "God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright."

When you read something that good, it's terrifying because you're thinking, "Oh, god, what if I don't get this?"

God, I am freaking out. Maybe he doesn't know. Maybe I just look guilty of something and he's picking up on that.

Anything that begins 'I don't know how to tell you this' is never good news.

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

In Waziristan people get really upset when there are no drone attacks. Their apprehension is that the US and Pakistani government might enter in an agreement to halt the attacks.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

We hope vaguely but dread precisely.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

What you hope for, you also fear.

Paranoid means you are aware of 10% of the problem

Are you taking us to hell?" I ask, and Denise answers with an ominous, "More or less.

Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.

I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.

When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.

I was scared...and did not know what was coming for me next.

I am anxious. I am always anxious. I should change my name to Anxiety Dickinson. I am anxious about my little sister. My big sister. My mother. Myself. Life. I am anxious about what to wear, what to eat, what to say, how to breathe.

Ruth Varnum was always as nervous as a rat; and, come to think of