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Quotes About Apprehension

It was almost as if this sense of relaxation were totally new to her, so far back did her memory have to travel to recover a time when she had not waked to apprehension, and fallen asleep rehearsing fresh precautions for the morrow.
~ Edith Wharton
I believe that many of the boys have a lurking fear that their parents will disgrace them in some fashion.
~ Edmund Crispin
People are very fearful these days.
~ Alex Flinn
Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; Three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, And dissension have begun.
~ Alfred Bester
I fear human beings, because we cannot predict the swings of a human being. They are capable of doing anything. I really fear that.
~ P. T. Usha
I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
~ Danai Gurira
There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.
~ Caroline Kennedy
When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing.
~ Charles D. Broad
I'm a wuss - a complete wuss!
~ Wayne Knight
I'm so afraid of confrontation.
~ Elisabeth Moss
I am very suspicious of people.
~ Mika
I'm so suspicious of boys-slash-men. I just don't like them or trust them.
~ Megan Fox
The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of mortality shifts somewhere deep in the mind. It is the most ancient of our fears.
~ Lewis Thomas
All there was to it, he was in a panic. He was scared stiff that any minute a fact might come bouncing in that would force him to send me down to Cramer bearing gifts, and there was practically nothing on earth he wouldn't rather do, even eating ice cream with cantaloupe or horseradish on oysters.
~ Rex Stout
But I've always been terrified of the future. Even back then, I couldn't stop thinking about what everyone else ignored so skillfully. We're all going to die. And bad things are waiting around every corner. But in the end...all of that anxiety...all that worrying about the future...it didn't change anything.
~ Rick Remender
They both (Thalia and Hera) glared at her, and for three long seconds, Piper wasn't sure which one of them was going to kill her first.
~ Rick Riordan
He hated being filled with terror. It was embarrassing.
~ Rick Riordan
She seemed to have apprehended all of the composer's coldness and none of his poetry.
~ Kate Chopin
The more I think about it, the more terrified I am.
~ Kate DiCamillo
They're hobgoblins
~ Kate Klimo
Are you sure about that? Corey muttered once the were gone. Chloe is nice enough, but that Derek? Real charmer. If anyone busts through that door, he's liable to throw us to them as cannon fodder. I wasn't sure I disagreed.
~ Kelley Armstrong
I went out the side door. Looked around. Circled the building. Nothing. I took a deep breath and walked to the road, shoulders up, gaze forward, tensing for the first shout. Or the first shot.
~ Kelley Armstrong
And, having won thirty minutes of your time, I think I just gave you thirty minutes of reasons to run the other way as fast as you can.
~ Kelley Armstrong
We have every indication that he died of fright.
~ William Peter Blatty