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Tag Name "Apprehension" (107)

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Apprehension is natural, but it must not be concluded that it is a threat. Certainly not.
S. R. Nathan
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In the case of Wilderpeople, I walked on the first day with some apprehension actually because it doesn't come anywhere close to anything I've really played before, this part.
Sam Neill
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We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were a few days in advance of us and as we too supposed them to be Mormons, we had some apprehension of interruption.
Francis Parkman
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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
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There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Seneca the Younger
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Thought is just an apprehension of touch.
Gary Snyder
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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being. For a woman, aging is not only her destiny . . . it is also her vulnerability.
Susan Sontag
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Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger from their folly, not from their wisdom their weakness is what fills us with apprehension, not their strength.
John Stuart Mill
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If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention where I had the honor to preside might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical society, certainly I would never have placed my signature to it.
George Washington
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Being aware of truths about what is good or right or about what we ought to do is not the same as deciding what to do. Nor can the former truths be derived from decisions about what to do, or about procedures for making such decisions, unless these procedures themselves rest in some way on the apprehension of truths about what we ought to do.
Allen W. Wood
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Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.
Thomas Traherne
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What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
Karl Barth
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
Guy de Maupassant
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There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport... It will create problems because their behavior, speech and dress is just a completely different culture.
Arthur Ashe
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There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being.
Walter Raleigh
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The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
Lucan
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
Harper Lee
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A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly problems. It is almost equally true that a clear and full apprehension of the universal providence of God is the solution of most theological problems.
B. B. Warfield
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I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above.
Will Self
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Lovers of Swaraj cannot rest till a solution is found which would allay Mussalman apprehensions and yet not endanger Swaraj.
Mahatma Gandhi
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In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been retarded by the unwarranted degree of fear and apprehension created by these outside forces.
Herbert Hoover
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Faith ... is a conscious apprehension of something inevident, something which unlike this desk and this chair is not seen to be there, even if it enters into the fabric of our personal relations to reality with at least as much force, relevance, and moment as things which are seen to be there.
Bernard Lonergan
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The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.
William Godwin
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