Quotes about Apprehension
To Mr. Casaubon now, it was as if he suddenly found himself on the dark river-brink and heard the plash of the oncoming oar, not discerning the forms, but expecting the summons.
- George Eliot
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
- St. Augustine
Where shame is, there is also fear.
- John Milton
Our father would never tell us what it was he feared, but he had a most marked aversion to men with wooden legs.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
If a sight of Christ's outward glory might give a rational assurance of His divinity, why might not an apprehension of He is spiritual glory do so too?
- Jonathan Edwards
Sometimes things we take for granted every day can be taken from us permanently and suddenly, we're changed forever.
- Don Piper
You saw fear and apprehension. The fear was made by what he had been through. The apprehension was for the possibility of evil he imagined.
- Ernest Hemingway
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
- Anonymous
Fear came upon me, and trembling.
- Anonymous
It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.
- Frank Herbert
We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.
- Madeleine L'Engle
What you hope for, you also fear.
- Alice Walker