#apprehension

Apprehension is natural, but it must not be concluded that it is a threat. Certainly not. ↗

— Sellapan Ramanathan

#certainly #concluded #must #natural #threat

It is notoriously true that the public mind is seriously agitated with apprehensions of negroes insurrections and that it is becoming more and more so. ↗

— Thomas L. Smith

#becoming #mind #more #more and more #notoriously

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

#apprehension #deep #earliest #fears #glimpse

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#faculty #intellect #necessary #other #reality

I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#bitter #cannot #coming #desired #dreadful

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#believe #devil #haunts #heaviest #imagination

One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#bad #bad example #compensate #could #effects

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#beauty #comparison #relation

It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends. ↗

— Peter Hook

#apprehension #being #case #each #end

Wink and shut their apprehensions up. ↗

— John Marston

#shut #their #up #wink