It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all
the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it; makes it
apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and
delectable shapes; which delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue,
which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
Quotes about apprehensive (16 Quotes)
Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.
I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
The furor could give Sony a black eye, potentially costing the company millions of dollars. They're making consumers apprehensive, ... They're concerned that they're buying something that makes their computer crash. This affects all the labels. The average consumer doesn't know it's just Sony, so they become reluctant to buy CDs.
We need someone with big bucks to go in there to make Michael's into substantive real estate, and I'm pleased that Dunkin' Donuts has enough money to go in there and make those changes. I think a lot of people are apprehensive, but I don't think they have thought it through. They don't want Dunkin' Donuts, they want someone else, but we can't get someone else who would be willing to redo the building. I was afraid that it was going to be turned into a real estate office, and that would be very terrible.
Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.
My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach.
There were some people that were apprehensive, but it only took the first week of the season to see how much faster the ball is in Triple A, ... I've said all along that Round Rock deserves to have the top level of minor-league baseball because of the way the fans support the team.
I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer.
You are apprehensive of monarchy I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate.
We're going to see no enormous change in trend. Ahead of the upcoming earnings reporting season, the market mood is going to remain apprehensive.
They're just apprehensive about 'the new,' ... They're very intelligent animals. They're creatures of habit just like we are.
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
When they step in the very first day, it's all success. Many of the students have already had the failure experience, so they are a bit apprehensive about taking academic risks. That's really what learning is all about. They need to feel comfortable stating an answer even though it may be wrong.
When you do something like this, you do increase the vulnerability for fraud, plain waste, abuse and mismanagement. We are very apprehensive about what we are seeing so far.
So in the world, 'tis furnish'd well with men,
And men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive;
Yet in the number I do know but one
That unassailable holds on his rank,
Unshaked of motion; and that I am he,
Let me a little show it, even in this;
That I was constant Cimber should be banish'd,
And constant do remain to keep him so.