#apprehension

Wink and shut their apprehensions up. ↗

— John Marston

#shut #their #up #wink

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#arise #because #body #enact #execute

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#admirable #angel #apprehension #express #faculties

If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever. ↗

— George Berkeley

#any #apprehension #beyond #creation #extraordinary

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#dim #driven #existing #forward #general

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

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