Famous quotes containing the word apprehension:
“Beauty ... is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
“I don’t want to be an alarmist, but I think that the Younger Generation is up to something.... I base my apprehension on nothing more definite than the fact that they are always coming in and going out of the house, without any apparent reason.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“Consider how the speechless, invisible gods
Ruled us before, from over Asia, by
Our merest apprehension of their will.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
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