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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
Work
God
Man
Angel
Action
Apprehension
Admirable
Faculties
Noble
Like
Piece
How
Infinite
Form
Moving
Reason
Express
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
Isaac Newton
Man
Understanding
Imagination
Apprehension
Only
He
True
Understand
False
May
Them
Things
Imagine
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.
Montesquieu
Liberty
Apprehension
Tyrannical
Laws
Arise
Execute
Powers
Executive
Because
Enact
Person
Senate
Same
May
Legislative
Them
Manner
Should
Body
Lest
Monarch
United
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Reality
Apprehension
More
Than
Often
Us
Suffer
Alarm
Things
Harm
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
Pliny the Elder
Grief
Fear
Apprehension
Possibly
Only
Know
None
Limits
May
Whereas
Happen
Happened
Grieve
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
Honore de Balzac
Love
Wisdom
Apprehension
Spirit
Rises
Through
Heavenly
Which
Things
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
Henri Bergson
Reality
Other
Apprehension
Some
Faculty
Intellect
Than
Necessary
If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
Maimonides
Respect
Confused
Too Much
Will
Power
Too
Apprehend
Apprehension
Alike
Able
Had
Studies
He
Powers
Within
Been
His
Reflective
Person
Which
Much
Body
Even
It was the corner sweet-shop in Australia that first piqued my interest in interior design. I went into this space with a mixture of apprehension and excitement as a child. It was filled, floor to ceiling, with the most incredible rounded glass bowls filled to the brim with bonbons, buttons, and sweets.
Anouska Hempel
Interior
Space
First
Design
Corner
Apprehension
Incredible
Excitement
Glass
Most
Bowls
Mixture
Australia
Ceiling
Child
Interest
Sweets
Filled
Rounded
Floor
Brim
Buttons
I think scale is about, in a way, the apprehension of proportion, and all the proportions that mean things to us as human beings are related to the body.
Antony Gormley
Think
Related
Apprehension
Way
Scale
About
Proportion
Proportions
Human
Human Beings
Mean
Us
Body
Beings
Things
In any merger, the biggest challenge is always integration of human resources because the people who are coming in have a lot of apprehension.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
People
Challenge
Apprehension
Resources
Merger
Because
Always
Coming
Integration
Lot
Any
Human
Biggest
Biggest Challenge
Who
Human Resources
There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.
Caroline Kennedy
Great
You
Think
Apprehension
About
Poems
Adult
Excitement
Becoming
Much
Many
I think there's a lot of wonderful comics that leave you hanging in a state of apprehension or anxiety before alleviating that tension with a joke.
Carrie Brownstein
You
Wonderful
Anxiety
Joke
Before
Think
Apprehension
State
Alleviating
Tension
Leave
Comics
Lot
Hanging
We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were a few days in advance of us; and as we too supposed them to be Mormons, we had some apprehension of interruption.
Francis Parkman
Before
Few
Too
Apprehension
Evident
Some
Mentioned
Mormons
Had
Advance
Joseph
Days
Supposed
Parties
Traces
Were
Trail
Them
Us
Large
Now
Interruption
Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Beauty
Apprehension
Relation
Comparison
Wink and shut their apprehensions up.
John Marston
Apprehension
Wink
Up
Shut
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
Mind
Fears
Somewhere
Gone
Apprehension
Symptoms
Our
Recognition
Ancient
Something
Wrong
Mortality
Glimpse
Most
Shifts
Often
Sensation
Deep
Illness
Earliest
I have no apprehension over cutting my hair.
Mithila Palkar
Hair
Apprehension
Over
Cutting
When I was asked to read a screenplay about Margaret Thatcher, I think I felt immediate apprehension.
Phyllida Lloyd
Think
Apprehension
Immediate
About
Read
Felt
Thatcher
Screenplay
Asked
Margaret
Margaret Thatcher
I had no apprehensions doing bold scenes.
Radhika Apte
Apprehension
Scenes
Had
Doing
Bold
'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
Rakul Preet Singh
Work
Time
Me
You
Achievement
People
Fans
Before
Apprehension
Otherwise
Say
Would
Some
About
Bruce
Bruce Lee
Could
Selecting
Nobody
Comfort
Because
Makes
Real
Were
Waited
Lee
Commented
Want
Again
Might
Level
The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.
Roland Allen
Spiritual
Men
Met
Apprehension
Cried
Those
Aloud
Were
Intellectual
Moved
Them
Much
Apostles
Whom
Illumination
Need
I met Lalit Modi in London once. He had apprehensions regarding coming back to India, as his security was withdrawn. He was not worried about cases filed against him.
Sharad Pawar
Met
Apprehension
Back
Worried
Once
Security
India
London
About
Cases
Had
He
Withdrawn
Him
Coming
His
Regarding
Against
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
Seriously
Mind
Apprehension
Negroes
More
More And More
True
Becoming
Public
Public Mind
The Marshals were founded when our nation was founded and from the earliest period, one of their key tasks has been apprehension. They are our fugitive enforcers in this country.
William Barr
Key
Country
Nation
Apprehension
Our
Has-Been
Period
Were
Been
Tasks
Fugitive
Founded
Earliest
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