Misgivings Quotes

“He had to pause for his usual misgivings.”

“Ponder upon the many misgivings of man and you shall be eternally in the state of pondering. -”

“Your life is too short to cry over the misgivings of others.Embrace the loves you have and have had and smile another day.”

“Complex steels our energy with the help of misgivings, strains, and fear of consequences for wrong decisions”

“There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.”

“I wanted to wash away our past misgivings in those tears that would run from our eyes and weave a new start by folding her in my arms.I wanted to, but I did not!”

“But he couldn’t risk taking the helmet off. It was the only thing saving him from the firing squad. He was no longer able to keep his thoughts silent. No longer able to squash his misgivings about what he had done.”

“Despite these afternoon misgivings and self-reproaches I clung to my notion, ill-defined though it was, that a serious study of human knowledge, or theory, or belief, if undertaken with a critical but not a cruel mind, would in the end yield some secret, some valuable permanent insight, into the nature of life and the true end of man.”

“Language-lovers know that there is a word for every fear. Are you afraid of wine? Then you have oenophobia. Tremulous about train travel? You suffer from siderodromophobia. Having misgivings about your mother-in-law is pentheraphobia, and being petrified of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth is arachibutyrophobia. And then there’s Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s affliction, the fear of fear itself, or phobophobia.”