“When we are grappling with misery and our heart is in a knot, we may well do better to snap back to… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You don't learn to write by going through a series of preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling with a… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
If you're dealing with grappling [with] problems of feeding people, the biggest impact in fertility reduction is girls' schools. Schooled girls make… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
One of the things I really respect about Doug Moo is that he is constantly grappling with the text. Where he hears… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their… — William James Copy Share Image
I came up during the 'Star Wars' generation and that was sort of the thing I plugged into much more. It was… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
There's something to play if there's conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that's where drama is; if the character is grappling… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
I think I was the first executive to ever speak at a Greenpeace business conference, in London in 2001. That didn't play… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder… — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
I don't believe that the American people want us to focus on our job security. They want us to focus on their… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it’s really finished as a force for… — J. M. Ledgard Copy Share Image
The beauty of the literary art, the grappling with the black church, the wrestling with one's identity in the bosom of a… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
When you're dealing with an ambivalent relationship, you're constantly on guard, grappling with questions of trust. — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
"Is it how she moves, or how she looks?" I say it's loneliness suspended to our own like grappling hooks, And as… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Good and evil, as we term them, are not antagonistic; they are ever found hand in hand. Humanity has never achieved a… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
And so on, until you arrive at the other side, among the purely abstract self-harming: the grinding over your failures, the refusal… — Alexander Masters Copy Share Image
Grappling with fate is like meeting an expert wrestler: to escape, you have to accept the fall when you are thrown. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image