People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
True magic therefore is the high knowledge of the more subtle powers that have not yet been acknowledged by science up to… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
Most people never realize that 80% of the work is done before you step in a room. That's why they spend their… — Ramit Sethi Copy Share Image
Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving,… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Many of our attempts to understand Christian faith have only cheapened it. I can no more understand the totality of God than… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
The success of everything depends on intuition, the capacity of seeing things in a way which afterwards proves to be true, even… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
I failed math twice, never fully grasping probability theory. I mean, first off, who cares if you pick a black ball or… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
'Yea and I beheld Sisyphus in strong torment, grasping a monstrous stone with both his hands. He was pressing thereat with hands… — Homer Copy Share Image
Great art grabs you, against your will, and then suspends your will. You are ushered into a quiet clearing, free of desire,… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Establish your mind as necessary for knowledge and remembrance. Establish a mind free of grasping to anything. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
When desire for a certain person's attention becomes an "I have to have" kind of grasping, then identity gets organized around needing… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
The Internet is light at the end of the tunnel. I don't care if it's being used to peddle pornography, I don't… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only. — Mencius Copy Share Image
Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
