[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But,… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Thus the feeling I sometimes have - which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have - that one cannot lie… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly… — Billy Tauzin 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
There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Excellence is THE trend of the '80s. Walk into any shopping mall bookstore, go to the rack where they keep the best-sellers… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it was somewhere else. No one seems… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
This power becomes particularly irresistible when exercised by those who, because they hold and control money, are able also to govern credit… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
“Even if you have not awakened, if you realize that your perceptions and activities are all like dreams and you view them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
With those organizations, it's like time travel. I just reach back and find little kids who were like me. Maybe the circumstances… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
Queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and your sons, queens of higher mystery to the… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold of—and which, if wrested… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
Happiness of heart can never be measured out and bundled up, it's intangible. We keep running after it, grasping for it, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In the case of complex personalities the matter stands thus: one of these can understand other men better than they can understand… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affections, feel His invisible hand,… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
...he makes me feel out of control and out of my head. He is exhilarating and terrifying. I see and feel him… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
Our problem is not that we're fallen; our problem is we haven't become human yet. The question is, what can make us… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye,… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
The blood of Abraham, God's father of the chosen, still flows in the veins of Arab, Jew, and Christian, and too much… — Jimmy Carter 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
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
'Deadwood' proved that viewers are smarter in terms of grasping intricate dialogue than they had been given credit for. — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Poetry can bridge that gap between what is solid and what is suggested; poetry can pull cogent meaning from the veiled truths… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I’m grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease, — David Chang Copy Share Image
No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
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