Grappling Quotes
47 quotes by 46 authors
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Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
— James M. Barrie
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Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived…
— Stephen Greenblatt
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Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the…
— Albert Einstein
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Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
— William James
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"Is it how she moves, or how she looks?" I say it's loneliness suspended to our own like grappling hooks, And as long as she's…
— Dar Williams
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If a man has the right to self-ownership, to the control of his life, then in the real world he must also have the right…
— Murray Rothbard
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And so on, until you arrive at the other side, among the purely abstract self-harming: the grinding over your failures, the refusal to remember anything…
— Alexander Masters
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At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where…
— James McGreevey
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He's a complete fighter. He has some flaws, of course, but he has a good stand up game, good takedowns and a good ground game.…
— Lyoto Machida
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I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to…
— Siobhan Fahey
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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another....
— Joseph Joubert
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Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say
— Jaron Lanier
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So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not…
— Jennifer Granholm
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I certainly have a very colorful nature, filled with great highs and great lows... in my early adulthood I probably was grappling with some serious…
— Sally Field
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I came up during the 'Star Wars' generation and that was sort of the thing I plugged into much more. It was a little before…
— Zachary Quinto
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America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.
— David Alan Grier
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A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On…
— Alan Ryan
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I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse.
— Robbie Williams
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She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only she herself, but…
— Toni Morrison
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To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or-maybe more importantly-are grappling with. Often unconsciously.…
— Todd Hido
Who Wrote These Grappling Quotes
46 authors contributed a total of 47 Grappling Quotes, led by these top contributors: