Grappling Quotes

47 quotes by 46 authors

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them. — James M. Barrie
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.... — Joseph Joubert
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
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
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
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
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
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
I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse. — Robbie Williams
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
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

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