Grappling Quotes

47 quotes by 46 authors

When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a story which… — Madeleine L'Engle
Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling… — Kobe Bryant
If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then itâ€™s really finished as a force for grappling with the… — J. M. Ledgard
Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with… — Robert Harris
We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but… — E. Stanley Jones
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 with something you've… — Clive Owen
The poet, therefore, is truly the thief of fire. He is responsible for humanity, for animals even; he will have to make sure his visions… — Arthur Rimbaud
You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have… — Sebastian Horsley
They would grow up grappling with ways of living with what happened. They would try to tell themselves that in terms of geological time it… — Arundhati Roy
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own… — Adrienne Rich
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the… — Homer
The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems… — Aung San Suu Kyi
Grappling with fate is like meeting an expert wrestler: to escape, you have to accept the fall when you are thrown. The only thing that… — Ming-Dao Deng
I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept… — Mary Oliver
Iâ€™ve been here before, dreaming myself backwards, among grappling hooks of light. True to the seasons, Iâ€™ve lived every word spoken. Did I walk into… — Yusef Komunyakaa
I was crying and laughing, snuffing tears and blood, bumping at him with my bound hands, trying awkwardly to thrust them at him so that… — Diana Gabaldon
Something aches at the very core of me, something ancient and deep and stronger than words: the filament that joins each of us to the… — Lauren Oliver
Thorne blinked at her, then down at the sewage he could barely make out in the darkness. "Don't you have some tool in that fancy… — Marissa Meyer
I'll wager I would have screwed things up regardless. But. . .can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over the rails, swords… — Scott Lynch
We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of… — Aberjhani

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