Grasp Quotes

851 Grasp quotes by 675 unique authors

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp? — William Osler
The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ… — Pope John Paul II
The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am… — Evita Peron
Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long… — Nancy Reagan
The two things I understand best are stand-up comedy and martial arts. And those things require an ultimate grasp of the truth. You have to… — Joe Rogan
Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life. — Wilma Rudolph
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. — Carl Sagan
Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form. — Jessica Savitch
The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me. — Jessica Savitch
The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp. — William Shatner
Success should always be just beyond your grasp. — William Shatner
A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep… — Hugh Sidey
All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these… — Abdurrahman Wahid
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. — Daniel Webster
Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium… — John Archibald Wheeler
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life… — Alfred North Whitehead
Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind,… — Mary Wollstonecraft
If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and what… — Felicia Day
I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from… — Annie Dillard
Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order. — George Orwell

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