Grasp Quotes
851 quotes by 675 authors
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it’s not who…
— Al Pacino
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His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The widely accepted assertion that, only if you let markets be will everyone be paid correctly and thus fairly, according to his worth, is a…
— Ha-Joon Chang
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We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be just…
— Michael Polanyi
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To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.
— Abraham Kuyper
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Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.
— Cory Doctorow
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But you don't let true happiness slip out of your grasp without one helluva fight.
— Johanna Lindsey
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At Last It's a perfect winter day. No wind. No Arctic freeze. Cloudless azure sky. A day to fly. Snow drapes the mountain like ermine,…
— Ellen Hopkins
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Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What’s most important is what you can’t see but can feel in your heart. To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have…
— Haruki Murakami
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Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother Jove? Surely all this…
— Herman Melville
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My child, you have a flawed grasp of the nature of myth-making. I am a poet and storyteller, a creator of ballads and sagas. Pray…
— Frances Hardinge
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Don't you understand? Listen carefully to what I'm saying. If you do, you'll get it. you can grasp this easily. In short...in short, I shut…
— Tatsuhiko Takimoto
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Only when it is seen that what decides each individual's destiny is whether or not God decides to save him from his sins, and that…
— J I Packer
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Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp…
— Donna Tartt
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Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.
— James G. Frazer
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Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth…
— Dean Koontz
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Startled, he loosed his grasp and she pulled free. He clutched her arm, but she spun around and pressed her mouth to his. His lips…
— Holly Black
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Let me go!†I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp. “I can’t,†he says.
— Suzanne Collins
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Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between ‘I…
— Anne Carson
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