Grasp Quotes

851 Grasp quotes by 675 unique authors

The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant… — Thomas Eakins
It's OK if you don't know how much more you can handle. It's fine if you don't know what to do next. Eventually, you'll let… — Wendy Keller
If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to your mind is… — Michael Steinhardt
But when to-morrow comes, yesterday's morrow will have been already spent: and lo! a fresh morrow will be for ever making away with our years,… — Aulus Persius Flaccus
We only fully grasp the gospel when we understand, as Paul did, that we are the worst sinner we know — Timothy Keller
Fundamentalism has stood aloof from the liberal in self-conscious superiority and has on its own part fallen into error, the error of textualism, which is… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Religion is not what is grasped by the brain, but a heart grasp. — Mahatma Gandhi
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them? — Horace
To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough - whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate… — Walter Gropius
Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December… — Roy Blount, Jr.
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition. — Seneca the Younger
It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which gives us the key to… — Albert Einstein
The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow - that would be… — Alphonse Daudet
Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to such arcane spellings… — William Safire
We have lost faith in the formal powers of the mind, not, as some suppose, because our universe is too difficult to grasp, but because… — Lewis Mumford
The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of… — Lewis Mumford
If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp, and someone tells… — Oswald Chambers
At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak,… — Josiah Royce
Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well. — Mao Zedong
The trouble with ghostwriting is that it raises the issue of whether the president is in a state of diminished responsibility for what he says.… — Jonathan Raban
In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include at least a rudimentary grasp of… — Phyllis Bottome

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