Grasp Quotes

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The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act… — Frank Herbert
Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from… — Ronald Reagan
This account of him [Thomas More] developed as I wrote: what first attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any incapacity… — Robert Bolt
When a phrase is born, it is both good and bad at the same time. The secret of its success rests in a crux that… — Isaac Babel
The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Yet, even now, ever time (often) that I find that I don't understand something, then instinctively, I'm filled with the hope that perhaps this will… — Italo Calvino
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality — Viktor E. Frankl
Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is… — Umberto Eco
I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things...In the big things joy and sorrow… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as… — Edward Abbey
Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Kallor said: 'I walked this land when the T'lan Imass were but children. I have commanded armies a hundred thousand strong. I have spread the… — Steven Erikson
Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure -… — Charlotte Bronte
And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand. Metaphors turned beneath… — Vikram Chandra
It's freeing, to think that there's always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language. — Mark Doty
It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it… — Theodore Dreiser
Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' Talk is clouds, Table Talk is smoke." Les Miserables — Victor Hugo
if you pursue the truth far enough you always wind up in the land of paradox. You reach a point where the apparent truth divides… — Susan Howatch
There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us,… — Simone Weil
Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth… — Jostein Gaarder
Along your pathway of life you will observe that you are not the only traveler. There are others who need your help. There are feet… — Thomas S. Monson
Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. — Eckhart Tolle
To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us… — Albert Einstein
All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find,… — C.S. Lewis
Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on the violin. He once compared… — Laurie R. King

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