Grasp Quotes

851 Grasp quotes by 675 unique authors

There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its… — Edward Hopper
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer. — Elbert Hubbard
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay. — Muhammad Iqbal
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. — William James
It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem… — Nicole Kidman
When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced… — Greg Kinnear
I grew up loving actresses or actors who were very classy but who seemed a little bit mysterious because you couldn't grasp what they're really… — Diane Kruger
As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in… — Jacques Lacan
Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection. — Christopher Lasch
The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive. — Fran Lebowitz
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No,… — Abraham Lincoln
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. — James Russell Lowell
I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind. — Norman Mailer
While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible… — Maimonides
The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a… — Marshall McLuhan
Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp. — Maria Mitchell
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. — Claude Monet
One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it… — Christopher Nolan
It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be… — Ted Nugent
Leaders grasp nettles. — David Ogilvy

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