Grasp Quotes

851 Grasp quotes by 675 unique authors

There did not have to be a moral. She need only show separate minds, as alive as her own, struggling with the idea that other… — Ian Mcewan
I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions… — Cornel West
It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love — Clarence Jordan
I'm tired of this. It's like, just when I think our goal is within reach, it slips right through our fingers. It's happened time and… — Hiromu Arakawa
Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it… — Galileo Galilei
It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple… — Ian Mcewan
Up to a point a personâ€™s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when… — Louis L'Amour
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project — Simone de Beauvoir
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

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