Grasp Quotes
851 Grasp quotes by 675 unique authors
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Maybe I’m drunk right now, even though I don’t remember drinking anything. When I’m drunk, I say things without thinking. Drinking numbs you from your…
— Carlton Mellick III
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Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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To be radical is to grasp things by the root.
— Karl Marx
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My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely perceptible but incurable-rather…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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Liminal sucks. You can't grasp it with your hands and shape it. You can't make midnight come faster, or grow up sooner, or avoid the…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents? Anything as hard to grasp as the fact that those two over-the-hill…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms? Harry's…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become…
— Karl Jaspers
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Mine the long night The secret place Where lovers meet In long embrace In purple dark In silvered kiss Forget the world And grasp your…
— A. S. Byatt
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As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we…
— Anne Rice
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To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man…
— Milan Kundera
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A man will never love you or treat you as well as a store. If a man doesn’t fit, you can’t exchange him seven days…
— Sophie Kinsella
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I wondered if she was trying to convey something to me, something she could not put into words - something prior to words that she…
— Haruki Murakami
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If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain…
— Bill Bryson
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Even though you can't finally grasp me, guess what? I still want to be known.
— William P. Young
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...you have to reach for things beyond your grasp, or what is heaven for
— Garth Stein
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I am what some would say 'holy, and wholly other than you.' The problem is that many folks try to grasp some sense of who…
— William P. Young
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Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch,…
— Yukio Mishima
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