Grasp Quotes

851 Grasp quotes by 675 unique authors

Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isnâ€™t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by the vocal cords.… — Eckhart Tolle
I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch… — Michel de Montaigne
She looked at him, and oh, the weariness to her, of the effort to understand another language, the weariness of hearing him, attending to him,… — D. H. Lawrence
Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the… — Salman Rushdie
I have read so many books. And yet, like most Autodidacts, I am never quite sure of what I have gained from them. There are… — Muriel Barbery
The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of… — John Ortberg
Repetition is sometimes the best way to deal with the Luideag: just keep saying the same thing over and over until she gets fed up… — Mira Grant
We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are here… — Bill Bryson
The love in his eyes was so powerful, I needed to look away. Seth had an amazing grasp of the English language, but there were… — Richelle Mead
Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a… — Pat Conroy
Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes. — Arthur Schopenhauer
It is true that God may have called you to be exactly where you are. But, it is absolutely vital to grasp that he didnâ€™t… — Francis Chan
This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving -- and to act, to strive.… — Spider Robinson
I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it? Miracles… — Ellis Peters
In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at… — Barbara Kingsolver
Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of… — Margaret Atwood
Sister," he murmured, not as an inquiry, but a statement of fact. "Brother mine," she groaned... before her consciousness slipped from her grasp and she… — J R Ward
Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition. — Max Ernst
Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices, and you can… — Elizabeth Gilbert
When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being,… — Joseph Campbell

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