Grasp Quotes
851 Grasp quotes by 675 unique authors
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I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as rises sometimes to…
— Anais Nin
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A person comes into the world with a fist-and a grasp. Yes, we are built to fight one another, but also to embrace. How cleverly…
— Rachel Simon
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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot understand it if…
— Galileo Galilei
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I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths…
— Richard Rorty
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...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too…
— Milan Kundera
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If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with…
— Adrienne Rich
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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition…
— Alan Watts
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Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.
— Frederick Buechner
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Love one another, Jesus said. Sometimes it took a lifetime to learn how. Sometimes it took someone to hit rock bottom to make someone reach…
— Francine Rivers
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It is important to grasp that boredom is one of the most common - and undesirable - consequences of 'unicameralism'. Boredom is a feeling of…
— Colin Wilson
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Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring…
— Gustave Flaubert
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God exists outside of time, and since we are within time, there is no way we will ever totally grasp that concept.
— Francis Chan
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But of all the water's secrets, he saw today only a single one-one that struck his soul. He saw that this water flowed and flowed,…
— Hermann Hesse
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To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts.
— Haruki Murakami
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Please," Kendra said. "Think of all the lives that will be destroyed." "I have," Mark said. "Believe me, darling, I grasp all aspects of this,…
— Brandon Mull
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Always in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something--he could not grasp what-that lay beyond the place where the thickness…
— Lois Lowry
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For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other than…
— Alan Watts
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I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.
— George R. R. Martin
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But then the girl moved, and smiled, and pulled her hand from the grate- a gorgeous green stone clutched tightly in her grasp. It was…
— Ally Carter
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And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who Wrote These Grasp Quotes
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