Grasped Quotes
145 quotes by 128 authors
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One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but…
— Hermann Ebbinghaus
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When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their…
— Christopher Lasch
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The thing thats caught me off guard is going to dinner and people asking me for autographs or to take a picture. People coming to…
— Johnny Manziel
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The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught the trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit…
— Zhuangzi
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It is not good to settle into a set of opinions. It is a mistake to put forth effort and obtain some understanding and then…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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I am thankful, however, that some of our white brothers have grasped the meaning of this social revolution and committed themselves to it. They are…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.
— Laozi
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Most of the problems of the world stems from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don’t ever take words at face value. When you step into…
— Elif Safak
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If you don’t get excited about the gospel, you’ve never really grasped what it’s telling you.
— Derek Prince
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I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity.
— Trevor Nunn
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Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book.…
— Rebecca Mead
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When I put my pen to a blank sheet, black isn’t added but rather the white sheet is deprived of light. [] Thus I also…
— Adrian Frutiger
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The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly…
— William James
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Oh, to have “the word of Christ†always dwelling inside of us;-in the memory, never forgotten; in the heart, always loved; in the understanding, really…
— Charles Spurgeon
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A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new…
— Henri Matisse
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I believe the sense of lost opportunity is rooted in a faulty understanding of God's grace. Likewise, when grace is grasped and embraced, the Land…
— David Jeremiah
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...with a rush of feeling he felt that this must be happiness. As soon as the thought came to him, he fought it back, blaming…
— John McGahern
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For the soul of a person to be inflamed with passion for the living God, that person's mind must first be informed about the character…
— R C Sproul
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The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed.
— J C Ryle
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No one seeing a beautifully elaborated lyre with its harmonious, orderly arrangement, and hearing the lyre's music will fail to form a notion of its…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
Who Wrote These Grasped Quotes
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