Grasped Quotes

145 Grasped quotes by 128 unique authors

What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers--shall we now Contaminate our fingers with… — William Shakespeare
one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident. — Arthur Koestler
The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the… — Alfred Sisley
The primary mode of experiencing images is non-verbal... but once it's brought out into the light of the day, what's understood by the subconscious intuitive… — John Paul Caponigro
The sounds of many were unintelligible and undoubtedly many more called for their parents from whom they were parted by death or by accident. They… — Martin Caidin
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. — Cyril Connolly
If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying… — Tony Judt
They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty… — Denis Kearney
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation. — Jean Kerr
Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands… — Will Self
I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of… — Sachin Tendulkar
Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the… — Paul Tillich
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite. — Paul Tillich
Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs and broadcast tweets,… — Douglas Rushkoff
Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm. — C.S. Lewis
But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in… — Jacques Lacan
At the foot of the mountain, the park ended and suddenly all was squalor again. I was once more struck by this strange compartmentalization that… — Bill Bryson
Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the… — Stephen King
For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final… — Viktor E. Frankl
Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to… — Karl Marx
That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular and the most… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Chingachgook grasped the hand that, in the warmth of feeling, the scout had stretched across the fresh earth, and in that attitude of friendship these… — James F. Cooper
All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are… — Milan Kundera
As long as you have not grasped that you have to die to grow, you are a troubled guest on the dark earth". — Mircea Eliade
Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show…… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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