Grasping Quotes

161 quotes by 141 authors

Since form is emptiness and emptiness is form, then instead of a hand grasping at nothing, it is better to grasp at someone's nose because… — Dalai Lama
In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping… — Annie Besant
There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream. — Louis Aragon
Well, we're grasping for two things at once. Partly for communion with others - that's the deepest instinct in us. And partly, we're seeking security.… — Ingmar Bergman
Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the form of aversion.… — Adyashanti
The interests of Oregon for today and in the future must be protected from the grasping wastrels of the land. We must respect another truism… — Tom McCall
How will we experience the world a month, a year, or five years from now? Will we be even angrier, more grasping and fearful, or… — Pema Chodron
The American Colossus was fiercely intent on appropriating and exploiting the riches of all continents - grasping with both hands, reaping where he had not… — Gifford Pinchot
Excellence is THE trend of the '80s. Walk into any shopping mall bookstore, go to the rack where they keep the best-sellers such as Garfield… — Dave Barry
We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven… — Emma Goldman
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in… — Thomas Fuller
For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics. — Brian Greene
Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.' — Angela Davis
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its… — Henry James
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. — Soren Kierkegaard
All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf,… — Christian Lous Lange
I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other… — Callan McAuliffe
Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity. — Matt Taibbi

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