Grasping Quotes

161 quotes by 141 authors

Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction. — Stephen Kinzer
I use zero photography. I have a photographic memory and a complete knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and an interest in grasping the moment of… — Richard MacDonald
All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology that steals from hard-working, taxpaying… — Rick Perlstein
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets… — Buddha
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. — Aesop
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. — George Bancroft
Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the… — Vitruvius
The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or… — Sharon Salzberg
Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are… — Henry Louis Mencken
The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to… — Albert Einstein
Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. — Ambrose Bierce
The past is weary and is long gone. Let go of the past and start grasping the opportunities that come your way. — Superman
The only thing worse than being abandoned, is not being worthy of an explanation. It hurts to let go... but the feeling you're falling.. grasping… — Jory Neville
It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There… — Laurel Lee
The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, proceeds best by grasping… — Adlai E. Stevenson
Awakening to voidness of one's mind and illusory grasping of consciousness appear to be alike, but don't be hoodwinked. — Milarepa
The truth is everybody can right the wrong things that they're done in the past. Everyone is perfectly capable of getting themselves out of doldrums.… — Pacifiersucker
Being on the road of life constitutes a different form of love. I'm referring to self-love. But not in the narcissistic sense; rather, love that… — Justice Cabral
He said nothing but his lips licked against mine again. Over and over. Coming together. Parting. Perfect. I was kissing him back with all the… — Sarah Wilkins
I love Coleridge ... and I am very willing to allow that he has more imagination than Wordsworth, and more of thereal poet. But after… — John Ruskin

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