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Grasping Quotes by John Ruskin
- You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with…
- Will you not covet such power as this, and seek such throne as this, and be no more housewives, but queens? There is no putting…
- I love Coleridge ... and I am very willing to allow that he has more imagination than Wordsworth, and more of thereal poet. But after…
More Grasping Quotes
- I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few,… — Abigail Adams
- Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. — Aesop
- You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology. — Deepak Chopra
- Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are… — H. L. Mencken
- I would like to appeal to all those in whose hands the future of mankind lies, to use their power not to… — Poul Hartling
- One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. — Elizabeth Bowen
- Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world… — Erich Fromm
- Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving,… — Sogyal Rinpoche
- There is no final solution to loneliness until you recognize that you need the resources which are in yourself to enpy, within… — Truman G. Madsen
- No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics… — Ludwig von Mises
- ...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe, and prevents… — Julian Huxley
- In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem insignificant; others… — Bronislaw Malinowski