Grasps Quotes

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As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconcievable figure. The Divine Mind… — Jorge Luis Borges
Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often… — Joseph Addison
The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent otherworldly being, in Deo,… — Georg Cantor
Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray. — A B Simpson
It is then, we say, in the successive stages of his experience, that the believer sees more distinctly, and adores more profoundly, and grasps more… — Octavius Winslow
Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand,… — Bill Vaughan
Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the… — Theodor Adorno
Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by… — Neal A. Maxwell
It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow. — Khalil Gibran
He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but which grasps at… — Nicole Krauss
I kiss her and she finds the light switch and turns it off, and we're just lit in Pepsi-can colors and it's like we've finally… — David Levithan
I love you. As the same value, as the same expression, with the same pride and the same meaning as I love my work, my… — Ayn Rand
All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by two emotions--fear or love. In truth there are only two emotions--only two words in the… — Neale Donald Walsch
Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning and value to… — Pope Benedict XVI
The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion… — Alan Greenspan
Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day. — Unknown Author
I'm not different from others , I just absorb sensations the way a paintbrush grasps each color it touches, the shift of a season, the… — Senoraroy

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