Quotes about Grasp

Grasp the subject, the words will follow. Votes: 3

Grasp not at much, for fear thou losest all. Votes: 3

The world's a nettle; disturb it, it stings: Grasp it firmly, it stings not. Votes: 3

Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom. Votes: 3

Even if your Ego Doesn't Grasp it, this is the Truth: Everything is on Time Under Heaven's Net Votes: 3

My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will. Votes: 3

This is an an abundant universe. Grasp your birthright. Success is a massive abundance of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. Votes: 3

Grasp it all, don't be afraid, enjoy the bits you can and tell your family you love them while you have the chance. Votes: 3

Your life is your own, your glory is your glory, but you will lose it if you keep it for yourself. Grasp it for the sake of others... Votes: 3

I am the one rich thing that morn Leaves for the ardent noon to win; Grasp me not, I have a thorn, But bend and take my being in. Votes: 3

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. Votes: 2

But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose. Votes: 2

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? Votes: 2

The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive. Votes: 2

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. Votes: 2

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind. Votes: 2

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. Votes: 2

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication. Votes: 2

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication. Votes: 2

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. Votes: 2

I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay. Votes: 2

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. Votes: 2

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself. Votes: 2

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way. Votes: 2

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy. Votes: 2

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. Votes: 2

When an opportunity comes, it holds possibilities. And when you move away from it or don't sense it or grasp it, you're really throwing away your future; you're throwing away your tomorrow. Votes: 2

The two things I understand best are stand-up comedy and martial arts. And those things require an ultimate grasp of the truth. You have to be objective about your skills and abilities to compete in both. Votes: 2

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist. Votes: 2

In sport you always think the strongest guy should be going for it and getting the best results. The thing is, cycling also has a very important team aspect, which I don't think that a lot of people fully grasp. Votes: 2

The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message. Votes: 2

I think music is about our internal life. It's part of the way people touch each other. That's very precious to me. And astronomy is, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp. Votes: 2

I grew up loving actresses or actors who were very classy but who seemed a little bit mysterious because you couldn't grasp what they're really thinking. I mean, Grace Kelly always looked impossibly glamorous, yet you could always see there was something behind her eyes. Votes: 2

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it. Votes: 2

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. Votes: 2

I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ's true love and forgiveness. Votes: 2

Leaders grasp nettles. Votes: 0

Small minds cannot grasp great subjects. Votes: 0

This vision is within our grasp. Votes: 0

Meaningful work is within your grasp. Votes: 0

But how can finite grasp Infinity? Votes: 0

Rise above oneself and grasp the world. Votes: 0

Always let your reach exceed your grasp. Votes: 0

Your reach should always exceed your grasp. Votes: 0

Potential: a bridge between ask and grasp. Votes: 0

Success should always be just beyond your grasp. Votes: 0

You have a firm grasp of the obvious. Votes: 0

Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp. Votes: 0

It's in great joy that we grasp truth. Votes: 0

Often the hands grasp more quickly than the head. Votes: 0

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp. Votes: 0

The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp. Votes: 0

Weeds grasp their own essence and express its truth. Votes: 0

It is within everyone's grasp to be a CEO. Votes: 0

Dogs do not grasp the concept of house cleaning. Votes: 0

So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp. Votes: 0

Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel. Votes: 0

Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times. Votes: 0

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp. Votes: 0

Every man is made to reach out beyond his grasp. Votes: 0

We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit. Votes: 0

To be radical is to grasp things by the root. Votes: 0

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith. Votes: 0

Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history. Votes: 0

God destines us for an end beyond the grasp of reason. Votes: 0

Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp. Votes: 0

I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time. Votes: 0

I grasp reality, but sometimes I like to choke it into submission. Votes: 0

The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics. Votes: 0

The mere possibility provides no warrant for denying what I clearly grasp. Votes: 0

You can't grasp the wonderful and keep your feet on the ground. Votes: 0

The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future. Votes: 0

I require distance from the past in order to grasp the future. Votes: 0

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them? Votes: 0

A life of happiness, peace, and love is all within our grasp. Votes: 0

I'm a half-demon princess. Sure. What's so hard to grasp about that? Votes: 0

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it. Votes: 0

We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp Votes: 0

People grow. It's okay to grow. Some people find that difficult to grasp. Votes: 0

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life. Votes: 0

I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook. Votes: 0

Faith is not belief, it is the grasp on the Ultimate, an illumination. Votes: 0

Human mind can grasp everything in the universe; but it cannot change everything! Votes: 0

Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them. Votes: 0

One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others cannot grasp. Votes: 0

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. Votes: 0

Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions. Votes: 0

Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow. Votes: 0

And what I don't understand I grasp it only when it's too late. Votes: 0

Star Trek has brought so much of what I want within my grasp. Votes: 0

Religion is not what is grasped by the brain, but a heart grasp. Votes: 0

my thoughts are like quick little fish that swim out of my grasp. Votes: 0

To grasp God in all things--this is the sign of your new birth. Votes: 0

...you have to reach for things beyond your grasp, or what is heaven for Votes: 0

Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation. Votes: 0

For one brief moment victory was within our grasp!" "And then the game started! Votes: 0

I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar! Votes: 0

Art reminds us that in fact the world always exceeds our grasp and perception. Votes: 0

Water runs if you try to grasp it, but pours onto an open hand. Votes: 0

All this rapture," managed Letty, wriggling out of her mother's grasp, "is decidedly premature." Votes: 0

Success is an intoxicant, and intoxicated people seldom have a firm grasp on reality. Votes: 0

Everyone must be given something he can grasp and recognize as his own idea. Votes: 0

Victory is within our ready grasp...We are in reach of a famous victory Votes: 0

I like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind. Votes: 0

It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters. Votes: 0

Most people, solidly frozen into long-held, common notions, are unable to grasp clearer views. Votes: 0

Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening. Votes: 0

On its own, having escaped my grasp, the spool I had loosed was unwinding. Votes: 0

If one could possess, grasp, and know the other, it would not be other. Votes: 0

Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person's viewpoint. Votes: 0

Falconer's grasp of period and places is almost flawless ... He's my kind of writer. Votes: 0

But you don't let true happiness slip out of your grasp without one helluva fight. Votes: 0

Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. Votes: 0

Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers. Votes: 0

My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them. Votes: 0

Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip Votes: 0

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. Votes: 0

A certain grasp of military affairs is vital for those in charge of general policy. Votes: 0

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. Votes: 0

Even though you can't finally grasp me, guess what? I still want to be known. Votes: 0

On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp. Votes: 0

The roads to the stars are open only to those who grasp the great thoughts! Votes: 0

I like a girl who's smart, they have to be able to grasp witty sarcasm. Votes: 0

It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp. Votes: 0

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation Votes: 0

Haste is never more dangerous than when you feel that victory is in your grasp. Votes: 0

Too close a view may interfere with one's grasp of an overall problem or concept Votes: 0

To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts. Votes: 0

Not being a liberal, I have very little grasp of things that I know nothing about. Votes: 0

Tool - something with a use on one end and a grasp on the other end. Votes: 0

Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp. Votes: 0

The inability to grasp the pathology* of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults. Votes: 0

Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you. Votes: 0

For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption. Votes: 0

Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order. Votes: 0

To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice. Votes: 0

To reach an audacious goal, we sometimes benefit from having it lie just beyond our grasp. Votes: 0

I don't think in the past. I don't think in the future. You grasp the moment. Votes: 0

We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn't enough. We need to raise the quality. Votes: 0

Our green valleys will be greener once we fully grasp the infinite vitality of the green! Votes: 0

Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence. Votes: 0

Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present. Votes: 0

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp? Votes: 0

The only thing we have to give to the world is our own grasp on it. Votes: 0

Failure to grasp centrifugal meaning is incomplete reading; failure to grasp centripetal meaning is incompetent reading. Votes: 0

Tranquility is like quicksilver. The harder you grab for it, the less likely you will grasp it. Votes: 0

Nothing fosters courage like a clear grasp of grace... & nothing fosters fear like an ignorance of mercy Votes: 0

A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance. Votes: 0

Difficult as it often is to grasp someone else's pain, it is easy to judge another's behavior. Votes: 0

Your mind can grasp intellectual ideas, but it is in the FEELING where the transformation takes place. Votes: 0

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form. Votes: 0

Avoid the "hard-to-grasp" headline - the headline that requires thought and is not clear at first glance. Votes: 0

People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images. Votes: 0

It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form. Votes: 0

... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp. Votes: 0

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone. Votes: 0

It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp. Votes: 0

I think music as in flesh- if it want, could grasp your soul, straighten it, roughen it. Votes: 0

Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality. Votes: 0

It's hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I'm talking to them. Votes: 0

To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible. Votes: 0

Its hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my fathers equal in any way. Votes: 0

Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition. Votes: 0

By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it. Votes: 0

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality Votes: 0

Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp Votes: 0

There are feet to steady, hands to grasp, minds to encourage, hearts to inspire, and souls to save Votes: 0

The mind is not designed to grasp the laws of probability, even though the laws rule the universe. Votes: 0

I learned very early that people need to have a good grasp of God's goodness and God's sovereignty. Votes: 0

Take a firm grasp on God's sovereignty and trust His love even when you don't understand His purpose. Votes: 0

Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise Votes: 0

Stache’s attack was perfectly timed, thanks to his veteran-pirate grasp tactics—and a big piece if luck. Votes: 0

Children have imagination enough to grasp any idea which you present to them with honesty and without patronage. Votes: 0

The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization. Votes: 0

We can only grasp the gospel's sweetness if we first grapple with its offense- you can't save yourself. Votes: 0

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection. Votes: 0

I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness And I believe greatness is within our grasp. Votes: 0

The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process Votes: 0

We can never grasp the extent of our depravity until we recognize the excellencies of our created dignity Votes: 0

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time. Votes: 0

...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture. Votes: 0

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people. Votes: 0

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships. Votes: 0

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going. Votes: 0

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going. Votes: 0

The great need to grasp principles had caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless persuits. Votes: 0

I take it to be true that pure thought can grasp the real, as the ancients had dreamed. Votes: 0

Who am I? The sum of your dreams, the thrill you refuse to grasp, the unknown you fear. Votes: 0

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning. Votes: 0

Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp. Votes: 0

You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life. Votes: 0

I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it. Votes: 0

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. Votes: 0

Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp. Votes: 0

Strictly has just given me a real zest for life. Life is so short. We should all grasp it. Votes: 0

With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy. Votes: 0

He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave. Votes: 0

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it. Votes: 0

A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things. Votes: 0

Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' Talk is clouds, Table Talk is smoke." Les Miserables Votes: 0

If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar. Votes: 0

You never truly understand what you are missing until you have it in your grasp and push it away. Votes: 0

Maybe that was the price of loving someone: You lost your grasp of where they ended and you began. Votes: 0

And it is through conflict that God induces the believer to seek and to grasp total triumph in Christ. Votes: 0

Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp. Votes: 0

If a palmist grasp my palm, and look into it, without seeing a single line, what would he read? Votes: 0

I didn't grasp that desire and duty could rival each other, least of all that they most often did. Votes: 0

I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things. Votes: 0

I felt my true, unworthy self to be far away from his clutching grasp, hidden from his admiring gaze. Votes: 0

I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell. Votes: 0

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. Votes: 0

Success is within reach of all people, but you can grasp it only when you realise the power within you. Votes: 0

Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it. Votes: 0

What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings. Votes: 0

I try to grasp the colour of my blood and all I feel is life slipping through the colourless veins. Votes: 0

If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing. Votes: 0

I really believe that the past is beyond our grasp and what is essential about the past is something unspeakable. Votes: 0

Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers. Votes: 0

The key to understanding the answer to any questions about guidance is having a clear grasp of what is three-dimensional. Votes: 0

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications. Votes: 0

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision. Votes: 0

The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love Votes: 0

People may not be impressed by our theological grasp, but they may be impressed by our expressions of practical godliness. Votes: 0

Some pain has no relief,it can only be sealed You can grasp the wound to feel the scar unhealed. Votes: 0

Love is the hardest thing to grasp. You have to seize it at once, else it may be too late. Votes: 0

Engage your life with enthusiasm; grasp your life aggressively and squeeze from it every drop of excitement, satisfaction, and joy. Votes: 0

Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes. Votes: 0

Your reality, Sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever! Votes: 0

My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it. Votes: 0

Do not search for SUCCESS off in the distance, but instead recognize it and grasp it right where you are! Votes: 0

Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well. Votes: 0

Out of routine comes inspiration. That's the idea, anyway. To grasp what's exceptional, you first have to know what's routine. Votes: 0

Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not. Votes: 0

It’s in the environment of worship that we learn things that go way beyond what our intellect can grasp Votes: 0

We only fully grasp the gospel when we understand, as Paul did, that we are the worst sinner we know Votes: 0

Give yourself permission to shoot for something that seems totally beyond your grasp. You may be surprised at your capabilities Votes: 0

Humans are about to grasp basic substances of all creations. When that moment comes, life or death are no longer matters." Votes: 0

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves. Votes: 0

The difference between a GOP convention and Comic-Con is that the people at Comic-Con have a much firmer grasp of reality. Votes: 0

To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze. Votes: 0

Humans are about to grasp basic substances of all creations. When that moment comes, life or death are no longer matters. Votes: 0

A little bit of fear means you are doing something worth doing--you are stretching...You are going outside your immediate grasp. Votes: 0

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves. Votes: 0

Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style. Votes: 0

We are cosmic traitors. We must recognize this problem within ourselves if we are to grasp the necessity of the cross. Votes: 0

The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent. Votes: 0

It's freeing, to think that there's always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language. Votes: 0

How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them. Votes: 0

Americans know that we cannot tax and spend our way out of a recession, yet Democrats can't grasp this simple fact. Votes: 0

Let me go!" I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp. "I can't," he says. Votes: 0

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. Votes: 0

We have to grasp not only the Know-How but also 'Know Why', if we want to master the Toyota Production System. Votes: 0

That others grasp what I have in mind seems unessential, at least as long as they have something else in theirs. Votes: 0

Americans know that we cannot tax and spend our way out of a recession, yet Democrats cant grasp this simple fact. Votes: 0

Imagination can help you reach into the heavens to grasp an idea, bring it down to earth, and make it work. Votes: 0

If this world could only grasp the power of forgiveness. Being able to forgive someone breaks the cycle of bitterness and vengeance Votes: 0

Don't just reach for the stars. Grab a hold of one, grasp it tightly, and pull it into your heart and soul. Votes: 0

When you would think, "what was the use of it," you'll remember something you can't grasp and you'll wonder what it was. Votes: 0

She pulled away from Eric's grasp, knelt before Brian and looked up at him."Let me suck you off," she said. "Please. Votes: 0

It's beyond the grasp of anyone's memory to recall conversations in kind of [memoir] detail. So it's fake. It's all made up. Votes: 0

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another person, not with the mind, not even with the heart. Votes: 0

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema. Votes: 0

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. Votes: 0

To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul. Votes: 0

The final goal ... is to grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world. Votes: 0

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition. Votes: 0

God exists outside of time, and since we are within time, there is no way we will ever totally grasp that concept. Votes: 0

No matter how dim the light filtering through the trees is, you can still try your best to grasp it. -Kaien Cross Votes: 0

To someone who could grasp the Universe from a unified standpoint the entire creation would appear as a unique truth and necessity. Votes: 0

We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow. Votes: 0

Politicians have such large egos that it usually takes them an inordinately long time to grasp when they've become a pathetic joke. Votes: 0

Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp. Votes: 0

The Palestinian state is within our grasp. Soon the Palestinian flag will fly on the walls, the minarets and the cathedrals of Jerusalem. Votes: 0

Regimented minds cannot grasp the concept of confrontation as an open exchange of major differences with a view to settlement through genuine dialogue. Votes: 0

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project Votes: 0

We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off. Votes: 0

I am puzzled that Conway Morris apparently doesn't grasp the equally strong (and inevitable) personal preferences embedded in his own view of life. Votes: 0

We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty. Votes: 0

Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul. Votes: 0

The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection. Votes: 0

There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly. Votes: 0

Perhaps I'm just too painstaking a type of person, but I can't grasp much of anything without putting down my thoughts in writing. Votes: 0

As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics. Votes: 0

Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe. Votes: 0

No other content company has Sony's intuitive grasp of technology and no other company has Sony's intimate understanding of the demands of content. Votes: 0

When you are surrounded by four people, one of them smiling, taunting, demanding, terrorizing, you don't have a complete grasp or perfect vision. Votes: 0

What vitiates entirely the socialists economic critique of capitalism is their failure to grasp the sovereignty of the consumers in the market economy. Votes: 0

Beware as you get the octopus on board. Suddenly he relaxes his grasp, and shhots out a jet of ink, which smarts considerably. Votes: 0

I don't grasp things this early in the day. I mean, I hear voices, all right, but I can't pick out the verbs. Votes: 0

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready. Votes: 0

Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming. Votes: 0

I'm sure some people have an absolute grasp of where they are in their careers. I just don't think about it that much. Votes: 0

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present. Votes: 0

An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness. Votes: 0

Beyond our grasp, He chose to come within our grasp. Existing before time began, He began to exist at a moment in time. Votes: 0

At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place. Votes: 0

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart. Votes: 0

This is perhaps the hardest truth of any to grasp. Do we wake up every morning amazed that we are loved by God? Votes: 0

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. Votes: 0

I say that there is nothing deficient about our current theoretical grasp of mind-brain identities. The problem is only that they are counter-intuitive. Votes: 0

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. Votes: 0

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment. Votes: 0

It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song. Votes: 0

Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself. Votes: 0

One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do. Votes: 0

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless. Votes: 0

There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor. Votes: 0

At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature! Votes: 0

The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me. Votes: 0

Well understand this! If you want to join our sales team; I don't need pillion riders; I need high drivers who grasp the handle-bars. Votes: 0

We reach ecstasy by a contestation of knowledge. Were I to stop at ecstasy and grasp it, in the end I would define it. Votes: 0

The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity. Votes: 0

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush. Votes: 0

Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp. Votes: 0

Having been born into the house of a warrior, one's intentions should be to grasp the long and the short swords and to die. Votes: 0

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer. Votes: 0

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim. Votes: 0

You've always had a good grasp on what's right and wrong. You just have a hard time admitting that sometimes you choose the wrong. Votes: 0

It is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially educated people. Votes: 0

When people are rushed, they're stressed and you greatly increase the likelihood of being punitive and unilateral just because you're trying to grasp control. Votes: 0

The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness. Votes: 0

The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise. Votes: 0

But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed. Votes: 0

Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes. Votes: 0

People are learning to grasp the diversity of nature, to understand its unifying principles and to sweep away the hierarchies and see the real connections. Votes: 0

To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere. Votes: 0

Those who grasp the whole, will also comprehend all parts of that whole, even when immediate technical understanding is lacking, and recognize and marshal these. Votes: 0

Your task it is, amid confusion, rush, and noise, to grasp the lasting, calm and meaningful, and finding it anew, to hold and treasure it. Votes: 0

I am a student of universal spiritual principles, and I read theology and spiritual writings, so my grasp of basic spiritual principles is fairly good. Votes: 0

The Lord's hand in in our lives; if we will but feel for it, in the darkness, we can grasp it and be lifted thereby. Votes: 0

His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. Votes: 0

So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less. Votes: 0

Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker's beak making holes in tree trunks! Votes: 0

When once the mind has raised itself to grasp and to delight in excellence, those who love most will be found to love most wisely. Votes: 0

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing. Votes: 0

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all. Votes: 0

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind. Votes: 0

I know what you're doing, though.""I'm glad somebody knows what I'm about, because I seem to have lost my own grasp of it entirely. Votes: 0

The end is not the reward; the path you take, the emotions that course through you as you grasp life - that is the reward. Votes: 0

Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope. Votes: 0

And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws. Votes: 0

The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can’t grasp them. There is a pattern in creation. Votes: 0

Don't knock finding nemo," Xavier teased, taking the DVD from my grasp. "It's a modern classic." "Is it seriously about fish?" "Yeah, but really cool fish. Votes: 0

It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad. Votes: 0

Your success in life does not altogether depend on ability and training; it also depends on your determination to grasp opportunities that are presented to you. Votes: 0

When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others. Votes: 0

Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th. Votes: 0

I try to begin with a strong grasp of my characters. Even if it's schematic, I need it clear in my head who these people are. Votes: 0

There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by. Votes: 0

Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them? Votes: 0

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. Votes: 0

Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover. Votes: 0

My worst days are still pretty good days. That's something I might lose in the moment sometimes, but I have a pretty good grasp of it. Votes: 0

The other side is beyond knowing. You cannot know what you experience on the other side, here. Wisdom is beyond the grasp of the conscious mind. Votes: 0

One by one the sands are flowing, One by one the moments fall; Some are coming, some are going; Do not strive to grasp them all. Votes: 0

Mine the long night The secret place Where lovers meet In long embrace In purple dark In silvered kiss Forget the world And grasp your bliss Votes: 0

The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one's grasp just when you want to hold onto them for as long as possible. Votes: 0

The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible. Votes: 0

All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble. Votes: 0

Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles. Votes: 0

Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles. Votes: 0

Thousands of important and intelligent men have never been able to grasp the principle of comparative advantage or believe it even after it was explained to them Votes: 0

We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever. Votes: 0

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs. Votes: 0

I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that. Votes: 0

Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them. Votes: 0

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp. Votes: 0

A nation that cannot preserve itself ought to die, and it will die - die in the grasp of the evils it is too feeble to overthrow Votes: 0

There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize. Votes: 0

Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic school study is a different thing. I can't quite grasp that. Votes: 0

If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and what they're chasing. Votes: 0

In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue before we can either define it or grasp its impact. Votes: 0

The Occident has never found it easy to grasp the strange netherworld of spirits that followers of Islam universally believe exist in a realm overlaid our own. Votes: 0

You hear people say it all the time, how life changes so drastically. But you can't possibly grasp how beautiful that is until you have your child. Votes: 0

The world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things. And some possible job skills. Votes: 0

They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness. Votes: 0

Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do. Votes: 0

Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible "“ and I make use of painting to render thoughts visible. Votes: 0

The exchange of words is a lot like a virtual handshake. Is the writer's grasp of the language strong and bold? Are the words gripping? Direct? Inventive? Sincere? Votes: 0

Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune. Votes: 0

I look down at our linked fingers as I loosen my grasp, but he regains his grip on me. "No, don't let go of me," he says. Votes: 0

People should allow themselves the opportunity to really know what the unity of God means. To grasp a part of the nondivisible union is to grasp the whole. Votes: 0

Everything either is, was or will be. Time doesn't really exist. It's just something we have made up that makes it easier for us to grasp the universe. Votes: 0

He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own. Votes: 0

No matter how many times you have failed you must keep going forward. Only when you have become humble will you begin to grasp the meaning of life. Votes: 0

A person comes into the world with a fist-and a grasp. Yes, we are built to fight one another, but also to embrace. How cleverly we are created. Votes: 0

It is astonishing that human brains, which evolved to cope with the everyday world, have been able to grasp the counterintuitive mysteries of the cosmos and the quantum. Votes: 0

I am not an objective reporter. I prefer to go further, to the unstated things of our existence. What I can't understand and grasp seems to lead me. Votes: 0

Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled beyond our grasp. Votes: 0

Physics is an attempt conceptually to grasp reality as something that is considered to be independent of its being observed. In this sense one speaks of physical reality. Votes: 0

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind. Votes: 0

We have to have a revolution so that all young people grasp empathy and practice it. This is the most fundamental revolution that we have to get through. Votes: 0

I think a good entrepreneur has a very clear grasp of what the goal is, an unwavering sense of the goal, an utterly agile approach of getting there. Votes: 0

The public has yet to see TV as TV. Broadcasters have no awareness of its potential. The movie people are just beginning to get a grasp on film. Votes: 0

Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure. Votes: 0

have spent many years holding so tightly to things - wants, desires, etc. - but inevitably, they or something even better only arrives when I release the grasp. Votes: 0

Studies indicate that most of young adults struggle to grasp even the most basic financial principles that will allow them to manage money and prepare for their future. Votes: 0

Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it? Votes: 0

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience. Votes: 0

Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp. Votes: 0

News reports can overwhelm us. We can be appalled, we can sympathise. But what is hard to grasp is the sense that, at this moment, people are working, organising... Votes: 0

She was only beginning to grasp the geometry lessons that had perplexed her in junior high, the revelation that the world was full of infinite planes that never intersect." Votes: 0

Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe. Votes: 0

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished. Votes: 0

Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean. Votes: 0

Prospective teachers may read about the science of education, but they'll only grasp the art in their early years by seeing it practiced and having it commended to them. Votes: 0

The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness. Votes: 0

Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end, you may get a thumb bit off. Votes: 0

It really is not that complicated, I just don’t understand HOW people don’t grasp the concept of ‘Free Market’, and why left alone, it WORKS! Votes: 0

Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if you get it, it's great, and if you don't, it's a disaster. Votes: 0

There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. -(from "The Bicentennial Man) story) Votes: 0

If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to have within their grasp. Votes: 0

I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time. Votes: 0

We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves. Votes: 0

Give a portion of your money to others. By releasing an anxious grasp on your money, you will open yourself to receive all that is meant to be yours. Votes: 0

If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread. Votes: 0

Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt. Votes: 0

It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it is almost within the grasp. Votes: 0

I am guided by the same intelligence and inspired by the same imagination which scatters the moon beams across the waves and holds the forces of nature in it's grasp. Votes: 0

I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp...Then I'd find another one. Votes: 0

When I watch myself on camera, in any capacity - being interviewed, performing, 20 years ago or yesterday - there's a part of me that really doesn't grasp that it's me. Votes: 0

But when to-morrow comes, yesterday's morrow will have been already spent: and lo! a fresh morrow will be for ever making away with our years, each just beyond our grasp. Votes: 0

I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film. Votes: 0

Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp. Votes: 0

I think that Mary Poppins needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film. Votes: 0

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 this is closer to reality. Votes: 0

The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses ... Votes: 0

Nixon is a strong leader with a good grasp of the world's problems. He knows that the only way to argue with the communists is from a position of strength. Votes: 0

To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time. Votes: 0

Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot grasp it, we conclude it to be nothing. Votes: 0

Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound. Votes: 0

We must re-grasp the idea of church membership as being the membership of the body of Christ and as the biggest honour which can come man's way in this world. Votes: 0

Precious Saviour! come in spirit, and lay Thy strong, gentle grasp of love on our dear boys and girls, and keep these our lambs from the fangs of the wolf. Votes: 0

When you fall, never get up without gaining anything. Always find something on the way up. If there are only rocks, grasp one to throw in order to defend yourself. Votes: 0

Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today.... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them. Votes: 0

No cowboy songs, no hoedowns. It's a more serious piece. Yet every bar of 'Appalachian Spring' is clear, clean, tonal, intelligible - great music that anyone can grasp at first hearing. Votes: 0

It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly when it involves the moral character of another person.. Votes: 0

Theology is faith seeking understanding, but understanding is more than theoretical. If we really grasp who and where we are as disciples, we should know how to live out our faith. Votes: 0

I think that we, as human beings, always need to conquer our fears and reach beyond our grasp and I think it's very important that we don't become complacent or stagnant. Votes: 0

Let me put it more precisely: The ability to give birth is a natural characteristic. In the same way, everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason. Votes: 0

We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin. Votes: 0

Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind is the standard of the man. Votes: 0

If you would get a contented life, do not grasp too much of the world, do not take in more of the business of the world than God calls you to. Votes: 0

The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but it will never feel right to us. Votes: 0

I don't know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless immigrants we turn our plots into symbols of stability. Votes: 0

I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp. Votes: 0

One of the greatest feelings in the world is knowing that we as individuals can make a difference. Ending hunger in America is a goal that is literally within our grasp. Votes: 0

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk. Votes: 0

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. Votes: 0

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. Votes: 0

Frank Sinatra taught me how to do him. It took me seven years to master him. He would tell me, tap your foot, Rich, and don't forget to grasp your sleeve. Votes: 0

There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed after the fact, in one's vision of the past. Votes: 0

In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. Votes: 0

Harry and I have been sweethearts and married more than forty years - and no matter where I was, when I put out my hand Harry's was there to grasp it. Votes: 0

Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants to obtain a solid grasp and a perfect command. Votes: 0

Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. Votes: 0

Kellan's hand found hers, took it into his strong grasp. "There," he said, pressing a kiss to the center of her palm. "I've got you, Mouse." "Yes, you do," she replied. Votes: 0

The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you - is to die soon. Votes: 0

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion. Votes: 0

Always, always lead by example. Those whom you lead will be quick to grasp the true identity of a truly professional NCO and will be more willing to follow, obey and persevere. Votes: 0

He [Deng Xiaoping] said that he did not understand why we failed to grasp that the alternative was not democracy, but total chaos and risking all the reforms that had been achieved. Votes: 0

Truth, meanwhile, was a weaponthat even a damaged fist could still grasp and wield. It was a remarkably versatile commodity; it could be traded, or help serve an end, or produce aprofit. Votes: 0

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing. Votes: 0

Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you. Votes: 0

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor. Votes: 0

... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply. Votes: 0

To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is within the hands and grasp of the pianist. Votes: 0

It's amazing how the things you remember forever are the things you'd rather forget and the things you desperately want to grasp onto seem to slip away like sand in the wind. Votes: 0

We have lost faith in the formal powers of the mind, not, as some suppose, because our universe is too difficult to grasp, but because we lack the inner principle of order. Votes: 0

There was nothing mean about his voice. In fact it was almost too nice. Like she was too dim to grasp whatever was so obvious to him. Which made her absolutely furious. Votes: 0

Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go? Votes: 0

Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire Would we not shatter it to bits-and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire? Votes: 0

I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp. Votes: 0

It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how to think historically in the first place. Votes: 0

I love information. I want to stay current. I don't want to be under-informed. But I'm busy. Sometimes, I need an instant overview of a situation that I can grasp in a second. Votes: 0

Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment. Votes: 0

We suffer from the illusion that the faster we run, the more likely we are to grasp happiness. The truth is that the velocity necessary for success rarely exceeds the rate of reflection. Votes: 0

John Kennedy really did extend the reach of the American people and said, like Lincoln said in a way, that our reach is farther than our grasp - and we should aim high. Votes: 0

The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the new concept in terms of ideas which existed before. Votes: 0

The world that is in me is the only world I have by which to grasp the world outside and as I write fiction, it is the chart by which I must steer. Votes: 0

The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a figure. Votes: 0

Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing. Votes: 0

In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity (architecture). Votes: 0

As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like trying to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off. Votes: 0

Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place"“ a single book written from different stages of your ability. Votes: 0

That's the beauty of song writing. You never know when inspiration will come or how it will hit, you just gotta kinda grasp a hold of it and make sense of it somehow. Votes: 0

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order. Votes: 0

In a moment of grace, we can grasp eternity in the palm of our hand. This is the gift given to creative individuals who can identify with the mysteries of life through art. Votes: 0

When we look at thing, we must examine its essence and treat its appearance merely as an usher at the threshold, we must, once we cross the threshold, grasp the essence of the thing. Votes: 0

We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is. Votes: 0

When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it. Votes: 0

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me.. Votes: 0

Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home. Votes: 0

If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt. Votes: 0

Primates are the only animals on the face of the earth that can taste sweet and see color. We were designed by nature to see, grasp, eat, and enjoy the flavor of colorful, sweet fruits. Votes: 0

She was my friend and I loved her and relied on her, even though there were days when her moodiness and fragility frightened me, because they reminded me of my own tenuous grasp on life. Votes: 0

Let your mind and soul be at ease. Don't grasp and grab for the magic and miracles. When you reside in that place of stillness, the joy, miracles, and magic you're seeking will find you. Votes: 0

If we must “feel” God's presence before we believe he is with us, we again reduce God to our ability to grasp him, making him an idol instead of acknowledging him as God. Votes: 0

The time will come that humans will be able to grasp the true essence of matter, so they will no longer need their physical bodies in order to live and to exist in this universe. Votes: 0