Quotes About Grasp

Albert seized it and put it victoriously into his buttonhole

He who has set his heart exclusively upon the pursuit of worldly welfare is always i a hurry, for he has but a limited time at his disposal to reach, to grasp, and to enjoy it.

She held on to two sides of an hourglass and wondered how this could be possible. The time she'd had alone had been gravitationally circumscribed by when her attachments would pull her back. And they had pulled now – doublefisted.

But, in this life, we have too few chances of happiness to throw any away.

Do you wish to roam farther and farther?See! The Good lies so near.Only learn to seize good fortune,For good fortune's always here.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Life is moments going by, but if you don't grab them, they're gone. For a long time, the only moments that were available were bad ones. So now I make sure to grab the good ones.

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

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

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

I feel like that's the reason a lot of pop music doesn't have that grasp that other forms of music do, because it's more rooted in only the happier aspects of life - there's not really a connection.

If Mr. Hauser finds that he is concerned with entities in history which constantly elude his grasp, if he finds that the bourgeoisie and the aristocracy, rationalism and subjectivism constantly seem to change places in his field of vision, he should ask himself whether he is looking through a telescope or a kaleidoscope.

Tell her the joyous time will not be stayedUnlesse she do him by the forelock take.

Such things for example as the grasp of a child's hand in your own, the flavor of an apple, the embrace of friend or lover, the silk of a girl's thigh, the sunlight on rock and leaves, the feel of music, the bark of a tree, the abrasion of granite and sand, the plunge of clear water into a pool, the face of the wind—what else is there? What else do we need?

A bird in the hand is worth plucking, frying, and sticking between two bits of bread.

To the person who seizes two things, one always slips from his grasp!

Repentance, the refashioning of the heart has begun and the kingdom of God—the gratefully carefree life of children—has come within your grasp at last and you are about to reach out and take possession of it.

O tempo é algo escorregadio: segure com firmeza, ou seu encadeamento pode escoar de suas mãos para sempre.

The whole thing feels like a pool of water that I'm trying to hold in my hands.

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

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

You can research until you're falling asleep, but that still doesn't mean you're really fluent in the material.

Love one another, Jesus said. Sometimes it took a lifetime to learn how. Sometimes it took someone to hit rock bottom to make someone reach up and grasp hold and be lifted from the mire to stand on a firm foundation.

You understand? One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.