Quotes About Grasp

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.

Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.

people grasp at political authoritarianism in the desperate need to be relieved of anxiety.

J'étais tellement heureux que je voulais mourir parce que le bonheur il faut le saisir pendant qu'il est là.

The book. Calming object. Held in the hand.

Forget seizing the moment. Seize the opportunity.

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.

My grasp tightens and becomes acute in moments of loss: I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand.

Those who try to grasp on to the mystery will never succeed. Only those who let it slip their fingers will come to know it, and hear its secrets

I still had the craving that I had given in to all summer long when I had lived on books, to have the reach to grasp both ends of the frame and turn the big image-taking glass to any scene of the world.

You must, in studying Nature, always consider both each single thing and the whole: nothing is inside and nothing is outside, for what is within is without. Make haste, then, to grasp this holy mystery which is public knowledge. Rejoice in the true illusion, in the serious game: no living thing is a unity, it is always manifold.

Becoming sufficiently familiar with something is a substitute for understanding it.

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

How can finite grasp infinity

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

Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized.

This life is mine because of good luck. And because I reached out and took it.

Saw life steadily and saw it whole.

Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspireTo grasp this Sorry Scheme of Things entire,Would not we shatter it to bits—and thenRemold it nearer to the Heart's Desire!

The great religions are also, and tragically, sources of ceaseless and unnecessary suffering. They are impediments to the grasp of reality needed to solve most social problems in the real world.

We cannot properly grasp the dynamics of human social life unless we understand the role that intoxicants have played in making civilization possible.

Here's the thing about time: If you can't make the most out of any given moment, then you don't deserve a single extra second.

All at once I found myself standing there gazing down that enchanted boulevard in the blue, blue evening. Everything seemed to fall into place. Here was all the gaiety and glory and sparkle I knew was going to be life if I could just grasp it.

It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing.