Quotes About Grasp

was just, seems like, born knowing how. He can figure

Inglis is full of metaphors about hands because they've been so important to our human development. It'll come in handy, we say. This child's a handful, and This is getting out of hand, or You're in good hands.

Life is too uncertain... You must seize happiness where you find it.

There are two types of people in life - those who get it and those who don't.

The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized.

That's been my sort of aim in life, to never miss an opportunity.

Oh teach me your art to soften his power, to unloose the grasp of his authority, and I will love you as——I believe I cannot love you better than I do; for have you not cast a ray of cheering light upon my dungeon?—Have you not bestowed upon me the only charm of existence that I have known for many and many a tedious day?

Keith closed his fingers tight on Ian's doublet-thinking that a wolf would grasp a cub so, by the scruff, careful to break the skin-and dragged him into an embrace.

I will never possess my hand.

If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it.

When your time comes, you need to grab it with both hands.

I constantly know that showbiz is going to be short-lived, you have to grab every opportunity as well as you can.

It's your glove, your baseball glove. It's got a soul, a memory all its own, and a future that never fades because it has never let go of the grasp the past has on you and so many others.

I make catchy, easy music which the public can grasp easily.

Nobody goes, 'I'm a top 10 fighter. Well, maybe Top 15. I can beat a lot of guys'... Nobody ever says that. That's the thing with having a grasp on reality. I know I'm not the best.

There's opportunities you get that you want to grasp with both hands and you have to cherish them.

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

The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.

I saw how little it weighed on the scale of things whether I lived or died, though my life was precious to me. And of those two thoughts I forged a mood by which I stood ready to grasp each smallest chance to live, yet in which I cared not too much whether I saved myself or not. By that mood, as I think, I did live; it has been so good a friend to me that I have endeavored to wear it ever since, succeeding not always, but often.

Once you discover freedom, you want to capture it, never let it go.

For a long while she lived in the hope that my evident wretchedness would drive me to the commission of suicide; but suicide was not in my nature. I was too completely swayed by the sense that I was in the grasp of unknown forces, to believe in my power of self-release.

Wonder is that possession of the mind that enchants the emotions while never surrendering reason. It is a grasp on reality that does not need constant high points in order to be maintained, nor is it made vulnerable by the low points of life's struggle.

That may be one of the qualities a lot of owners have. They thrive on times that are challenging and changing because you have to grasp the big picture.

Lesson number one, she muttered, love is beyond your grasp. Lesson two: nowhere is it written that you're guaranteed fairness. And three: there's only right and wrong.