Quotes About Grasp

over her sides, gripping, then

The human mind ... operates by association. With one item in its grasp, it snaps instantly to the next that is suggested by the association of thoughts, in accordance with some intricate web of trails carried by the cells of the brain.

very easy to read, but very hard to 'read well

If your grip on coins of life is not strong enough than they will gradually slip away from your hands, for surely one day you will find that your hands are empty

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

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?

grip my arm. I willed the old

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it. ~ H.G.Wells

Then I realized he was still holding my hand.

That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.

passion is like sand. It disappears no matter how tightly one tries to hold on to it.

As soon as we stopped sleeping with our cousins and build walls, temples and a few decent nightclubs, society became too complex for any one person to grasp all at once, and thus bureaucracy was born. A bureaucracy breaks the complexity down into a series of interlocking systems. You don't need to know how the systems fit together, or even what function your bit of the system has, you just perform your bit and the whole machine creaks on.

We chase wild dreams and long for all that eludes us, when the greatest joys are within our grasp, if we can only recognize them.

I've tried so far to learn as much as possible. I think I've got a good grasp of what a hockey GM needs to do.

Did I snore again last night?' -'You solidified your grasp on the all-time women's championship. You're ready to compete at the next level.

He's a superior sort of journalist—they call them diplomatic correspondents. He gets hold of an idea and then alters every situation to fit the idea.

dropped her hands, which were clenched

I knew that my life, there and then, was no more than a handful of sand squeezed into my clenched fist.

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.

Palace offered me the opportunity to come and play and I took it with both hands.

She had been trying hourly to ensure that this new friendship remained such, to be certain that it would not slip out of the careful grasp of her fingers and into the darker champers of her heart.

strength and purpose come from you. Direct our steps today, and turn us from the perishable things at which we grasp. Cast your light upon us so that our lives may bear witness to the light of Christ. Amen.

I don't know how I absorb things, but I do. I just absorb them. I don't over read the script, and I don't really ever spend much time learning it.

to leap into it and hold on, connecting everything