Quotes About Grasp

How well we manage the grave dilemmas confronting us now and in the future may depend on how well we grasp the buried truths of our past." (The Age of Acquiescence, pg 13)

At the age of twenty, I failed to grasp the difference between guilt, which can almost always be atoned for, and grief, which can only be borne.

Don't let your opportunities slip away.

Headline writers love the phrase 'Power Grab,' but you can't really grab it, can you? Power is a greased watermelon, a wisp of smoke, difficult to grasp, harder to hold, impossible to control while getting both feet down in bounds.

But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.

Mit Zähnen und Fäusten muss man den Genuss des Vergnügungen des Lebens festhalten, welche uns unsre Jahre, eins nach dem andern, mit starken Klauen wegreißen.

We can perceive millions of things simultaneously, but using our attention, we can hold whatever we want to perceive in the foreground of our mind.

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.

Eternity is always presented to us as an idea that we can't grasp, as something enormous, enormous! Why does it have to be enormous? All of a sudden, instead of all that, imagine there'll be a little room, something like a country bathhouse, sooty, with spiders in all the corners, and that's the whole of eternity. You know, I sometimes imagine it like that.

I cannot grasp the magnitude of your evil" "Proof that you lack imagination

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp with too much force is to be taken over by power, thus becoming its victim. —Bene Gesserit Axiom

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp with too much force is to be taken over by power, thus becoming its victim.

To understand means to be capable of doing.'(Goethè)

To grow in your passion for what Jesus has done, increase your understanding of what He has done. Never be content with your grasp of the gospel. The gospel is life-permeating, world-altering, universe-changing truth. It has more facets than any diamond. Its depths man will never exhaust.

One of the first lessons that I hope you grasp is that woven into meaningful literature, so tightly that it can't be separated, is a telling lesson, even in stories as short as this one. Always? I ask. Always! she confirms. Good stories teach!

Louis-Cesare. It's good to finally have you in hand.

Dude, you gotta hug it with both arms and legs and hold on tight! The present is all we've got. That's why they call it a present!

To be radical is to grasp things by the root.

The highest function of humanity is belief, that activity of spirit that proceeds upon the pathway of reason, until it comes to some great promontory, and then spreads its wings, and upon the basis of its earlier journeying, takes eternity into its grasp.

And she grasps it because it's her fate.

Throughout his life, Sam had hated being told to 'fight,' as if sickness were a character failing. Illness could not be defeated no matter how hard you fought, and pain, once it had you in its grasp, was transformational.

Throughout his life, Sam had hated being told to "fight," as if sickness were a character failing. Illness could not be defeated, no matter how hard you fought, and pain, once it had you in its grasp, was transformational

Alice Montague was that rarest of flowers, a beautiful woman of integrity. Someone he might even be able to trust, in time. He had searched the world for such a creature. He had her in his grasp. How could he possibly let her slip through his fingers? He could not. He could not help himself.

Fun was far more difficult to get a handle on than zeal.