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Quotes About Grasp

Too often we don't appreciate the value of something until it has slipped our grasp.
~ Christopher Paolini
his or her hand
~ Troy Denning
Carpe Manga
~ Kurt Cobain
To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.
~ la rochefoucauld iii
And they hooked their fingers around its slender spurs, and pulled.
~ Laini Taylor
Emma had always thought of grief as a claw. The claw of a massive monster you couldn't see, that reached down out of the sky and seized hold of you, punching out your breath, leaving only a pain you couldn't wriggle away from or avoid. You just had to endure it for as long as the claw had you in its grasp.
~ Cassandra Clare
It is in the nature of winds to Snatch and Grasp at things, and Blow Them Away.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Grasp the subject; the words will follow.
~ Cato the Elder
The gods never meant you to live forever, so why spoil they life they did give you? Is a rainbow any less beautiful because it's short-lived? Or because you can't grasp hold of it? Consider, man. Perhaps it is beautiful expressly because of that.
~ Geraldine McCaughrean
as they watched him grasp
~ Gilbert Morris
a única qualidade indispensável a um homem de poder é a capacidade de se apoderar das circunstâncias. Não pretender dirigi-las, mas apoderar-se delas com pulso firme.
~ Giuliano da Empoli
The concern is not that there are many people and few opportunities. It is, there are many opportunities but there are few people who seize them.
~ Goa Kerle
There is no day that one should skip But one should seize, without distrust, The possible with iron grip
~ Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Ripeness and amplitude were the first and most essential ingredients of true comeliness. Men liked to grasp something substantial when in a mood to do so: this was Queen Sollace's experience.
~ Jack Vance
Garner knowledge, by any means possible
~ Jacqueline Carey
Hah, all we poets write a deal about love: but none of us may grasp the word's full meaning until he reflects that this is a passion mighty enough to induce a woman to put up with him.
~ James Branch Cabell
The truth is that we can venture into meditation only in our willingness to be, at times, perplexed. What is more, we must be willing to befriend our perplexity as a way of dying to our futile efforts to grasp the ungraspable depths that meditation invites us to discover. It
~ James Finley
Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.
~ Carl Orff
The two things I understand best are stand-up comedy and martial arts. And those things require an ultimate grasp of the truth. You have to be objective about your skills and abilities to compete in both.
~ Joe Rogan
When we launched a new company, I reviewed the ads and marketing materials and asked those presenting the campaign to read everything aloud to test the phrasing and concept. If I could grasp it quickly, then it passed with muster. We would get our message across only if it was understandable at first glance.
~ Richard Branson
I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
~ Van Morrison
If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.
~ Joanna Lumley
A poet is someone whose words can grasp & pull the thread of a person's soul & make them unravel with delight.
~ Curtis Tyrone Jones
The night is Ours. Rejoicing in the ethereal realms where We are kings. Blessed souls of forgotten immortality. They fear Us in every grasp.
~ Luis Marques