Quotes About Grasp

When you are so close to something, it's like a bar of soap - if someone says hold on to it, the harder you squeeze, the quicker it pops out of your hand.

I squeeze like an anaconda.

Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.

...good luck waits to come to that man who accepts opportunity.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it is almost within the grasp.

Corporations haven't limited their grasp to the First Amendment; pretty much any and virtually every amendment that could be used to further corporate interests has been fair game.

Firstly, indeed, because man is directed to God, as to an end that surpasses the grasp of his reason: "The eye hath not seen, O God, besides Thee, what things Thou hast prepared for them that wait for Thee" (Isa. 66:4). But the end must first be known by men who are to direct their thoughts and actions to the end.

Don't read with your eyes.

universe in which time and space had been ruled out because time and space were only put there, in the first place, to make it impossible for anyone to grasp the universe.

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

I have a very firm grasp on reality — I can reach out and strangle it any time.

There is a Kretan proverb that says that peace is always "over there", but that is no longer true: it is within our grasp.

Dans toutes les vies, même les plus merdeuses, le ciel te donne au moins une fois une vraie chance de faire basculer ton destin. Le kairos, c'est la capacité à savoir saisir cette perche que la vie te tend.

It was so strange to realize how it was only at this brink of the chasm, threshold of the dark or the god's holy light, that one could grasp and accept one's own heart's yearning for more of the world. For life.

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

The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a little in the course of taking hold of it.

Joy it is in everything and anything we might experience; God has placed it all around us... My point is that you do not need me or anyone else around to bring this new kind of light in your life. It is simply waiting out there for you to grasp it, and all you have to do is reach for it. The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.

By thinking of things you could understand them.

I was never a coward, he says irritably, struggling out of my grasp. I was just sensible.

Jacob didn't say "Seize the day," he said "Seize what's been handed you." Make smart decisions. Make decisions because—he said it again—life is a temporary situation.

He might have reached for that