Quotes of Grasp - somelinesforyou

“ I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind. ”

- St. Bernard

“ Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip. ”

- Barbara Tuchman

“ Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch. ”

- Corrie ten Boom

“ One understands only in proportion to becoming himself that which he understands. ”

- Soren Kierkegaard

“ The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest. ”

- Confucius

“ The mind, like the dyer's hand, is colored by what it holds. ”

- Unknown

“ Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ I liked things better when I didn't understand them. ”

- Bill Watterson

“ He has to increase his awareness a little bit, but he's pretty much an all-purpose guy,... He'll block. He'll catch. Hopefully he'll get a little better feel for the running as we go. ”

- Bill Parcells

“ There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds. ”

- Allen Boyd

“ Grab your oars and clutch your souls! ”

- Herman Melville

“ He's made as many clutch shots as anybody who has ever played this game. ”

- Larry Bird

“ We have a great new CEO. I've known him a decade and he understands broadcasting. He understands the creation of product. ”

- Michael Eisner

“ The novel we sit down to write, and the one we end up writing may be very different, just as the Jesus we grasp and the Jesus who grasps us may also differ. ”

- Madeleine L’Engle

“ The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. ”

- Doug Larson

“ Grasp the subject, the words will follow. ”

- Cato the Elder

“ The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep. ”

- Chuang tzu

“ Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“ We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. ”

- William James

“ Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp - or what's a heaven for? ”

- Robert Browning

“ The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. ”

- John Berry

“ I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. ”

- Viktor E. Frankl

“ Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. ”

- Mao Tse Tung

“ A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless. ”

- Charles de Gaulle

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

- Laurence Sterne

“ Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp. ”

- Jean Dubuffet

“ Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite. ”

- Paul Tillich

“ Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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