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Schopenhauer writes about marriage. He says getting married is like grasping blind into a sack of snakes and hoping to find an eel.
— Laura Moriarty
Radical simply means grasping things at the root.
— Angela Y. Davis
One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.
— Frank Herbert
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
— Charles De Gaulle
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
— Mencius
Truth comes to us in resemblance, in shade. In moonlight. In grasping what exists through what we cannot make exist.
— Patricia Storace
It was nonsense to talk about its being a sacrifice to come there; for if it were, they would not see so many grasping to be members of Congress.
— David Crockett
Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.
— Ambrose Bierce
You let go of my hand to hold on to my heart
Distance grasps us tight
now that we are apart — Munia Khan
Bitch," he growls, immediately grasping for the world that most men do when they encounter a woman they can't control.
— Kevin Hearne
We were too greedy, grasping for immortality too soon. Perhaps if we had only been patient, content to wait, we would all have forever in the end.
— Jessica Khoury
I suddenly felt my spirit expand, for I was capable of grasping the utter beauty of the trees.
— Muriel Barbery
The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.
— Murray Rothbard
Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction.
— Stephen Kinzer
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[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Ladies and Felines," he stated grandly, grasping the doorknob, "Welcome to Tir Na Nog. Land of endless winter and shitloads of snow.
— Julie Kagawa
By renouncing samsara, we renounce our habitual grasping, unhappy minds. And by renouncing samsara, we embrace our potential for enlightenment.
— Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.
— Matt Taibbi
Simply allow your thoughts and experiences to come and go, without ever grasping at them.
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
There's nothing on earth like the feel of someone who loves you grasping your hand in the dark when you're lost and afraid
— Mia Sheridan
Run was a song about grasping for happiness just out of reach, about endless, temporary good-byes. A song only a ghost should sing.
— Jeri Smith-Ready
We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.
— Charlie Munger
Give up grasping and see things as they are. THE SEVENTH DALAI LAMA
— Lama Surya Das
What turns you on more?" he asks, his hands grasping my thighs as he pulls me up. "The fighting or the fucking?
— J.M. Darhower
Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.
— Dave Barry
And so, they went in circles through the trees and inside themselves, searching and reaching for things just beyond grasping.
— Tenaya Jayne
Establish your mind as necessary for knowledge and remembrance. Establish a mind free of grasping to anything.
— Gautama Buddha
Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.
— Swami Vivekananda
Gladly I close this festive day, Grasping the altar's hallow'd horn; My slips and faults are washed away, The Lamb has all my trespass borne.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Like a person in a storm desperately grasping at a lamppost, he clung to his daily routine.
— Haruki Murakami
He drank life from these breasts now dry, and he took his first steps in this garden, grasping these fingers that are now like trembling reeds.
— Kahlil Gibran
You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.
— Deepak Chopra
People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.
— George Bernard Shaw
We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep going.
— Ace Antonio Hall
The only cause of happiness is love. The only cause of suffering is self grasping.
— Garchen Rinpoche
It is impossible to grasp the fullness of God without grasping the fullness of the love of Christ.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Pride and folly, they go together like two tightly grasping hands.
— Patrick Rothfuss
The pacification of all cognitive grasping and the pacification of conceptual proliferation are peace.
— Nagarjuna
Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.
— Harvey Cox
It wasn't just pretending everything was fine or grasping at normalcy, but grabbing it by the ears and making it my bitch.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
Far more difficult than implementing change is figuring out what works, understanding why it works, grasping when to change, and knowing when not to.
— James C. Collins
Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.
— Immanuel Kant
Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems.
— Henry David Thoreau
Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.
— James Allen
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
— Elizabeth Bowen
Being lost without grasping the rather obvious fact that we are lost is by far the best guarantee we have that we're going to stay lost.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Once in a lifetime "True love" comes in your life. That is made just for you and you should not lose that chance of grasping it.
— Lovely Goyal
I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.
— David Chang
The only true thoughts are those which do not grasp their own meaning
— Theodor W. Adorno
Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
— Jack Kornfield
Here's Lego Zombie Chef! Here's Lego Zombie builder! See their grasping hands and posable limbs!
— Kirsty McKay
the grasping mind cannot grasp its ultimate inability to grasp; it can only cultivate its tolerance of that inability.
— Evan Thompson
That agony, that pain, that struggle, that rejection takes you to the place of grasping your dreams.
— Euginia Herlihy
Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.
— Jaggi Vasudev
The Way of Tea lies in studying the ceremony, in understanding the principles, and in grasping the reality of things. These are its three rules.
— Hosokawa Tadaoki
Life doesn't offer many victories. It is wise to celebrate the few you manage to wring from its grasping hands
— K. Hippolite
