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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -- Mao Zedong
I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity. -- Trevor Nunn
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. -- Jacob Bronowski
Extend a hand whether or not you know it shall be grasped. -- Ryunosuke Satoro
No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results? -- John Barton
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount. -- Omar N. Bradley
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite. -- Paul Tillich
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. -- Cyril Connolly
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. -- Diane Arbus
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation. -- Jean Kerr
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. -- Laurence Sterne
I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance. -- Eric Sevareid
Nobody has really grasped yet the great wealth that can be made selling data over the Web. There are 100 million potential customers out there. -- Michael J. Saylor
When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes. -- Christopher Lasch
Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life. -- Paul Tillich
Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs and broadcast tweets, but every private text message, email, and voicemail is likely to be stored and accessible. Forever. -- Douglas Rushkoff
They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race. -- Denis Kearney
The thing that's caught me off guard is going to dinner and people asking me for autographs or to take a picture. People coming to my house asking for autographs - that's something I really haven't grasped the whole entirety of yet. -- Johnny Manziel
There are people I've worked with who have never understood how fashion works. They keep saying they love fashion, yet they've never actually grasped that this isn't yoghurt or a piece of furniture - products in the purest sense of the term. -- Nicolas Ghesquiere
One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased. -- Hermann Ebbinghaus
I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating. -- Sachin Tendulkar
The only thing that surprised me about 'Lincoln' is that most of the critics who reviewed the film seem not to have grasped what should have been apparent right from the start, which is that 'Lincoln' is at bottom a play with pictures, not a screenplay. -- Terry Teachout
If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek. -- Tony Judt
It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called 'chads,' a notion we've never entirely grasped. -- Graham Joyce
Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models. -- Will Self
Well, as I said, you know the issue of Greek debt, they've grasped the principle of debt reduction. I think most people would argue that probably more needs to be done on that front, and they've just begun to take the first steps to accepting that there's going to have to be much closer economic integration in Europe. -- Vince Cable
Once all struggles are grasped, miracles are possible. -- Mao Zedong
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped. -- Gunter Grass
What is not grasped has all the chances to become real. -- Edmond Jabes
The past must be let go before the future can be grasped. -- Lisa Wingate
What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love. -- William Sloane Coffin
Religion is not what is grasped by the brain, but a heart grasp. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The totality of the psyche can never be grasped by the intellect alone. -- Carl Jung
The opportunity of a lifetime must be grasped within the lifetime of that opportunity. -- Catherine DeVrye
one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident. -- Arthur Koestler
No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough. -- Martin Luther
The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed. -- J. C. Ryle
Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm. -- C. S. Lewis
What people haven't quite grasped yet is that the rich are transforming cities all across the world. -- Cleve Jones
God cannot be grasped by the mind. If he could be grasped, he would not be God. -- Evagrius Ponticus
If you donâ??t get excited about the gospel, youâ??ve never really grasped what itâ??s telling you. -- Derek Prince
When you have grasped a problem clearly, face it with resolution, for that is the way of the strong. -- Khalil Gibran
It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association -- William James
One day I hope you understand when you reached out your hand, I grasped it, I never let it go. -- Kaitlin D.S. Cammie
I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool. -- George Orwell
Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Now and then I see something in her eyes, and I wonder if I've ever grasped how much pain she's really in. -- Stephenie Meyer
There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious. -- C. S. Lewis
The 'success' of the sermon is utterly dependent on the God who breaks through and 'grasps' us, or we cannot be 'grasped. -- Eric Metaxas
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. -- Laurence Sterne
The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge. -- Jack McDevitt
As long as you have not grasped that you have to die to grow, you are a troubled guest on the dark earth". -- Mircea Eliade
If you will excuse me, your coat lapels are badly twisted downward, where they have been grasped by the pertinacious New York reporters. -- David Walton
Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture. -- FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
Your true meaning cannot be grasped or captured by words. You can never be equated with any words, because you are prior to words. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation. -- Laozi
The measure of biblical truth that we have grasped is not determined by the size of our heads, but the breadth of our hearts. -- Paul Washer
What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything. -- Laurence Sterne
I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasnt going to change unless I made it change. -- Gretchen Rubin
Happiness, I have grasped, is a destination, like strawberry Fields. Once you find the way in, there you are, and you'll never feel low again. -- Rachel Simon
If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be. -- Zhuangzi
We are connected with our own age if we recognize ourselves in relation to outside events; and we have grasped its spirit when we influence the future. -- Hans Hofmann
The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden. -- William James
Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time. -- Cyril Connolly
Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that youve grasped the truth. -- James Heckman
But what Freud showed us"¦ was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia. -- Jacques Lacan
Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (July 11, 1868) -- Karl Marx
It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there. -- William Golding
It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles. -- Charlie Munger
A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it. -- Henri Matisse
The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present. -- Terry Eagleton
Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy. -- Ann Voskamp
He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals. -- George Maciunas
Mother Liberty caresses with generous affections...[those] who, armed with the weapons of high-minded honesty,...have grasped that the freedom of each is rooted in the freedom of all. -- Emma Goldman
I believe the sense of lost opportunity is rooted in a faulty understanding of God's grace. Likewise, when grace is grasped and embraced, the Land of Opportunity becomes yours again. -- David Jeremiah
Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Then 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
What?â? I said defensively, clutching the mink and my dignity. Since I was barefoot, mostly naked and completely hungover, I was pretty sure I grasped only one of them. -- Karen Chance
Some day the road that you choose will be your destiny The hope and the anxiety you grasped tightly Will surely move you and me, because it will become a light -- Anonymous
When I dance, I look like I'm a dad at a prom. I never grasped my limbs. Ever since puberty I've just kind of felt like we don't understand each other. -- Jennifer Lawrence
Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is fool enough to do so. -- Robertson Davies
The underlying, primary psychic reality is so inconceivably complex that it can be grasped only at the farthest reach of intuition, and then but very dimly. That is why it needs symbols. -- Carl Jung
. . . woman is a being dominated by the creative urge and . . . no understanding of her as an individual can be gained unless the significance and effects of that great fact can be grasped. -- Beatrice M. Hinkle
We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye ... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. -- Jacob Bronowski
Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been firmly grasped; what crumbles away crumbles away, but cannot be destroyed. -- Franz Kafka
The visual does seem to me the most thoroughly grasped and recorded among my impressions; sight seems to be my principal sense organ, and "seeing" supplies the key metaphors for reporting the perception. -- Zygmunt Bauman
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. All the opportunities in the world are waiting to be grasped by people who are in love with what they're doing. -- Samuel Goldwyn
When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it and understood it quickly. I just enjoyed breaking the codes and solving problems. -- Chris Bosh
That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards. -- Sebastian Faulks

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