Top 35 Grasping Quotes

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

I find that you learn from others. It’s very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.

For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.

I think teams really want to see how you respond picking up and grasping things and if you can make changes and regurgitate that information.

People are still grasping for the miracle, and unfortunately, there are no miracles, if you do not exercise for a year, and let your body remain dormant, then you will gain weight.

I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don’t have their hands open, there’s something they’re grasping because there’s a lot of things to grasp in a prosperous country.

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

Peace is, indeed, our policy. A kind Providence has cast our lot on a portion of the globe sufficiently vast to satisfy the most grasping ambition, and abounding in resources beyond all others, which only require to be fully developed to make us the greatest and most prosperous people on earth.

People want to protect their way of life, and when they think it’s in danger they start grasping for more extreme-seeming alternatives.

Radical simply means ‘grasping things at the root.’

Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.

The deadnettle is the Punxsutawney Phil of the plant world: short of stature but stout of heart. At the first hint of winter’s wane, its stem rises from the ground, and a green, grasping hand of sepals unclenches to divulge two silky-white petals, one of which unfurls straight up toward the sky.

Unlike the primate hand, the elephant’s grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to sniff and touch it. With their unparalleled sense of smell, the animals know exactly what they are going for. Vision is secondary.

Grasping the realities of the Middle East is never easy. This is not primarily because they change quickly, but because so much time, effort, and money is spent to prevent reality from breaking through.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Endings are the toughest, harder than beginnings. They must satisfy the expectations you have hopefully generated in your reader – not frustrate them, leave the reader grasping at elusive strings.

I’m grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.

I’ve put out a lot of stuff that just confused and alienated people: a huge chunk of songs that were verbal and musical challenges to myself, thoughts I was keeping myself busy with, nothing I had any intention of anybody grasping onto.

I’m just grasping everything, getting as much knowledge as I can, and continuing to learn and not being afraid to take challenges and actually take action.

All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology that steals from hard-working, taxpaying whites and gives the spoils to indolent, grasping blacks.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’

We don’t have control over many things. We’re always grasping for it, but in reality, we don’t have a lot of control.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction.

Growth is a sub-conscious activity, and I learnt a lot in this course, and I’m always open to learning and grasping new things from people. I’m learning with every film, and my confidence levels and technique is also getting better with each film.

I felt invisible in my family, and I wanted to be significant like my brothers were significant. I wanted my parents to pay attention, so I went out into the world with that driving me, that grasping, that seeking validation.

The idea of having a narrative guiding the viewer through and grasping their attention is a really compelling thing.

The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless.

I use zero photography. I have a photographic memory and a complete knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and an interest in grasping the moment of what is happening, not just the outside, but the inside out.

Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow what is possible.

Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.

I don’t treat my family any differently because they’re on television. I’ve always had a problem grasping fame. I don’t think I understand fame, and I don’t think I ever will. I think that anybody who thinks that they understand fame, they’re doing it for the wrong reasons.

We’re always grasping to feel safe. Ultimately, some people feel safe through love or family or community. Some people through exerting control.