Grasp Quotes

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the original.

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

They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.

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

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.

Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?

I know some actors feel classes are not cool or they create negative public relations, but I continue to crave the story just beyond my reach. To grasp that brass ring I need to continue to fine-tune my talents.

Studies indicate that most of young adults struggle to grasp even the most basic financial principles that will allow them to manage money and prepare for their future.

We don't know why we are here and the context of our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. It's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets.

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

At the beginning of the season, I set my goal to see if I can lead the league in scoring, because I feel I have that kind of ability. A lot of guys say it, but it's not really in their grasp. I feel that's really in my grasp.

I'm sure some people have an absolute grasp of where they are in their careers. I just don't think about it that much.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

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

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations.

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.

Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is.

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory.

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.