26 Grasping Quotes for You to Enjoy

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. Buddha

You Anger Holding Else Someone Throwing Hot Like Gets Intent Burned Holding On Coal Who Grasping

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

You Lose Shadow Beware Substance Grasping Lest

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. Wayne Dyer

Water Ocean All Things About Allowing Powerful Like Most Most Powerful Always Patiently Flexible Grasping Things Flow

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. T. S. Eliot

Christmas Christmas Tree Tree Corner Fragrant Pleasure Tables Rising Kisses Take Knee Advancing Taking Between Arm Retreating Toys Falling Legs Moving Reassured Grasping Boldly Sudden Chairs Eager Alarm Brilliance

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. Aesop

You Lose Shadow Beware Substance Grasping

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing. Thomas Fuller

Thoughts Memory Judgment Nothing Complain Others Our Retain Very Depends Order Want Much Regularity Many Grasping Defect

When people ask me where my roots are, I look down at my feet, and I see the roots of my soul grasping the earth. They are here... in the Southwest... I still live in New Mexico. Rudolfo Anaya

Lacking the direct test of success or failure, the voter tends to turn, not to those politicians whose measures have the best chance of success, but to those with the ability to 'sell' their propaganda. Without grasping logical chains of deduction, the average voter will never be able to discover the error that the ruler makes. Murray Rothbard

Success Best Failure Logical Will Politicians Ruler Those Ability Able Propaganda Direct Tends Never Voter Without Makes Test Discover Error Sell Lacking Turn Average Deduction Measures Grasping Chains Whose Chance

I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion. Billy Tauzin

Time Fashion Great Too Much Great Deal Lost Think Too Sympathy Our Way Crisis Responsible One Time More Instead Support Most Identifying Deal Priorities Importantly Handled Which Much Grasping Appeared

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. Brody Jenner

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. Callan McAuliffe

Me You People Other Others Way TV Find About Learn Very Movies Much Act Grasping Watching Watching Tv

Can a great artist be mean-spirited, grasping, harsh to his family, violent in his emotions, vindictive in his hatreds, an all-purpose scoundrel? If our test cases are the likes of Wagner, Picasso, and, let me say, Dickens, the answer is a resounding yes. Fred Kaplan

Great Family Me Emotions Great Artist Resounding Our Say Harsh Cases Picasso Likes Answer Test Wagner His Dickens Yes Scoundrel Artist Grasping Vindictive Violent

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. Henry James

Nature Will Face Country Master Field Imagination Elsewhere Our Secrets Worthily More Only Civilization Point Write Well Very Yield Than American Literary Really Certain Certain Point Grasping Even Sufficient Things Need

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. Jeffrey Thomas

You Elusive Strings Must Hopefully Toughest Reader Leave Than Beginnings Expectations Endings Frustrate Them Your Grasping Satisfy Harder

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. John C. Calhoun

Peace People Ambition Others Our Resources Earth Indeed Kind Abound Only Cast Vast Developed Prosperous Beyond Most Make Globe Policy Greatest Providence Lot Which Us Require Fully Grasping Satisfy Portion Sufficiently

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. Krista Tippett

Faith You People Down Birthright Possible Find Religious Religious People Mystery Narrow Answers Often Theology Grasping Things Shut

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. Lou Barlow

Myself Thoughts Challenges People Confused Nothing Busy Alienated Chunk Musical Out Onto Had Songs Put Stuff Verbal Were Lot Huge Any Intention Just Anybody Grasping Keeping

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. Rakul Preet Singh

Confidence Learning People Better New Things Every Open New Also Course Always Learnt Lot Getting Getting Better Grasping Each Activity Film Growth Technique Things Levels

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. Richard MacDonald

Knowledge Photography Memory Complete Anatomy Out Photographic Inside Inside-Out Physiology Outside Just Happening Interest Use Moment Grasping Zero

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. Richard Simmons

You People Will Miracles Year Miracle Remain Weight Exercise Still Unfortunately Gain Gain Weight Dormant Then Body Your Your Body Grasping

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. Rick Perlstein

Ideology Rage Liberalism Right-Wing Component Blacks Steals Gives Bears Spoils Because Understood America Racial Whites Grasping Hard-Working

Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance. Vitruvius

Able Shadow Architect Adopt He Instead Mere Fails Also Practical Substance Wherefore Forms Reasons Grasping Assign Sufficient

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