Quotes 21 till 40 of 45.
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It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 32 -
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.
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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.
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One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
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Opportunity is like a bald-headed man with only a patch of hair right in front. You have to grab that hair, grasp the opportunity while it's confronting you, else you'll be grasping a slick bald head.
Speech at the Carrie Tuggle Institute, Birmingham (date unknown) [6] -
Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,
And Thy pierced feet I clasp;
Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;
On me, with compassion fraught,
Let Thy glances fall.
Thy cross of agony,
My Beloved, look on me;
Turn me wholly unto Thee;
Be thou whole, say openly:
I forgive thee all. -
Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean.
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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.
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The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
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The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot grasp nature's bare blade without shedding our own blood.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
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The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society.
The Sociological Imagination (1959) -
The sun doesn't shine at night, and wind power is highly variable. To meet our emissions goals, we're going to have to grasp every arrow in the quiver, and nuclear is one of those arrows.
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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.
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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
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To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.
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Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.
Rolling Stones The Immortals (2004) -
Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.
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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.
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