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- Nov 07, 2020
Grasping Quotes
On reaching for what matters most.
These grasping quotes move from an architect grasping the shadow instead of the substance to a toddler grasping at kisses and toys with an eager, exploring Body.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Pleasure
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- Nov 07, 2020
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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Exerting
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're always grasping to feel safe. Ultimately, some people feel safe through love or family or community. Some people through exerting control.
- Open
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Credit
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Deadwood' proved that viewers are smarter in terms of grasping intricate dialogue than they had been given credit for.
- Frustrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- First Term
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who supported Obama felt like they formed a relationship, that they were being spoken to. The way that campaign worked and the way he's worked during his first term is to make people feel like he's grasping their hand, whether it's by tweeting or email, moments after an event, sometimes during an event. It makes people relate to him.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020