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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.

Quotes by Vitruvius

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.

Quotes by Thomas Fuller

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.

Quotes by T. S. Eliot

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

Quotes by Stephen Kinzer

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

Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard

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.

Quotes by Rudolfo Anaya

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.

Quotes by Rick Perlstein

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.

Quotes by Richard Simmons

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.

Quotes by Richard MacDonald

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.

Quotes by Philip Yancey

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

Quotes by Lauren Cohan

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.

Quotes by Laurel Lea

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.

Quotes by Krista Tippett

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.

Quotes by John C. Calhoun

'Deadwood' proved that viewers are smarter in terms of grasping intricate dialogue than they had been given credit for.

Quotes by Jim Beaver

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.

Quotes by Jeffrey Thomas

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.

Quotes by James Spader

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.

Quotes by Hope Jahren

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.

Quotes by Henry James

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.

Quotes by Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

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

Quotes by George Bancroft

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen

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

Quotes by Deepak Chopra

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

Quotes by David Chang

One must remember that in the '70s, Democrats still grasping for Camelot were desperately pinning their hopes on Teddy while Republicans were doing everything they could politically to turn him into a punch line post-Chappaquiddick. And the idea of Ted Kennedy - rather than the actual man - dominated his political legacy through the early '90s.

Quotes by Chuck Todd

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.

Quotes by Christian Lous Lange

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.

Quotes by Carrie Coon

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.

Quotes by Brody Jenner

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.

Quotes by Brian Greene

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.

Quotes by Billy Tauzin

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

Quotes by Aesop

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

Quotes by Aesop

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