Grasped Quotes

You have weighed the stars in the balance, and grasped the skies in a span: / Take, if you must have answer, the word of a common man. - G. K. Chesterton

You are the wealth of the poor, the Guru of the guru-less, the honor of the dishonored. I am blind; I have grasped hold of the jewel, the Guru. - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information / never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good / he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world. - Plato

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes. - Christopher Lasch

When I first met Seal he had a kindness and compassion that was so sincere I knew he'd be a good father. Bit it wasn't until Leni was born and we had out three other children that I grasped what a great dad he is. He has infinite amounts of love and patience for our kids. He puts me and the children first. - Heidi Klum

What Washington could not understand was why none of those who held power on the British side made any attempt to learn about the American people, their history and views. None of them grasped that the Colonies had had representative governments since their inception. - Paul Johnson

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount. - Omar N. Bradley

We had opportunities and grasped them. - Phil Mooney

Unfortunately, a lot of coaches have grasped the concept of self promotion and Tom never cared about self promotion. It is a mystery with Tom Moore. But the guy has never played politics. . . . Now he's at the stage where it's an age issue. - Chris Mortensen

Till now, China hasn't grasped how powerful Congress can be and how it works. Persuading Bush isn't the real challenge. - Guan Anping