Grasp Quotes

“Thus the feeling I sometimes have - which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have - that one cannot lie to an aphasiac. He cannot grasp your words, and cannot be deceived by them; but what he grasps he grasps with infallible precision, namely the expression that goes with the words, the total, spontaneous, involuntary expressiveness which can never be simulated or faked, as words alone can, too easily.”

“Thus the feeling I sometimes have - which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have - that one cannot lie to an aphasiac. He cannot grasp your words, and cannot be deceived by them; but what he grasps he grasps with infallible precision, namely the expression that goes with the words, the total, spontaneous, involuntary expressiveness which can never be simulated or faked, as words alone can, too easily.”

“Leaders grasp nettles.”

“Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.”

“You let go of my hand to hold on to my heartDistance grasps us tightnow that we are apart”

“The only true thoughts are those which do not grasp their own meaning”

“Potential: a bridge between ask and grasp.”

“What is most decisive is God's Joy Project is not that we fully grasp it, but that our sovereign God fully grasps us.”

“One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.”

“Just as we will never grasp the full meaning of God, we will also never grasp the full meaning of love.”

“The grasping mind holds on to everything – beliefs, people, possessions – so that it seems as though there is hardly any room to breathe.”