Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.
Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.
Most pastors have a hard time grasping a vision. But vision is the indispensable quality of a leader.
Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.
There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.
Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
To say that the vote fraud conspiracy theorists are tilting at windmills is an understatement. They're using a legitimate public process to pursue an agenda that is, at best, grasping at straws and, at worse, partisan.
Since form is emptiness and emptiness is form, then instead of a hand grasping at nothing, it is better to grasp at someone's nose because this is closer to reality.
The United States has lost her unique position as a leader in the progress of civilization and has taken up her place simply as one of the grasping and selfish nations of the present day.
[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.
People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.
In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
The brain's strong point is its flexibility. It is unsurpassed at making shrewd guesses and at grasping the total meaning of information presented to it.
Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible. Slip quietly out of the noose of your habitual anxious self, release all grasping, and relax into your true nature.
Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.
Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are the most tolerable are arbitary, cruel, grasping, and unintelligent.
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
If worldviews or metanarratives can be compared to lenses, which of them brings things into the sharpest focus? This is not an irrational retreat from reason. Rather, it is about grasping a deeper order of things which is more easily accessed by the imagination than by reason.
The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists exists; what is is. From this irreducible, bedrock principle, all knowledge is built. This is the foundation from which life is embraced. Reason is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they a means to discovering them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality–it is our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see. " -Richard
