I am following Nature without being able to grasp her I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
There will be I think an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.
I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
Leaders grasp nettles.
Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm and grasp it as a whole and you thereupon have present in you the image so to speak of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.
I am conscious of my inability to grasp in all its details and positive developments any very large portion of human knowledge.
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.
Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.
Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always just beyond your grasp but which if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you.
Surely the President can agree with us that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.
A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself were it possible.
If I am capable of grasping God objectively I do not believe but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
Surely God would not have created such a being as man with an ability to grasp the infinite to exist only for a day! No no man was made for immortality.
Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple wars won't be over just oil anymore they will be over water and food.
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.