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Letter "G" » grasp
«But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.»
«A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.»
Author: Charles de Gaulle
| About:
Leadership
| Keywords:
breathless, element, excited, grasp, sleeve
«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.»
Author: Hugh Sidey
| About:
Humor,
Joy,
Laughter,
Sense of humor
| Keywords:
armor, grasp, sense of humor
«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»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Happiness
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«Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?»
«Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.»
«Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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Beyond the Limits, first instance, futility, grasp, grasps, human mind, illusion, instance, limits, mad, The Second
«Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.»
«But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Creativity,
Mathematics,
Principles
| Keywords:
ancients, dreamed, grasp, principle, pure mathematics, reside, resided, resides, residing
«Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.»
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