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Quote Left Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. Quote Right
Quote Left Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned Quote Right
Quote Left Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing. Quote Right
Quote Left Titus 1:7: Since an overseer manages God's household, he must be blameless – not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain. (NIV)

For the bishop (an overseer) as God's steward must be blameless, not self-willed or arrogant or presumptuous; he must not be quick-tempered or given to drink or pugnacious (brawling, violent); he must not be grasping and greedy for filthy lucre (financial gain) (AMP)

For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; (KJV)

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Quote Left Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. Quote Right
Quote Left You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology. Quote Right
Quote Left Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. Quote Right
Quote Left Radical simply means grasping things at the root. Quote Right
Quote Left The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. Quote Right
Quote Left She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel. Quote Right
Quote Left Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned. Quote Right
Quote Left Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right

Member Quotes About Grasping

Quote Left Grasping on the negatives lets the positives slip through our fingers. Quote Right
Quote Left And then you keep grasping this reality inside you, until you become reality..until you no longer find yourself. Quote Right

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