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.