#grasp

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#art #even #gesture #grasp #greater

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. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#alarm #arm #between #boldly #brilliance

Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles. ↗

— Paul A. Volcker

#business #cycles #emphasis #grasp #heavy

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion. ↗

— Abdurrahman Wahid

#grasp #islam #knowing #lenient #many

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#better #desk #dinner #dinner party #get

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#been #contest #executive #executive power #grasp

I know some actors feel classes are not cool or they create negative public relations, but I continue to crave the story just beyond my reach. To grasp that brass ring I need to continue to fine-tune my talents. ↗

— Michael Welch

#brass #classes #continue #cool #crave

Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid? ↗

— John Archibald Wheeler

#been #behind #century #could #decade

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#even #finite #grasp #infinite #infinitude

Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make. ↗

— Debra Winger

#age #also #beyond #care #comment