#grasp

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. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#always #beyond #butterfly #down #grasp

Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#grasp #history #need

I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#anything #fact #fascinated #grasp #i

I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that. ↗

— Laura Wilkinson

#hard #i #potential #really #see

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#dances #defining #defining moment #experience #grasp

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for? ↗

— Robert Browning

#exceed #grasp #heaven #his #man

China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S. ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

#becoming #been #better #chances #china

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? ↗

— Robert Browning

#exceed #grasp #heaven #his #man

In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue before we can either define it or grasp its impact. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#define #detriment #either #fact #government

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