Famous quotes containing the word grasp:
“On such a night, when Air has loosed
Its guardian grasp on blood and brain,
Old terrors then of god or ghost
Creep from their caves to life again;”
—Robert Bridges (1844–1930)
“... black progress and progress for women are inextricably linked in contemporary American politics, and ... each group suffers when it fails to grasp the dimensions of the other’s struggle.”
—Margaret A. Burnham (b. 1944)
“So I will not go on shouting as once I did: Fate, Fate! It’s no use revering it merely as Fate, we must look at it, grasp it, and destroy it.”
—Alfred Döblin (1878–1957)
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