“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once”
Cyril Connolly
“We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.”
William James
“The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything.”
C.S. Lewis
“But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.”
Anne Bronte
“The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.”
Colin Wilson
“Radical simply means "grasping things at the root."”
Angela Davis
“What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?”
William Osler