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What the Steele dossier does is it reflects the fevered pitch of the moment. The left was terrified about Donald Trump, they were terrified about what a Donald Trump presidency could do. So they grasped for anything that they could, it allowed them to provide a narrative to how Donald Trump was being unfairly tainted by this. – Reporter Michael Schmidt	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We had flung down the adze from the top of the fall and also the logbook and the cooker wrapped in one of our blouses. That was all, except our wet clothes, that we brought out of the Antarctic, which we had entered a year and a half before with well-found ship, full equipment, and high hopes. That was all of tangible things; but in memories we were rich. We had pierced the veneer of outside things. We had suffered, starved, and triumphed, groveled down yet grasped at glory, grown bigger in the bigness of the whole. We had seen God in his splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man. – Sir Ernest Shackleton	added by anonymous 2 years ago
Some PR professionals have been slow to grasp the scope of the paradigm shift brought by the social media revolution in our industry. Many who have grasped it have been slow to keep up-to-date with it. – Maxim Behar	added by MaximBehar 3 years ago
To ignore the range of issues just breeds more distrust and will lead to more aggressive forms of protests in the future, american companies haven't quite grasped the lessons of history yet. – Thomas Kochan	Found on CNN 4 years ago
American companies haven't quite grasped the lessons of history yet, it will come back to haunt them. – Thomas Kochan	Found on CNN 4 years ago
As a result I grasped the intruder firmly in order to remove her from the room as swiftly as possible. I deeply regret this episode and unreservedly apologize to the lady concerned for grabbing her, but in the current climate I felt the need to act decisively to close down the threat to the safety of those present. – Mark Field	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Somehow Luke understood - in a way that Lando never had, that Hand and Leia and Chewbacca had simply never grasped - just how dark a place the universe really was. Lando guessed that was where Luke got his humility. His kindness. His gentle faith that people could change for the better. That must have been why he rarely smiled, and almost never made jokes. Because the goodness was all he really had. It was his lifeline. The rope to which he clung, dangling over the abyss. – Matthew Stover	added by regnumveritatis 6 years ago
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and we have rejected the Sermon on the Mount. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience, our world is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. – General Omar Bradley	added by anonymous 8 years ago
We were becoming something while I was there, something that I don't think these kids grasped. ... I don't think they know what it means to be a brother of any fraternity, let alone mine. – William Bruce James II	Found on CNN 9 years ago
When it came to when it was clear his life would end, (the pilot) meticulously grasped the flight operating system and in the final moments he still wanted to control the plane to avoid harming residents in the housing communities, to the plane's crew, the victims ... I here express condolences. – Wu Den-yih	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Nobody has really grasped how fragile our situation is, if the Syrian refugees in Lebanon aren't fed, we will be confronted to a very worrisome situation, maybe even a revolt. – Tammam Salam	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. – Jacob Bronowski	added by anonymous 9 years ago
If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation. – Jean Kerr	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. – Cyril Connolly	added by anonymous 10 years ago
When you are in a state of nonacceptance, it's difficult to learn. A clenched fist cannot receive a gift, and a clenched psyche grasped tightly against the reality of what must not be accepted cannot easily receive a lesson. – Roger John	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation. – Jean Kerr	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. – Laurence Sterne	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. – Mao Zedong	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success Indeed it does not ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind. – John W. Hanley	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp. – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago

What the Steele dossier does is it reflects the fevered pitch of the moment. The left was terrified about Donald Trump, they were terrified about what a Donald Trump presidency could do. So they grasped for anything that they could, it allowed them to provide a narrative to how Donald Trump was being unfairly tainted by this.

– Reporter Michael Schmidt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We had flung down the adze from the top of the fall and also the logbook and the cooker wrapped in one of our blouses. That was all, except our wet clothes, that we brought out of the Antarctic, which we had entered a year and a half before with well-found ship, full equipment, and high hopes. That was all of tangible things; but in memories we were rich. We had pierced the veneer of outside things. We had suffered, starved, and triumphed, groveled down yet grasped at glory, grown bigger in the bigness of the whole. We had seen God in his splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

– Sir Ernest Shackleton

added by anonymous
2 years ago

Some PR professionals have been slow to grasp the scope of the paradigm shift brought by the social media revolution in our industry. Many who have grasped it have been slow to keep up-to-date with it.

– Maxim Behar

added by MaximBehar
3 years ago

To ignore the range of issues just breeds more distrust and will lead to more aggressive forms of protests in the future, american companies haven't quite grasped the lessons of history yet.

– Thomas Kochan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

American companies haven't quite grasped the lessons of history yet, it will come back to haunt them.

– Thomas Kochan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

As a result I grasped the intruder firmly in order to remove her from the room as swiftly as possible. I deeply regret this episode and unreservedly apologize to the lady concerned for grabbing her, but in the current climate I felt the need to act decisively to close down the threat to the safety of those present.

– Mark Field

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Somehow Luke understood - in a way that Lando never had, that Hand and Leia and Chewbacca had simply never grasped - just how dark a place the universe really was. Lando guessed that was where Luke got his humility. His kindness. His gentle faith that people could change for the better. That must have been why he rarely smiled, and almost never made jokes. Because the goodness was all he really had. It was his lifeline. The rope to which he clung, dangling over the abyss.

– Matthew Stover

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and we have rejected the Sermon on the Mount. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience, our world is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

– General Omar Bradley

added by anonymous
8 years ago

We were becoming something while I was there, something that I don't think these kids grasped. ... I don't think they know what it means to be a brother of any fraternity, let alone mine.

– William Bruce James II

Found on CNN
9 years ago

When it came to when it was clear his life would end, (the pilot) meticulously grasped the flight operating system and in the final moments he still wanted to control the plane to avoid harming residents in the housing communities, to the plane's crew, the victims ... I here express condolences.

– Wu Den-yih

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Nobody has really grasped how fragile our situation is, if the Syrian refugees in Lebanon aren't fed, we will be confronted to a very worrisome situation, maybe even a revolt.

– Tammam Salam

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

– Jacob Bronowski

added by anonymous
9 years ago

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

– Jean Kerr

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

– Cyril Connolly

added by anonymous
10 years ago

When you are in a state of nonacceptance, it's difficult to learn. A clenched fist cannot receive a gift, and a clenched psyche grasped tightly against the reality of what must not be accepted cannot easily receive a lesson.

– Roger John