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Chinas 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 Quotes
Its slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form. - Prince Andrew Quotes
I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in ones mind. - Norman Mailer Quotes
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -. - Alexander Graham Bell Quotes
A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment. - Otto Von Bismarck Quotes
To grasp the full significance of life is the actors duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication. - James Dean Quotes
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. - Gustave Courbet Quotes
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless. - Charles De Gaulle Quotes
My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc. - David Bohm Quotes
Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers. - Albert Bandura Quotes
I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization. - Frantz Fanon Quotes
The nations government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory. - Evita Peron Quotes
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. - James Russell Lowell Quotes
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. - Abraham Lincoln Quotes
While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it. - Maimonides Quotes
Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations. - John Ensign Quotes
Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as its increasingly an art of gesture alone. - Andrew Eldritch Quotes
I dont believe anybody can really grasp everything thats even in one textbook. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control. - Jack Henry Abbott Quotes
Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe. - Tony Snow Quotes
You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when Id buy a new album Id invariably hate it the first time I heard it cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldnt grasp what theyd done, and Id hate myself for that. - Andy Partridge Quotes
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay. - Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
You have to remember were just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life. - Tom Kenny Quotes
The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message. - Pope John Paul Ii Quotes
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. - Carl Sagan Quotes
I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling. - T S Eliot Quotes
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. - Claude Monet Quotes
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 Quotes
Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished. - Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
Leaders grasp nettles. - David Ogilvy Quotes
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