Grapples Quotes

#1. To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe ... it just doesn't happen any more. In even the most indie of the indie films, everything has to come to some kind of neat conclusion.

Emily Mortimer

#2. Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. 'Where did the totality of reality come from?' 'Did time have a beginning?'

Brian Greene

#3. The [Iranian] government grapples with more important issues and we can maybe say that these films don't really exist for them. It's not about whether they like it or don't; it's just not very important to them.

Abbas Kiarostami

#4. When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory. So it happened to Gautama.

H.G.Wells

#5. I was also beginning to learn about social psychology and the Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures, which made me think about how malleable our supposedly strict moral codes become in the right conditions. Something that DIVERGENT grapples with.

Veronica Roth

#6. From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.

Douglas Kennedy

#7. When I'm drafting, I suppose it's an intuitive process - figuring out when something just has a surreal glaze on it and when it grapples with something that could threaten a character's day-to-day reality.

Karen Russell

#8. As the world grapples with more efficient ways of managing time, it lures us into more and more earthly pursuits. But life is not a struggle with time - it is a struggle between good and evil.

Keith B. McMullin

#9. I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#10. I was very pleased with the entire selection process. The manner in which it was conducted included all parts of United States' basketball, from the professional level to the colleges and high schools. Everyone was considered.

Mike Krzyzewski

#11. People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow letting the team down.

Nick Cave

#12. He liked to say that what makes literature is "inventing truly from honestly acquired knowledge, so that what you make up is truer than what you might remember.

Paul Hendrickson

#13. But I implore you . . . start now.

Rainbow Rowell

#14. I don't want people to think that I can't make fun of myself.

GG Allin

#15. A lie has forgiveness. A deceive doesn't. The difference is in lying to protect and deceiving to harm.

Eulalia Marques

#16. I can't play a character that I am judging.

Rachelle Lefevre

#17. The worst thing about talk ... is that there's no way to lay it to rest. Every fresh breeze brings a new speculation.

Susan Wittig Albert

#18. There was no quick and easy eradication of evil. There was only the passage of time, of generations, of people raising children who would hold all other lives just as valuable as their own.

Erika Johansen

#19. I've gotten to that point where I'm so used to being sweaty, wearing pants, and sitting like a guy in boots. When I'm dressed up and people are touching me up and doing the whole thing, I'm less comfortable with that.

Maggie Q

#20. A just person knows how to secure his own reputation without blemishing another's by exposing his faults.

Pasquier Quesnel

#21. Just to prove i was right that it's harder to be friends than lovers and you shouldn't try and mix the two, cause if you do and then you're still unhappy, then you know that the problem is you.

Liz Phair

#22. May all our contemporaries stand beside their brothers and sisters in humanity. Each one of you is called by Christ and must be a missionary of the Good News in word and in active charity.

Pope Benedict XVI

#23. I sing and dance. That's my job.

Dick Van Dyke

#24. For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause

William Shakespeare