Definition of Grasping

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Definition of Grasping
	Grasping Seizing; embracing; catching. Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man. Related Definitions: As, Avaricious, Catching, Close, Covetous, Embracing, Gain, Grasping, Greedy, He, Is, Man, Miserly, Of, Seizing

Grasping Quotations

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.
Deepak Chopra

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
Soren Kierkegaard

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
Abigail Adams

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop

Radical simply means "grasping things at the root."
Angela Davis

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
Henry James

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
Thomas Fuller

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
Elizabeth Bowen

Grasping Translations

grasping in German is packend, zupackend
grasping in Latin is tenax
grasping in Spanish is avaro
grasping in Swedish is fattande

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