Grappling Quotes - page 2

My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face. (Maeve Binchy)
There's something to play if there's conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that's where drama is; if the character is grappling with something you've got something to play, there's layers to it. View quote
Clive Owen
What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television. View quote
J. J. Abrams
Nigeria is still grappling with the negative consequences of the use of opacity by senior members of government and their cronies between 1993 and 1998, awarding themselves juicy contracts in the extractive industry. View quote
Yemi Osinbajo
Can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over the rails, swords in hand, screaming 'Your cats! Give us all your god-damned cats! View quote
Scott Lynch
One of the most important revelations about a period comes in its theory of language, for that informs us whether language is viewed as a bridge to the noumenal or as a body of fictions convenient for grappling with transitory phenomena. View quote
Richard Weaver
See yourself reacting to threats, not by running away or evading them, but by meeting them, dealing with them, grappling with them in an aggressive intelligent manner. View quote
Maxwell Maltz
Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism. View quote
Robert Harris (novelist)
Our greatness, our talent has never been the question. It's been a matter of grappling for control over what we do. View quote
Spike Lee
Strangely enough, many of the philosophical issues surrounding quantum mechanics are today being used to entice potential students into physics. As quantum computing and quantum communication become a commercial reality, tomorrow's students may find themselves routinely grappling with the same philosophical questions that challenged their forebears almost a century ago. View quote
David Kaiser
O, how I choke in uttering my disgrace! Thinking I her embraced whom I did seek, A mountain hard I found I did embrace. Overgrown with trees and bushes nothing sleek. Thus (grappling with a mountain face to face, Which I stood pressing for her angel's cheek) I was no man: no but a stupid block And grew unto a rock another rock. (Luís de Camões)
Beowulf grappling with the monstors was a type of Christ grappling with Satan. View quote
Thomas Cahill
A culture that is in the process of being swamped by another often reacts by physically grappling with the outsiders. But it may wage a cultural war as well. Such defensive actions have been given various labels by anthropologists: nativism, revivalism, revitalization, and messianism. All are deliberate efforts to erect a better culture out of the defeat or decay of an older one. ...The reactions of primitive peoples overpowered by Eurasian colonial empires have usually been much more extreme. Their lands appropriated, their social system ripped apart, their customs suppressed, and their holy places profaned-they tried to resist physically but they were inevitably defeated by the superior firepower and technology of the Whites. As hopelessness and apathy settled over these people, the ground was prepared for revivalistic and messianic movements that promised the return of the good old days. View quote
Peter Farb