Clinched Quotes

#1. Wouldn't it be more of a free country," persisted Francie "if we could ride in them free?" "No." "Why?" "Because that would be Socialism," concluded Johnny triumphantly, "and we don't want that over here." "Why?" "Because we got democracy and that's the best thing there is," clinched Johnny.

Betty Smith

#2. In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.

Victor Hugo

#3. I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.

Zak Orth

#4. In the closet, in my nest of human cloth, I dreamt of skinless people, a world of living meat, clinched in a wounded hug and finally understanding. We would truly feel the cold, we would truly know each other.

Colin McAdam

#5. You have to come to the world of enlightenment with open hands, not clinched fists, without an agenda.

Frederick Lenz

#6. Perhaps this was the greatest genius of the cyber jihadis: the monopoly they clinched on information. They realized how helplessly addicted the population had become to knowing in this information age. So what if news was tainted or unreliable? - people needed their daily fix.

Manil Suri

#7. As I watched him on the stage, my hands were clinched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell, could break that Satan's spell.

Don McLean

#8. Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or until you conclude to abandon it. A constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched.

P.T. Barnum

#9. Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?

Don Williams

#10. Things somehow seem more real and vivid when one can apply somebody else's ready-made phrase about them ( ... ) you bring them out triumphantly, and feel you've clinched the argument with the mere magical sound of them. That's what comes of the higher education.

Aldous Huxley

#11. Do you want to be smart or do you want to know things?

Kieron Gillen

#12. Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

George Bernard Shaw

#13. The best way to learn how to become trustworthy is to study other trustworthy people.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#14. The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard.

Ellen Glasgow

#15. I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions.

Anita Hill

#16. I think it's important to be sincere. And I could be the most sincere just staying in [my] mother language actually. And that's the reason why I stay composing and writing in French.

Stromae

#17. I have no idea what White House statement was issued, but I stand by it 100 percent.

Richard Darman

#18. I do think it's strange that I get associated with Iraq more than the people who were Foreign Secretary or Defence Secretary. It's because of my closeness to Tony [Blair], which I don't regret at all. I think that was a privilege.

Alastair Campbell

#19. Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.

George Will

#20. When God tells you to be brave, he will make it work. It won't be perfect. It won't be easy. But it will be your story and your best story.

Annie F. Downs

#21. I like getting carried away by what is happening and then decide each scene based on the actors, the set and the light.

Benjamin Avila