Top 100 Grab It Quotes
#1. The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.
Mark Twain
#2. You've heard about the knitter's handshake? Two hands go in for the grab-and-shake, but at the last minute, they veer to the closest sleeve or band and grab it instead while we ask, "Did you knit this?
Clara Parkes
#3. I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.
Wole Soyinka
#4. I think if you've won one, quit while you're ahead. I loved doing it, though. If you get an opportunity that great, grab it, as it won't come along again. Until I read in the papers I did it to 'rescue my career'.
Tony Blackburn
#5. If you get a second chance, grab it with the first and second hands. Never let it go till all is done and done well. Second chances come with the last graces!
Israelmore Ayivor
#6. Want a sugar cube? [ ... ] They're supposed to be for the horses, but who cares? They've got years to eat sugar, whereas you and I ... well, if we see something sweet we better grab it quick. [ ... ] You're absolutely terrifying me in that get-up. What happened to the pretty little-girl dresses?
Suzanne Collins
#7. You grab at any sign of hope. You grab it with both hands and breathe life into it, day after day. You do anything to keep it alive.
Melina Marchetta
#8. Suddenly the moment was there. All I had to do was grab it. What I'd dreamed about but hadn't dared believe could happen.
James Patterson
#9. If I had a suitcase, I would love it. I would shrink-wrap it when I traveled. I would put stickers from every place I'd ever been on it. And when I saw it on the carousel I would grab it with both hands and I'd be so happy to have it because then my adventures would really begin.
Nicola Yoon
#10. Stand up for what's right for you when the time's right. Wake up to grab it as soon as possible. Shake up when you wake up; never miss opportunities that could clearly set you up for a breakthrough!
Israelmore Ayivor
#11. We need to be aware of the liberty of development and growth and we must grab it with both hands.
Euginia Herlihy
#12. By disciplining and training the mind to focus on one thing, we gain control of perception; we learn to grab it and put it someplace we want it to be.
Frederick Lenz
#13. Focus on action! Go on! Do it! Call them! Write it! Say it! Grab it! Who knows what 'awesome stuff' might happen? Yes - Action is the key!
David Ryan
#14. Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.
Margaret Mitchell
#15. I'd once been told that if a man wanted something he did not have, no matter how elusive that thing was, if his feet do not restrain him from chasing it, he would eventually grab it. This was our case.
Chigozie Obioma
#16. We are having experiences all the time which may on occasion render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your bliss is. Grab it. No one can tell you what it is going to be. You have to learn to recongnize your own depth.
Joseph Campbell
#17. Everything is temporary, Duane. This," he gestured to our surroundings, "this is temporary. Even mountains fall. Nothing lasts forever. You got a chance at happiness, even for a week, a month, a year? You grab it and you hold on to it for as long as it lasts.
Penny Reid
#18. A woman's got one life: She's got to reach out and grab it with both hands, or it'll pass her by and leave nothing but a smelly old fart in her face.
Robin Schone
#19. You can have this kind of love. You can have it.
You just grab it. Of course the problem with
having that love is that you can lose it, too.
Emma Forrest
#20. Death, I now see, may not come when I am 85 and weary, or after I have solved all my problems or met all my deadlines. It will come whenever it damn well pleases; all I can control is the time between. So when I see something I want, I grab it. If the tulips are particularly yellow, I buy them.
Joyce Wadler
#21. Seeing me shivering, he stretched a front leg toward the sweatshirt, pawing the edge and snarling when he realized he couldn't grab it.
"The lack of opposable thumbs is going to take some getting used to, huh?"
Kelley Armstrong
#22. Maybe sometimes things come to you that you never, in a thousand years, would have included. But they strike a chord, so grab it. Trust your ability to know what's true to it and what would carry you off into outer space.
Joan Tewkesbury
#23. There will never be another day such as this one, with all the variables of life combining in such a way to form this opportunity. So don't let it go, grab it.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#24. When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.
Justina Chen
#25. Life is available to anyone no matter what age. All you have to do is grab it.
Art Carney
#26. Own what you are, and I mean whether that's art, or whether that's fashion, or whether that's music, or whether that's acting, or whether that's politics, or whether that's literature; it's own what you are, and grab it, and, you know, be as prolific as possible.
Courtney Love
#27. If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!
Elisabeth Elliot
#28. Moving right along
In search of good times
And good news,
With good friends you can't lose.
This could become a habit.
Opportunity just knocked,
Let's reach out and grab it,
Together we'll nab it,
We'll hitch-hike, bus, or yellow cab it.
Jim Henson
#29. You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm a gangster. If I want something, I'll grab it.
John Cassavetes
#31. No. There are no second chances in life, no rewind button. You don't get a do-over, so if you want something you have to run, smash into it and grab it with everything you have. You have to take it and hold onto it tightly before it's too late.
Emma Hart
#32. In America I think it's much more full of disruption culturally; it's much more mysterious how we inherit culture here. We grab it where we can find it - we're insatiable - and there can be a sense here that it's not available to you as readily as it is in other cultures.
Sarah Ruhl
#33. Writing songs always trumps whatever else was on the schedule, it really is the most important and can be so fickle, you have to grab it when it's there.
Beth Moore
#34. Unleash your potential. Seek the opportunity to make a difference. Success is attainable. You just have to reach out and grab it.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#35. Everything has complexity. Everything has simplicity. You just grab it.
Yoko Ono
#36. Paid way too much. But when you see a stuffed pelican, you better grab it 'fore somebody else does.
~New Orleans Requiem
D.J. Donaldson
#37. Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone.
Jim Butcher
#38. When opportunity presents itself grab it. Hold on tight and don't let go.
Celia Cruz
#39. Just remember, when you should grab something, grab it; when you should let go, let go.
Zig Ziglar
#40. In order to make any kind of living, you cannot afford to say no. If anything comes up, you've got to take it; you've got to grab it with both hands because security is really not there.
Tom Goodman-Hill
#41. Human beings fear the unknown. So, whatever's freaking you out, grab it by the balls and say hello.
Justin Halpern
#42. Carpe Dium, I say. Seize the day. Grab it by the throat and rattle its bollocks
Liz Jensen
#43. Basketball Rule #7
Rebounding
is the art
of anticipating,
of always being prepared
to grab it.
But you can't
drop the ball.
Kwame Alexander
#44. I'd like to have a spice garden some day," Rosemary said. "Out of the city, of course. If Guy ever gets a movie offer we're going to grab it and go live in Los Angeles. I'm a country girl at heart.
Ira Levin
#46. Grab it while you can because tomorrow could suck you dry.
Nora Roberts
#48. When I'm looking for something, I say, 'Man that's ugly - nobody would want to rock that.' Then I grab it and I put it on.
Slim Jimmy
#49. Don't wait for the world to give you what you want. Go grab it yourself.
Aboobacker Amani
#50. The smart thing to do would be for us to grab it and run, then eat it in a safe place. But I've learned in the past few weeks that your stomach can pretty easily override your brain.
Susan Ee
#51. The Israeli people are skeptical about the chances of a long-term peace, but if they saw it, they'd grab it. Any Israeli government that wants to be reelected should be interested in a lasting peace.
Jonathan Powell
#52. There was a whole world out there waiting for her-- all she had to do was reach out and grab it.
Zoey Dean
#53. You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
Larry Page
#54. You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
Bear Grylls
#55. Pointing to an imminent dawn he urged him: Come on! Pursue it among the ripples of sleep, where dreams go hiding, and grab it
Luca Ferrarini
#56. He whirled round and round in his rapid love; it pricked him on the breastbone like a needle. He wanted to be shut up in a small space to think about it. He wanted to grab it and eat it like an apple so that nobody else could have it.
Jean Stafford
#57. I regrettably wasted time at university by being overwhelmed and intimidated by the talent of other composers. I felt stuck and didn't know what I was doing there. I enjoyed my experience, but I didn't grab it in the way I would now.
Laura Mvula
#58. The broader your knowledge, the bolder you can approach your challenges. Nobody goes to open the door without carrying a key ... Knowledge is key; grab it ... handle it with care!
Israelmore Ayivor
#59. God gave us the access, but we need to exercise courage to have it. No one lacks the access, but it's only few that have the courage to grab it!
Israelmore Ayivor
#60. Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.
Adyashanti
#62. In every sufferings you've encountered, there will be an opportunity to settle things in a right place. If that comes, grab it. Learn to forgive.
Mahadena Madid
#63. The world seems to belong to those who reach out and grab it with both hands. It belongs to those who do something rather than just wish and hope and plan and pray, and intend to do something someday, when everything is just right.
Brian Tracy
#64. I usually sit around with the guitar in reach and grab it when I get an idea. Sometimes it lasts five minutes, and sometimes it lasts all day.
Alex Turner
#65. Love like the sun can't be held down or captured. Love has no weight nor depth, no height, no length, no matter. Love is like a spark of inspiration, the flittering touch of a butterfly's wing, a sudden, unexpected, ephemeral flash of lightning. Grab it when you can.
Chloe Thurlow
#66. She stumbled then and Geryon caught her other arm, it was like a handful of autumn. He felt huge and wrong. When is it polite to let go someone's arm after you grab it?
Anne Carson
#67. You must remember this feeling, Jon.
The feeling of being happy. It doesn't happen often but when it does, you must grab it with both hands and hold it close. Let it overwhelm you. Don't
over analyse any emotion. But remember it. Always remember it.
Pleasefindthis
#68. The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#69. God Sophie ... If there were any chance we could be together ... If there were any woman I'd want to be the mother of my ... Shit, this is so hard."
"No, Hunt, it's simple. If right now is all we have, if this is all we get, then I'll grab it with both hands and take all I can.
Pamela Clare
#70. You clutch your comfortable excuses, saying, Someday I'll be brave, it won't take a lot, just give me one more chance and this time I'll grab it.
James Alan Gardner
#71. At the end of the day, Fool's Gold is a label that, when I hear something I like, I try to grab it for the label. There's a ton of great music coming out.
A-Trak
#72. She loves. And she doesn't know how to pull it back when you have to, because sometimes you sure as feck have to. Got to grab it up with both hands and pull it back before somebody turns into knives and uses it to cut you to pieces.
Karen Marie Moning
#73. Outside the windows the day was bright: golden sunshine, blue sky, pleasant wind ... I wanted to punch the happy day in the face, grab it by the hair, and beat it until it told me what the hell it was so happy about.
Ilona Andrews
#74. Nothing. You know what that feels like. Reach for it. Grab it. Make it yours.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#75. The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.
The guy who said that was a wise man. He knew what most men don't - Women are powerful creatures who should be handled with care, or they can become very, very dangerous.
Christina Dodd
#76. None of my books has been ever in my head; after they're finished, they go. It's like being a sort of medium; you just grab it when it's there then just release it when it's time to go. There's a lot of instinct, not planning.
Peter Ackroyd
#77. I have literally just been in this place of zero fear. I just believe, as totally hippy bullsh*t as that sounds, anything's possible if you're willing to grab it and make it your own.
Erin Wasson
#78. Life was short, so grab it by the balls and run.
Jill Shalvis
#79. Maybe I'm a prehistoric monster by being an individual. It's highly likely. All I offer to others is their own individuality. Grab it!
John Lydon
#80. People Watch Luck Go by Them and They're Blind - They Never Reach out and Grab It.
George Roy Hill
#81. I enjoy life, and I think that's important. Life is so fragile and so fleeting, and it's over in a minute, and you've just got to grab it and do everything and not worry about it.
Jerry Hall
#82. Innocence to experience. Human nature, baby. Grab it and growl.
Stephen King
#84. Happiness is that butterfly which comes and sit in your garden until you try to grab it, The moment we try to grab it, it flies off, so never try to grab it, just let it go, because it will come back again for search of honey and to give you happiness again.
Debolina Bhawal
#85. Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If it's a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.
Rani Mukerji
#86. What I'm saying is that you can't run from it for ever, pretending you'll always have another chance. Life doesn't always work that way. Sometimes you've got to be brave and grab it while it's there in front of you.
Fiona Harper
#87. Grab it while you can - grab every scrap of happiness while you can
Noel Coward
#88. No matter how much you reach the moon...you can never actually grab it. Even if one knows that something is unreachable it's human nature to want to try over and over...again and again..not giving up...not able to give up...dreaming that someday that hand will reach the moon.
Kiyo Fujiwara
#89. When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.
Carol Burnett
#90. I mean it. If i figure out what makes me happy, i'm not going to waste any more time. I'm just going to grab it. I'm just going to do it.
Rainbow Rowell
#91. I figured out how to get the guitar to rumble ... I put it on the middle pickup, turn the tone know down, grab it by the wang bar, and just shake it on the floor ... a Stratocaster is pretty tough - I wouldn't recommend that anybody do that with their ES-335
Stevie Ray Vaughan
#92. Sometimes you find someplace, someone that makes you feel at home, and you just need to grab it by the reins and hold on for the crazy-ass ride called life.
Kindle Alexander
#93. It was the 60th anniversary of 'Face the Nation.' During his interview, President Obama said, 'Our country doesn't fear the future. We grab it.' Nothing says you grab the future like going on a 60-year-old show hosted by a 77-year-old-man to speak to a 90-year-old audience.
Jimmy Fallon
#94. this is temporary. Even mountains fall. Nothing lasts forever. You got a chance at happiness, even for a week, a month, a year? You grab it and hold on to it for as long as it lasts. I want you to seize." "You
Penny Reid
#95. No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.
Eckhard Pfeiffer
#96. But, I've learned, as we all must, that adults are jerks too. At least some of them. And that's why I feel so strongly that if you have the opportunity to surround yourself with people who aren't jerks, you should not just take it, but grab it, seize it, squeeze the living hell out of it.
Clinton Kelly
#97. Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
Julie Andrews Edwards
#98. I thought I was funny as a kid. I used to play tricks on my brothers - I'd tie a two-shilling piece to a bit of cotton, then pull it away as they went to grab it.
Jo Brand
#99. Wildflower: Don't let people walk all over you, Buttercup. It's your life. If you want something, you need to get out there and grab it by the horns because no one is going to give you what you want on a plate. Good girls always come second.
Cecelia Ahern
#100. It is important in life not to be strong, but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once. If you want something in life, reach out and grab it.
Christopher McCandless
