Quotes About Clamp

#1. I hope we never see the day when photo shops sell little schema grills to clamp onto our viewfinders; and the Golden Rule will never be found etched on our ground glass.

Charles H. Traub

#2. All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest available resources wisely, and clamp down on tax evasion.

Victor Ponta

#3. For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.

Bruce Springsteen

#4. We won't be having an affair." I stare dumbly, certain I just heard an organ in my body crack in my chest. His hands clamp around me, and he crushes me to his body as he slides his nose along the shell of my ear. "When I take you, you'll be mine," he says, a soft promise in my ear.

Katy Evans

#5. And the New Republic or the New-New Republic or the Republic We Got This Week will clamp down hard and then those people with the so-called better way will become the brave rebel alliance and the Republic will become the enemy and the wheel will turn once more.

Chuck Wendig

#6. How could I have missed it? Easy. Deep in grief over Casey leaving, I'd gone on automatic pilot this morning, barely glancing in the mirror as I brushed my hair, smoothed on my makeup. I clamp down on the impulse to dig out a mirror and check out the 'mark.

Magda Alexander

#7. History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

Gary Ross

#8.
Tell them to drop their guns and fuck off out of my way.
Allow him to
I clamp my arm tight.
That's not what I said.
She gets it right this time.
Drop your guns and fuck off out of his way.
They drop their guns and fuck off out of my way.

Charlie Huston

#9. We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world.

Sergey Brin

#10. Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#11. When I moped for too long, letting the poor-me blues clamp around my ankles and drag me down to very bad places, he would fight to get me back,

Piper Kerman

#12. The only way to clamp down on my energy is to erase my emotions, and so I fold them each away, one by one. My sorrow turns to anger, then to ice-cold fury. My soul curls in one itself in defense. I am gone. I am truly gone.
I am not sorry.

Marie Lu

#13. Jack stood by his shoulder, very much aware of the scent of Ullman's cologne. All my men wear English Leather or they wear nothing at all came into his mind for no reason at all, and he had to clamp his tongue between his teeth to keep in a bray of laughter.

Stephen King

#14. I do find the sight of small children eating very moving. Watch the way their tiny fingers clamp the cutlery. The exaggeratedly precise way they move cups or glasses to their lips.

John Niven

#15. When coffee became popular in Oxford and the coffee houses selling it began to multiply, the university authorities tried to clamp down, worrying that coffee houses promoted idleness and distracted members of the university from their studies

Tom Standage

#16. No, I was just thinking how much I like hearing you talk about numbers. It's soothing. Dove was tempted to lean her head back in a friendly way and clamp on his cock like a toothless, sucking pit bull.

Debra Anastasia

#17. I cannot believe they haven't yet come up with a better screening process than the mammogram. If a man had to put his special parts inside a clamp to test him for anything, I think they would come up with a new plan before the doctor finished saying, Put that thing there so I can crush it.

Ellen DeGeneres

#18. Cathy Clamp is a visionary author, creating new worlds that are both strong and vividly drawn. Adventure and excitement at its best.

Yasmine Galenorn

#19. Clamp its jaws on the Black Hawk's landing gear and drag it underwater.

James Patterson

#20. I nod"Maybe.But I'm pretty sure mom won't consent to a field trip across the country with my hot boyfriend.Especially not back to Florida."I clamp my mouth shut so fast my teeth should be chipped. He grins."You think I'm hot?"
"my mom thinks you are." Except, mom's not the one blushing right now.

Anna Banks

#21. I clamp down on those memories. I embrace fresher torments. But my shrink warned me about this, how anger and depression get misassigned, and how if I don't work through shit it'll keep resurfacing in ways I don't expect.

Hugh Howey

#22. It is necessary to ensure that the requirement to combat terrorism is not used to clamp down on freedom of expression, legitimate dissent, freedom of association and so on.

Mary Robinson

#23. The jaws' hooked clamp and fangs Not to be changed at this date; A life subdued to its instrument.

Ted Hughes

#24. Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber.

Terry Pratchett

#25. I shaved this morning for precisely that reason. I was like, 'Well, you never know when someone is going to clamp down on your calf and try to suck out the snake poison.

John Green

#26. A planing stop can be as simple as a stick mortised into the benchtop. Here are some other ways to set up an adjustable planing stop on your bench: drive a couple screws into your benchtop, screw a deadbolt door lock to the end of the bench, clamp a piece of scrap to the benchtop.

Christopher Schwarz

#27. Where will I sit? Sit? Why, on this comfortable chaise longue I've carried here for you in my pocket, Your Highness, so glad you asked. I clamp my mouth shut, struggling not to say it aloud.

Amie Kaufman

#28. Perhaps it is true that the world is made new again every day but our minds are not. The clamp that holds me will not let me go.

Jeanette Winterson

#29. Beautiful enough to lure in prey, he said. Strong enough to clamp down and destroy, he said.

Tahereh Mafi

#30. Until we can be together again ... we wait ... and believe!

CLAMP

#31. Do you think someone someone who'd sacrifice himself so easily, is worth as the same as the life someone so precious?
In other words, you consider her an absolute fool who would try to protect a worthless trash as yourself.

CLAMP

#32. If you make a wish and if you keep on making the same wish, it will be granted. That's how strong human wishes are.

CLAMP

#33. You'll stay here with me?" "Yeah" "If I fall asleep like this ... the first thing i'll see when I wake up ... will be you.

CLAMP

#34. There is something you can do. You can smile. Sakura-chan, your smile is like food to a starving man for Syaoran-kun.

CLAMP

#35. Did that high-and-mighty attitude of yours come attached to you when you were spawned?!
Was it a bug your programmer couldn't fix?!

CLAMP

#36. You can reach, but you cannot touch. It's reflected in your eye, but the message is never conveyed. It is something you decided for yourself, but that does not change the pain you feel. Even so ... you must protect what you must protect.

CLAMP

#37. Nothing is more painful than to wander in the world without the one you love.

CLAMP

#38. There are no 'ifs' in combat. When you win, you win, When you lose, you lose.

CLAMP

#39. However if you wish unhappiness on someone else then the very strength of that wish will make you unhappy.

CLAMP

#40. All happiness and all unhappiness ... stems from one having a desire. And that is why mankind will always make their wishes.

CLAMP

#41. To get mad at being called a "little boy" is a proof that you indeed are one

CLAMP

#42. Oh Mokona, you're such a tease! ~Fai D. Flowright

CLAMP

#43. Girls are always at their best smiling.

CLAMP

#44. Kurogane: You just said "Buu" with your mouth, right? That isn't whistling.
Fai: I don't know how to whistle.

CLAMP

#45. If you kill Syaoran-kun, it will all be over! You and I will be over too!

CLAMP

#46. You can't know now what the results will be in the future. So for now, don't even think about it. Think about what you want to do and what you can do. That's very different from 'running away'. What do you want to do?

CLAMP

#47. It is not 'strength' to try to take everything upon oneself.

CLAMP

#48. Living things are restrained by chains. The laws of nature, the flow of time, the vessel known as your "body", and the existence called your mind. The one chain that people can wield, words.

CLAMP

#49. People are the world's strangest creature.

CLAMP

#50. Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.

CLAMP

#51. Oh this? It's a 'bookworm.'
They live in books, and they love to eat important or valuable words.

CLAMP

#52. I can't do much yet, but even if I can do a little to help ... I want to give it all I have! If a person doesn't do anything, they never get any better. Doing one little thing, taking one little step forward ... I gotta believe it will help build a better future!

CLAMP

#53. Yuuko, speaking to Fai: To all the young ones in your group, you are no longer someone who passes through their lives and is forgotten. You have become someone very important to them. Your hardships are their hardships too.

CLAMP

#54. I am not... your Sakura

CLAMP

#55. But the aspect of secrets is they leak out. If they didn't leak, they wouldn't be interesting.

CLAMP

#56. Kurogane: For all my life ... I've wanted strength. I didn't want those things precious to me to be taken away from me anymore. But, to have strength means to invite disaster to come to you. And strength alone can't really protect you.

CLAMP

#57. But there's one thing you must remember. Whether you want it or not, once you have created bonds between you and other people, those bonds will never disappear.

CLAMP

#58. Kurogane, to Fai: You, shut up!! If you want to die that much, I'll kill you myself! But until that day, you're going to live!

CLAMP

#59. At that moment, I was sure ... he would cry. It seems that Sakura-chan is the most important person in the world to Syaoran-kun. So when she said, "who are you?" I felt certain he would cry. I wonder if he's crying now.

CLAMP

#60. If one wishes for revenge, before you know it, a hurt as bad as the one wished for will come upon the wisher.

CLAMP

#61. Just because you know it [my past]... doesn't mean that my wounds are a weight you have to carry.
~Kurogane-san

CLAMP

#62. The guy who isn't in the know can't understand ... how hard it is to be in the know and still not say.

CLAMP

#63. To change yourself means to change the future.

CLAMP

#64. Ruri: Is it possible that Shuichiro gets more cuddly every day?
Hari: Indubitably ...

CLAMP

#65. Nobody can know ... just how heavy a burden trying to protect another human being can be. I was still a child. I couldn't have understood the real meaning of my promise.

CLAMP

#66. Doing or not doing something - they are similar. Both involve an action and sincerity.

CLAMP

#67. Fai: *punches Kurogane* That was payback, Kuro-sama!
Kurogane: *grins* You're gonna get punched out, you creep!

CLAMP

#68. ... and once again ... we will head toward that time.

CLAMP

#69. Because we knew you were waiting, we did our best so that we'd return.

CLAMP

#70. Never lose sight of your wish! And if you want to see the wish fulfilled ... you must choose! No matter how painful the choice may be.

CLAMP

#71. But it is a very difficult thing to change the future.
The slightest turn of phrase ... action and the human soul.
The future changes direction based on those things.

CLAMP

#72. You can't give more or take more than the exact worth! If you give more than you need to ... you'll be hurt! In your body in the material world ... in your luck in the world of the stars ... and in your soul in the heavenly world!

CLAMP

#73. Thanks to the choice you made, another future was set in place. And the choice you have yet to make, will decide another ...

CLAMP

#74. But then, crying when you need to cry is another way to show strength.

CLAMP

#75. It's tough when anyone is hurt, it's painful and awful.

CLAMP

#76. Only with a clear mind will you be able to see who is truly in your heart.

CLAMP

#77. Why do I keep thinking of her alluva sudden?! Especially when the only time my face gets red and my heart starts puonding ... is when I see him! -Syaoran Li

CLAMP

#78. All who make wishes are the same. When one wish comes into conflict with someone else's wish ... then one must make a choice. Either abandon one's own wish ... or crush the other's wish for the sake of your own.

CLAMP

#79. If it isn't something precious, it doesn't serve as a price!" "But if it means I'm throwing away the most precious thing I have ... what's the good of it?

CLAMP

#80. If you're searching for the truth, throw out all your prejudices and just gather the facts. If you do that, you'll be able to see the real truth.

CLAMP

#81. The mutual warmth that is unknown, a single glass panel ... declares the beginning of everything

CLAMP

#82. No matter how painful it might be ... I'll do everything in my might! So please, you too, act according to what you believe in!

CLAMP

#83. Even from just a little thing, it's still possible to die.

CLAMP

#84. After the way you accepted the mission, I know I can't convince you otherwise. So, instead ... come back alive. We'll be here ... waiting for you to come back.

CLAMP

#85. A fair price ... is nothing to be trifled with." "A price, once paid, cannot be returned.

CLAMP

#86. Most of the people who feel they are unhappy now are holding a grudge and wishing unhappiness on that person.

CLAMP

#87. Nothing in this world is a coincidence. Everything is Hitsuzen.
*Hitsuzen meaning inevitability, destiny, or fate, as being the driving force in the world

CLAMP

#88. Subaru ... thinks that you're special. That's why I want to trust you ...
Don't forget ... There is a definite crime that can't be made up ... There's no one who can't love someone ... Sei-chan ...
-Hokuto Sumeragi

CLAMP

#89. If I can protect, I want to protect.

CLAMP

#90. The princess is strong. And because she's strong, she's fragile. If somebody doesn't teach her that fact, she'll break.

CLAMP

#91. Even though this world is narrow, it is wide ... to those who understand.
This world isn't the only one.

CLAMP

#92. Good guys are either taken or gay

CLAMP

#93. Even knowing all, being forbidden to tell. Even wanting to help, rescue is impossible. I know of no condition more painful than that.

CLAMP

#94. Humans create terrible things. Why do they make things that only bring them pain? It's because they don't know what's comfortable anymore. So perhaps they don't know that they are in pain ...

CLAMP

#95. The instand one gives up, that is when it all ends. Keep wishing. Wish strongly! Wish hard! Do not let it matter what kind of being you are! Do not let it matter what pressures others put on you! Continue to wish for that which your heart truly desires!!

CLAMP

#96. However, there is something stronger than an unaccomplished future someone saw in a dream and that is a wish of a human heart.

CLAMP

#97. Wanting someone else to eat the things you have cooked is the same as wanting that person to know you.
I figured eating your own cooking is a way of getting to know yourself.

CLAMP

#98. Instead of regretting what we cannot do, it is better to do anything we can do. Even if what we do does not bring us to our goal, it brings us much closer to it.

CLAMP

#99. Because I wished for everyone to live, I did everything I could.

CLAMP

#100. I believe in the princess when she says that she'll return to those waiting for her. So i'll wait. It's more painful to wait than to go along on the trip." 'Well, I can't wait.' "Are you that afraid to believe in someone?

CLAMP