Quotes About Grip

#1. You stay in the war because it would be shameful to stay out of it. An then grief seizes you and hold its grip till anger has turned you into a soldier.

Erri De Luca

#2. The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

D.H. Lawrence

#3. I say, Watson,' he whispered, 'would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?'
'Not in the least,' I answered in astonishment.
'Ah, that's lucky,' he said, and not another word would he utter that night.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#4. I still try to make the "next" book my "best" book. I want to grip and move you in unexpected ways.

Harlan Coben

#5. Oh, Mama," I said. "What if I don't live that long?" My mother didn't hesitate one second. "By hook or by crook, you will. Having children only increases your grip on the world. It's like reading a thriller. You can't put it down because you have to know how the story turns out.

Jo-Ann Mapson

#6. Leaving you was the last thing I ever wanted to do." He scowled, his grip holding her tighter, moving her farther into the heated wall of his body. "It was the hardest goddamn thing I've ever done. Ever, Claire.

Lara Adrian

#7. The wreath of cigarette smoke which curls about the head of the growing lad holds his brain in an iron grip which prevents it from growing and his mind from developing just as surely as the iron shoe does the foot of the Chinese girl.

Hudson Maxim

#8. She never knows when it might strike. The rage. And when it does, she loses her grip on herself - literally. At times, she could swear she sees another self - shiny black phantom, faceless, as though clad in a bodysuit - leaping out of her, pulling the rest of her in its wake. Over the edge.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#9. I am a crab. I am thinking crabby thoughts. I am tightening my grip on this rock with my big red pincers.

Yahtzee Croshaw

#10. I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride.

Mark Haddon

#11. Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.

Eddie Rickenbacker

#12. Doubt is an awful snake of an emotion. Once it has you in it's grip, it won't let go. It spoils everything.

Peter Watson

#13. But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant's grip - one's faculties rise in revolt - and one pays for outward calm with an almost unbearable inner struggle.

Charlotte Bronte

#14. Then I'm glad I'm your first." She tightened her grip on his hand.
"You're my last, Gabriel. My only.

Sylvain Reynard

#15. Simon was still hoping that somewhere in the Sadowhunter manual was the secret of the Vulcan death grip. After all, as his instructors kept reminding them: All the stories are true.

Cassandra Clare

#16. I brought us all Big Macs," he said happily. "I know you dig 'em, remember?" "What the ... " Tohr tightened his grip on his shellan, just in case ... well, shit, with the way things were going lately, anything could happen. "What are you doing here?" "It's your lucky day, motherfucker.

J.R. Ward

#17. No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.

Salman Rushdie

#18. If you want control, loosen your grip. You're strangling your employees. Letting go is actually holding on.

Richie Norton

#19. I had great faith that perhaps this man Obama would do something, but he is, we're all in the grip of big money.

Malachy McCourt

#20. I want to die, stripped, by myself, of all fantasies. That's the goal. I want to feel what is real, at the end, and only what is real. Grip fiercely with my eyes all that is around me
the people of my intimate life, the objects in the room, without the evasions of fantasies.

Frank Lentricchia

#21. When we learn to loosen our grip and leave our own beaten path, accepting his perfect plan, we give God the opportunity to be our navigator as he reveals the beauty of his creation.

Eve M. Harrell

#22. A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.

Kwame Nkrumah

#23. I was so obsessed and consumed with my grievances that I could not get away from myself and think things out in the light. I was in the grip of that blinding, destructive, terrible thing
righteous indignation.

Anzia Yezierska

#24. Richard made a break for it. 'Sorry,' he said to the stunned guard, as he yanked his arm out of the man's grip, and fled. 'Wrong London.'

Neil Gaiman

#25. Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip

Charles Spurgeon

#26. At one of my lowest points, sugar had a painful grip on me. I'd buy/binge and then beat myself up over my behavior.

Kris Carr

#27. I love when I go on set every day, because the camera people teach me camera terms and grip terms - I learn all these new terms from different people on the set and leave feeling all cool about myself when I go out places.

Ariel Winter

#28. If a man ... would shake and not be shaken, grip and not be gripped, taking care always to squeeze the hand of his adversary as hard as it squeezed him, then he suffered no inconvenience from it.

James K. Polk

#29. Merridew might not have been the slenderest of men or the tallest. But he had grip, he had cunning and like many fat men he had unexpected resources of indignation which he was able to turn on like a flood when they were needed.

John Le Carre

#30. I was slipping, man, and it was definetly time to get a grip.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#31. You can't hold on to all things forever, no matter how hard you grip them.

Cecelia Ahern

#32. You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.

Leonard Cohen

#33. I relish the snap, welcome the burn, don't stop yet it's still my turn. Tighten your grip, make me bleed, this is a hunger I need to feed...

Pepper Winters

#34. Jesus is moved to happiness every time He sees that you appreciate what He has done for you. Grip His pierced hand and say to Him, 'I thank Thee, Saviour, because Thou has died for me.' Thank Him likewise for all the other blessings He has showered upon you from day to day. It brings joy to Jesus.

Ole Hallesby

#35. And so, feeling like men trying to work a jigsaw puzzle blindfolded and using only our butt cheeks to grip the pieces, we left.

Anonymous

#36. I needed to get a grip. Or a camera to memorialize this moment, because I bet I could make a money from a video of him. I could make a fortune ... As long as he didn't open his mouth.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#37. Our society holds to youthfulness with a white-knuckled grip. Ultimately it's all in vain. But the gospel promises us eternal youthfulness in God's presence.

Randy Alcorn

#38. You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.

Joseph Conrad

#39. I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property

Alexis De Tocqueville

#40. When you face your fear, you become familiar with it and familiarity makes it lose its meaning, loosen its grip - fear ceases to be fear.

Gulzar

#41. She thought she was a sensible girl. But some kind of love had taken hold of her and refused to let her go, and it wasn't a happy, easy, joyful thing, it had her in a vice-like grip.

Harriet Evans

#42. For he could scarcely make them move together to grip a twig, and they seemed remote from his body and from him.

Jack London

#43. I know plenty of Hollywood kids who still struggle with being whole. Their lives are never fully their own - always in the grip of a parent who put celebrity ahead of them.

Shawn Amos

#44. Liberate yourself from my vice-like grip!

J.D. Salinger

#45. "a fatal and perhaps fateful error of judgment" " ... this was the last chance for the United Nations to get a grip on themselves and apply the principles of their Charter"

Alec Douglas-Home

#46. What else had I forgotten? What else would come back, knocking me off balance and reminding me how tenuous my grip on reality was?

Susannah Cahalan

#47. Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.

Uta Hagen

#48. Wisdom is not about what you know, but how you know it. If knowledge is a measure of the grasp an individual has of a given subject, wisdom is a measure of his grip. Does he hold his ideas lightly or loosely? Will he let go when they show signs of wear or inappropriateness?

Andrew Hargadon

#49. The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

Aristotle.

#50. I wear Blundstones for hiking. They're like a work boot with a bit of grip, so you can wear them all day. They're quite groovy.

Anna Torv

#51. Society has to get a grip and put a tax on carbon. Of course, there is much that flows from that, and it is a complex situation. The small details of something such as climate change are political and social, and they are a lot about fairness and how we rebalance towards a fairer society.

Richard Rogers

#52. Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Abraham Lincoln

#53. It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to play - the product of idleness and immoral ease. In the grip of that feeling it isn't life we pursue, but the point and purpose of life - its facility, its use.

William H Gass

#54. Dude had serious game." Grip laughs. "No one writes about love and sex and passion like Neruda.

Kennedy Ryan

#55. Callie stared at Daniel. "Bastard!" she hissed. He smiled serenely. His grip was still upon her and he pulled her close, whispering. "The bastard you are about to promise to love, honor, and obey." "I don't love you." "I'm merely shooting for two out of three, and the last two will do nicely.

Heather Graham

#56. ASTROLOGY PREDICTIVE FORE GLANCE KNOW-HOW LIGHT FLASH IS NEEDED TO ALL HUMANS IN THIS MODERN CENTURY TO UNVEIL THE SECRETS OF GOD UNIVERSE FUTURE DIVINE DRAFT.SO,RESEARCH IN ASTROLOGY HAS TO BE DEMANDED ON AROUND THE GLOBE TO HAVE GRIP ON SOUL FACING NEXT MICRO SECOND.

Various

#57. Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip.

Russell Crowe

#58. Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.

Alfred Jarry

#59. Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.

Garrison Keillor

#60. You can't learn something about all women. Sometimes I feel that the older I get, the less of a grip I've got on it.

Jamie Hince

#61. ... I craved to stroke that delicate skin and run my fingers through her tresses as she moaned with hunger. I would grip a thick section of her hair in my hands, wrap it around my fingers, and take her from behind. And she would scream my name.

Kenya Wright

#62. In some ways my life in Willoughby had begun to fade, much the same way a nightmare loses its grip when you find the courage to reach out in the darkness and turn on the light.

Beth Hoffman

#63. Binkie, the one and only. He can hear her rings clacking on the plastic phone, and he chuckles, envisioning with amusement the bejeweled and suntanned manicured grip his grandmother thinks she has on his balls. And she does.

Jardine Libaire

#64. When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it.

Gerhard Richter

#65. In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a different grip.

John Updike

#66. Taught me it's that life is short, and if you want something, you have to reach out with both hands and grip it tightly.

Belle Aurora

#67. It is possible for you to get a grip on the thing that used to have a grip on you. And instead of it controlling you- you are now controlling it.

T.D. Jakes

#68. Got presents. Trip gave me a belt knife with a leather grip, claiming that all boys should have something they can hurt themselves with.

Patrick Rothfuss

#69. My knuckles go white as my grip on the porcelain tightens. Now I know what Desmond cashed that one particular bead in for. Sobriety. Forget the supernatural bounty hunters that are after him; that fucker is mine. That

Laura Thalassa

#70. Go through the things that life gives you to go through, happily. You have to loosen the grip of time, gradually.

Frederick Lenz

#71. When you feel yourself in the grip of an emotion such as jealousy or anger or sorrow, detach yourself from it. Take a step back. When you do that, you can allow the emotion to run through you without causing negative thoughts or actions.

Gary Zukav

#72. Omens. If I were beginning again, starting out in life, I would ignore all omens, neither heeding them nor trying to disable them. If we chose to pass them by, then perhaps they would lose their power, as old gods and goddesses, no longer worshiped, fade away and lose their grip on us.

Margaret George

#73. The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip to haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honor grip, let that aye be your border.

Robert Burns

#74. As I accept the flowers, I release my grip on the balloons, and they bounce gently against the ceiling the way they did before - hovering, annoyed, frustrated, contained by the ceiling and disappointed by the limits of life.

Shannon Mullen

#75. One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.

Robert Harris

#76. Sometimes God takes us down to nothing so that He can give us all we need. Often we try to hold on to everything anyway, creating idols that mean more to us than God does. We don't realize that our grip is actually crushing the things we love. Our stubbornness does more damage than good.

Nicole Sager

#77. Beloved, let the fact of what our Lord suffered for you grip you, and you will never again be the same

Oliver B. Greene

#78. Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

Rabindranath Tagore

#79. Those who know Bertram Wooster best are aware that he is a man of sudden, strong enthusiasms and that, when in the grip of one of these, he becomes a remorseless machine - tense, absorbed, single-minded.

P.G. Wodehouse

#80. Dude! Get a fucking grip, it's just a song!
When had I turned into a 5-yr-old girl? At the very least, I needed to get my libido under control before the song finished, because I didn't think that my raging hard-on would be a good icebreaker. Well, figuratively speaking anyway, I thought smugly.

M.C. Lavocat

#81. War, for all its evil, is at any rate an unanswerable test of strength, like a try-your-grip machine. Great strength returns the penny, and there is no way of faking the result.

George Orwell

#82. He gave her a quick, casual kiss on the cheek first. Then came the hug, and it was the hug that always made Laurel's heart mush. Serious grip, cheek to the hair, eyes closed, just a little sway. Del's hugs mattered, she thought, and made him impossible to resist.

Nora Roberts

#83. Raffe must be thinking something similar because he tightens his grip around my waist as if to say, not this one

Susan Ee

#84. Losing a sense of time is an easy way to lose one's grip and even one's sanity.

Nelson Mandela

#85. He tightened his grip. I'm not good enough for you, Pidge. That doesn't mean I don't trust you, I'm just bracing for the inevitable.

Jamie McGuire

#86. Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. Be thorough in all things, no matter how small or distasteful! The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

Charles M. Schwab

#87. When you choose to focus on today and all the possibilities that lie ahead you automatically release your grip on yesterday. Layers of the past gradually fall away and you are soon set free

Sue Augustine

#88. My good sense bitch slapped my estrogen and told her to get a grip.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#89. My thighs ached from the force of his grip. My back

Tillie Cole

#90. I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer.

Melissa George

#91. You like playing with fire?"
"Yes. It is my favorite element." She extracted her arm from his grip and stepped inside the elevator

Lia Davis

#92. When a woman feels the first grip of her child's dependence upon her, she has forever lost her freedom. If the child dies, a grave shackles her soul through life. If the child lives, the welfare of that child keeps perpetually between her and the sun.

Alice Moore Hubbard

#93. Psalm 46: 10 tells us there is a kind of knowing that comes in silence and not in words-but first we must be still.
The Hebrew word translated "Be still" literally means "Let go of your grip.

Ruth Haley Barton

#94. I tried with every ounce not to, not to weep as I saw my world, everything in it of any importance, vanishing from my grip. In

Peter Heller

#95. In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities.

Cynthia Ozick

#96. Guys like him, the ones who grip the Bible so tight they leave fingernail grooves, they're the ones who are the most scared of their dark side. Always going too far the other way, fighting for the Lord, often just because it gives them an excuse to fight.

David Wong

#97. Together. Even in death. His fingers tightened their grip around her hand. A double statue of silver. Romantic. What would their faces show? Fear? Or love?

Cornelia Funke

#98. If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases and yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily about our ears.

Stephen Fry

#99. Jack, get a grip of yourself.'
I have a grip of myself.' Jack took a grip of himself. It was a most intimate grip; not the kind of grip that you usually take of yourself in public.

Robert Rankin

#100. I turned away from his grip, ashamed that I couldn't tell him the truth. I was the one that wasn't good enough. I would be the one to ruin everything; to ruin him. He would hate me one day, and I couldn't see the look in his eye when he came to that conclusion.

Jamie McGuire