Quotes About Vise

#1. A cold sense of desolation lodged itself somewhere in the base of my throat, and suddenly I was no longer enraged or devastated, but terrified of the immense, throbbing loneliness that was only now closing like a vise on my internal organs.

Anonymous

#2. Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

Bruce Sterling

#3. What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise.

William James

#4. We're going to build the bridge to the 21st century, we have to make our children free - free of the vise grip of guns and gangs and drugs; free to build lives of hope.

William J. Clinton

#5. The way he loved was almost like a vise, a weight; at times she felt it verged on codependence--that his identity, his value system, all of it very much hinged on her.

Nickolas Butler

#6. Miraculously, though, the same coral heads that split the ship's sides held the wounded vessel fast, upright as if she were in the jaws of a vise.

Kieran Doherty

#7. Perl is like vise grips. You can do anything with it but it is the wrong tool for every job.

Bruce Eckel

#8. If you give yor work life, your work will give you life. Vise-versa

Maria Renteria

#9. I was surprised he could do any amount of labor wearing the pants he had on. I don't understand skinny jeans for men. Who wants to walk around with their balls in a vise?

C.J. Roberts

#10. I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Others hate me.

Rodney King

#11. Because your balls are in a vise and I'm the only one who can pull them out," I said. He arched an elegant silver eyebrow. "Okay," I said. "That came out a little more homoerotic than I intended." "Indeed," said the Merlin.

Jim Butcher

#12. And feigned innocence, the vise that keeps women "girls" well into their sixties.

Frances Mayes

#13. Soon now, as the Negro awakens a little more and sees the vise that he's in, sees the bag that he's in, sees the real game that he's in, then the Negro's going to develop a new tactic.

Malcolm X

#14. It occurred to me then that you is everything you are in this life at every moment. And that includes loving somebody. If you can't be your own self, how can you love somebody? How can you be free? That pressed on my heart like a vise right then. Just mashed me down.

James McBride

#15. There is no fire like lust, no vise like hatred, no trap like delusion, and no galloping river like craving.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#16. I just had his hand in a vise," I protested indignantly. "It wasn't like I had a dagger in his ribs. 'Hand in a vise' is simple assault or, in my case, self-defense. 'Dagger in the ribs' is attempted murder. My family did teach me the difference.

Lisa Shearin

#17. It was as if her heart was in a vise, squeezing tighter and tighter until she couldn't breathe. The worst part was she was the one who had tightened the screws.

Jenna Harte

#18. I felt squeezed in that vise along with the mass of everyday things and people, and I had a bad taste in my mouth, a permanent sense of nausea that exhausted me, as if everything, thus compacted, and always tighter, were grinding me up, reducing me to a repulsive cream.

Elena Ferrante

#19. Aft the more honour, forward the better man

Horatio Nelson

#20. There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.

Elias Canetti

#21. The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. When making the first album, I think I wrote a song about every six months. The first album was so much about the vocals carrying it.

Florence Welch

#23. I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.

David Bowie

#24. It was consumer pull, rather than business push, that would determine where ads appeared.

David A. Vise

#25. Unless it's a dead-straight short putt, you should focus on a spot somewhere along the line you want to roll the ball on.

Ernie Els

#26. Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

Shirley Jackson

#27. Preparation for life is so important. Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity. Opportunity is all around us. Are you prepared?

Earl Nightingale