Top 100 Snatch Quotes
#1. A star dies in heaven every time you snatch away someone's dream.
Gloria Naylor
#2. Alexandra sighed. I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours, if you care enough about me to take it.
Willa Cather
#3. Who breathe where you will, come into me and snatch me up to yourself.
Richard Rolle
#4. Grief and pain are like joy and peace; they are not things we should try to snatch from each other. They're sacred.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#5. There is something in us, somehow, that, in the most degraded condition, we snatch at a chance to deceive ourselves into a fanciedsuperiority to others, whom we suppose lower in the scale than ourselves.
Herman Melville
#6. If the war had taught her anything, it was to take nothing for granted: that it wasn't safe to put off what mattered. Life could snatch away the things you treasured, and there was no getting them back.
M.L. Stedman
#7. I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate wilfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth's the right place for love:
I don't know where it's likely to go better.
Robert Frost
#8. El, you are telling me to run away with a man to become his mistress."
"I am telling you to be happy. Even if it lasts only a little while. We must snatch what we can when we have the chance. Life is so very lonely when we don't.
Jennifer Ashley
#9. There's nothing better than a 200 lb snatch, if you know what I mean.
Brad Sherwood
#10. They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
Thomas Gray
#11. People say, 'I love 'Snatch,' I love 'Lock Stock,' but I want to be more than a movie name. I'd love to be more of a household name.
Vinnie Jones
#12. When somebody greedily comes along and thinks that they gonna snatch everything, and you have so many people that have not, the passion that drives me is trying to make them understand that they have to share. So, my art reflects that; the whole reason I do what I do reflects that.
Chuck D
#13. The main element crucial for the survival of life is also a demon in disguise; it will snatch your life away as quickly as you were given it.
Scott A. Butler
#14. He snatched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast now for his burred eyes and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#15. To snatch the passing moment and examine it for signs of eternity is the noblest of occupations.
Louis J. Halle
#16. Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour here, an hour there.
Nell Leyshon
#17. I'd managed to snatch a few more hours of rest, which was all I needed, so I felt fine despite our marathon evening of debauchery.
Nicole Peeler
#18. He looked so boring I didn't dare get too close to him for fear he'd snatch part of my brain
Donald Jans
#19. The assistant, a young man with a single-digit body mass index, looks ill at ease. He visibly struggles to control his urge to snatch the box out of Ove's hands.
Fredrik Backman
#20. The void is ready to snatch you up like a Pac Man machine and Laskshmi is on vacation. You chant Sring - and you get her answering machine.
Frederick Lenz
#21. The machine demanded access codes. As he entered the first, a faint whispering sound startled him, causing him to snatch up the sweep laser. All was silent again. It had sounded like metal on metal. Could he have imagined it? He listened intently.
Christina Engela
#22. Only I can snatch my own weave
Lady Gaga
#23. Some powers come more easily to others, but Matthew rocks at reading energies."
"What?" I set my fork back down. "Our biology teacher is an alien? Holy crap ... all I can think of is that movie The Faculty." Dee choked on her orange juice. "We don't snatch bodies."
I hoped not.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#24. Satan will not ask you to carry a chair and sit with him, instead he will snatch the chair from your hands and dismantle your body with it.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#25. You must always remember that you are Kurien's second wife. His first wife is the dairy. Don't ever forget that and don't make yourself miserable by being jealous. And never, never try to snatch your husband away from his first wife.
Verghese Kurien
#26. Books are like that. Books just are. Sometimes books need to be, they need to exist and so they will body-snatch a writer and climb out through the writer's fingers and into the world where they belong to different people to different degrees and for different reasons. I
Augusten Burroughs
#28. But the child's faith never admits defeat, and it would snatch at the mantle of death itself to turn him back.
Rabindranath Tagore
#29. There's a post-it note stuck on one of the padded arms. I snatch it up and skim Wes's familiar chicken-scratch scrawl. Dude at the store said this one will be better for our backs. Ten different massage settings. We should use it on our balls and see if it doubles as a sex toy. Fingers crossed.
Sarina Bowen
#30. When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.
George Bernard Shaw
#31. There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting.
Henry James
#32. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.
Willa Cather
#33. For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it ...
Patrick O'Brian
#34. Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Philip Dormer Stanhope
#35. While silly ni**as argue over who gon' snatch the crown / Look around my ni**a, white people have snatched the sound / This year I'll probably go to the awards dappered down / Watch Iggy win a Grammy as I try to crack a smile.
J. Cole
#36. Life could snatch away the things you treasured, and there was no getting them back. She began to feel an urgency, a need to seize an opportunity. Before anyone else did.
M.L. Stedman
#37. A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch the knotted cords from the hand of God and deal out murderous blows.
William McFee
#38. Her scent assails me, and I want to drop to my fucking knees. I snatch them before she changes her mind about giving them to me. "You're going home with me.
Dakota Gray
#39. We perhaps need to snatch happiness in little pieces, learning to recognize the elements of happiness and then treasuring them while they last.
James E. Faust
#40. I won't snatch, harm, or scare to death people with you or use checking up on you as an excuse to cause trouble. You're worse than my mother, Rachel."
"Mine, too," Jenks muttered.
Kim Harrison
#41. To snatch the worm from the trap.
Plautus
#42. I felt the worry start to snatch at my breath when I finished talking.
John Green
#43. Gatekeepers will always try to stop you getting in. But as a true hero, you have to snatch victory from death's jaws.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#44. It is in the nature of winds to Snatch and Grasp at things, and Blow Them Away.
Catherynne M Valente
#45. I do not put in long hours at the keys - or very seldom. Instead, I snatch time. I write in the crannies of my life.
Julia Cameron
#46. Snatch is an ugly word," I say. "Like it's going to rip my dick off. Yeah - that is an ugly motherfucking word. But pussy? It just sounds soft. Cuddly. It sounds wonderful. Pussy. I love that word.
Pella Grace
#47. Sweet hour, blessed hour, to carry me to you, and to bring you back to me, long enough to snatch one kiss, and whisper goodbye again.
Emily Dickinson
#48. They were like two poor little leaves in a storm which bore death and annihilation not only to the heads of individuals, but to whole towns and entire tribes. What hand could snatch it and save two small, defenseless children?
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#49. Abby stared at me, her fingers going all grabby like she wanted to snatch the phone and save me. No girl had ever wanted to save me before. I glanced away, because her worried expression made me want to laugh, but when I wasn't looking at her, the thought of it made me want to kiss her.
Ophelia London
#50. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
Alexander Pope
#51. Mom used to tell us stories of these bogeymen when we were kids, and Lizzy would crawl into my bed so she could fall asleep. Stories of the monsters who forced us underground, and when the force field faltered, would snatch us from our homes.
Katherine McIntyre
#52. It seems to me that every time we humans announce that here is the thing that makes us unique
our featherless bipedality, our tool-using, our language
some other species comes along to snatch it away. If modesty were a human trait, we'd have learned to be more cautious over the years.
Karen Joy Fowler
#54. I always try and keep a jacket from everything I do. I've still got my original coat from 'Snatch' and my jacket from 'This Is England'.
Stephen Graham
#55. What is he, twelve?"
"Fourteen."
"Well, no wonder, then. Hormones are raging! All you want to do when you're fourteen is snatch up a broadsword and hack something to pieces, then find a big rock and fuck it to death.
Sarah Black
#56. If I'd stayed there, would I always have been happy? No, I suppose not. People move away, grow older, die, and the bright belief that there will be another marvelous thing around each corner fades. It is now or never; we must snatch at happiness as it flies.
J.L. Carr
#57. You're late, asshole!" he said cheerfully. He tried to snatch the six-pack out of Cheyenne's hands but, being shorter by at least half a foot, ended up jumping in the air, his limbs flailing in an exaggerated manner.
Melissa Noel
#58. Push something in someone's face, and they will shove it away reflexively. Threaten to snatch it away from them, and sometimes they become convinced that it is what they want.
Frances Hardinge
#59. J.W. and Roy didn't just snatch the childhood away from Emmett; they stole it from every single black child in Mississippi.
Bernice L. McFadden
#60. Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.
Nathan Myhrvold
#61. The Tippoo's life seemed charmed. He stepped in blood, but none of it was his and it seemed as though he could not die, but only kill, and so he did, cold-bloodedly, deliberately, exultantly defending his city and his dream against the barbarians who had come to snatch his tiger throne.
Bernard Cornwell
#62. When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago.
Joe Rogan
#63. My mother always says: "You know better, so you'll be punished. Your friends don't know better, so they won't be punished. They can go snatch chains and they'll be fine. But if you snatch chains, you'll end up in jail because you know better."
Chris Rock
#64. Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#65. Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride on air. You have only to reach out and snatch one.
Rod McKuen
#66. This is the only sun that you will ever see again. But a millennium of nights will be yours to see light as no mortal has ever seen it, to snatch from the distant stars as if you were Prometheus an endless illumination by which to understand all things.
Anne Rice
#67. Praise is declaration, a victory cry, proclaiming faith to stand firm in the place God has given you. Praise is a proclamation that the enemy's intent to plunder you will not rock you. Praise declares that you will not be moved by the enemy's attempt to snatch you away.
Darlene Zschech
#68. I listened intently. He chose to skim past the parts that would put his ridiculous worries to rest, and I chose to snatch the book from his hand and read those parts aloud to him.
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#69. Are you taking human growth hormones or something?" I snatch my hand back, fighting another rush of nervousness. "There's no way that huge man monster is fitting inside me!
Elle Kennedy
#70. If you want to make room in your life for peace and patience, take small steps on organization, know the value of time. Snatch, seize and enjoy every minute of it!
Emilie Barnes
#71. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never lose it or perish throughout the ages. [To all eternity they shall never by any means be destroyed.] And no one is able to snatch them out of My hand.
Max Lucado
#72. You snatch from life what you can while you are young, for if you wait for better times to come tomorrow, you wait in vain.
V.C. Andrews
#73. Ever since I was younger I wanted to be on stage, singing my songs in a glittering costume. And that happened and is still happening. I have to remember that this is what I wished for and be grateful because there are 500 other girls right behind me that are ready to snatch it up.
Katy Perry
#74. thinking I meant to snatch this treat for myself, but I pushed
Diana Gabaldon
#75. Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord's Prayer is about.
N. T. Wright
#76. Them papers are clean as a unicorn's snatch!
Ginn Hale
#77. Shit, I could jerk you up from there, pop you like a whip. Pop you so hard your snatch will snap off and smack the wall."
"So," Vanilla said. "How was charm school?
Joe R. Lansdale
#78. Amazing, how much more difficult it was to extend his arm twelve inches and touch her hand than it was to snatch a speeding Snitch from midair ...
J.K. Rowling
#79. I had not learned then that death avoids a man who desires it, to snatch at him whose heart holds fast to life.
Mika Waltari
#80. You can't get bored of winning. You can win 10 games in a row but you keep the same will to snatch the 11th. You always need more.
Zinedine Zidane
#81. The only time I get afraid is when I am at the ocean. I get a little nervous when I'm in the water because I always feel like something is going to bite or snatch me.
Texas Battle
#82. Why give me this life and then give me this disease? Why give me joy and beauty of you and Charlie and then snatch it away? It's like showing someone a glimpse of what life could be like and in the next breath telling them that it can never happen
Michael Robotham
#83. Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.
Samuel Johnson
#84. She rose and she remembered, remembered and rose, until she had gone too far for fear to snatch her back.
Peni R. Griffin
#85. But you helped me and Arik. Why would you do that if you really feel that way? (Geary)
What can I say? It's so much more enjoyable to snatch victory from the hands of the gullible. You guys make the most delightful sound of agony when you're betrayed. (Solin)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#86. War in its essence is another form of capitalism. Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them. So much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group.
Bell Hooks
#87. snatch of an old Bob Dylan lyric occurred to him, something about the price you had to pay to keep from going through everything twice.
Stephen King
#88. Softly, reassuringly, he comforted his friend, as they waited for death together. As if the Don could truly snatch the life of Genco Abbandando back from that most foul and criminal traitor to man.
Mario Puzo
#89. The Blue Miracle? Don't make me laugh. I don't believe in miracles. That's why I'll snatch my victory by force.
Yana Toboso
#90. We did not ask if he had seen any monsters, for monsters have ceased to be news. There is never any shortage of horrible creatures who prey on human beings, snatch away their food, or devour whole populations; but examples of wise social planning are not so easy to find.
Thomas More
#91. I cannot expiate my sin, yet I am compelled to try. My mind will not let me rest. There must be something I could have done, some way I could have acted, something I could have changed to snatch victory from bitter defeat.
Juliet Marillier
#92. There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
Wyclef Jean
#93. Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.
Xun Zi
#94. How Time doth lash us with sharp pains,
Set loose our teeth, snatch wisps of hair, dim eyes
And finally bend our backs toward earth
To find the fittest place for burial.
William Batchelder Greene
#96. A good game will always snatch my attention. No matter the sport, the spirit of competition and audience is nostalgic and relaxing to me.
Chuck Inglish
#97. We will snatch purpose from the jaws of futility.
Andrew Hussie
#98. When you tell your dreams you gotta tell people you trust, 'cause sometimes they'll snatch your dream right away from you.
Michelle Muriel
#100. That explains it." Actually, of course, it didn't explain anything, but whenever doctors are confused about something, which is really more frequently than any of us would do well to think about, they always snatch at something in the vicinity of the case and add, "That explains it.
William Goldman
