It's strange how a person can have a distinct distaste for herself, but still she clutches on to life. — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from… — Bob Marshall Copy Share Image
In a world of war, pain and suffering, all I want for Christmas is an underwater watch and a silver clutch rod… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
it may not always be so; and i say that if your lips, which i have loved, should touch another's, and your… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Well, there it is. That's Jeeves. Where others merely smite the brow and clutch the hair, he acts. Napoleon was the same. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from… — Velupillai Prabhakaran Copy Share Image
Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
That was one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created… — Fay Wray Copy Share Image
Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be… — William James Copy Share Image
Some people you just had to embrace, in some way or another, had to bite into the muscle, to remain sane in… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Sweet April-time-O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow Of promise, and red lips with longing paled, And backward-hidden hands… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ripe vegetables were magic to me. Unharvested, the garden bristled with possibility. I would quicken at the sight of a ripe tomato,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It hurts to love wide open stretching the muscles... It hurts to thwart the reflexes of grab, of clutch; to love and… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
You know not, yet, the sort of love that strikes like a lightning bolt; that clutches hold of you by the heart,… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
I'm not going to get a hit every time in clutch situations, but over the course of the season I'll get a… — Albert Belle Copy Share Image
Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat,… — Dorothy Gilman Copy Share Image
She was tough in the best sense of the word. She'd taken blows, the disappointments, and had worked her way through them.… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky.... hope is an ax you… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is an ugly sin, repugnant to those who find no temptation in it, as well as to many past offenders who… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I'm in the collard green 6 cornbread in the guts Got the Halloween kicks trick or treat in the clutch — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
