Best Clutch Quotations
129 Clutch quotes by 114 unique authors
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You know not, yet, the sort of love that strikes like a lightning bolt; that clutches hold of you by the heart, as irrevocably as…
— Juliet Marillier
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This is a long goodbye, yet not time enough. I have no aptitude for this. I cannot learn this. I would hold on, and hold…
— Juliet Marillier
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How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!
— Margaret Mitchell
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It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was…
— Virginia Woolf
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Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the monsoon.
— Patricia McCormick
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There's no point in comforting words, in telling her she'll be all right. She's no fool. Her hand reaches out and I clutch it like…
— Suzanne Collins
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Crank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you, squeezing not hard…
— Ellen Hopkins
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The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just that time when God can't give…
— C.S. Lewis
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She was tough in the best sense of the word. She'd taken blows, the disappointments, and had worked her way through them. Some people, he…
— Nora Roberts
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Good. Now the first thing you do is press in the clutch and slide the gear into reverse." She placed his hand on the gear…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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It's strange how a person can have a distinct distaste for herself, but still she clutches on to life.
— Franny Billingsley
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How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.
— Lawrence Durrell
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Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!
— Margaret Atwood
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Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks at life, sees…
— W.N.P. Barbellion
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...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.
— Stanislaw Lem
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That earns him a smack with my book bag. "Ow." He clutches his arm. "What do you have in there? Books?" A grin snakes across…
— Julie Anne Peters
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Some people you just had to embrace, in some way or another, had to bite into the muscle, to remain sane in their company. You…
— Michael Ondaatje
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Eventually your body will learn the alliances it has to make with itself,' Kenny had said - as if Cam was a factory full of…
— Neal Shusterman
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All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by two emotions--fear or love. In truth there are only two emotions--only two words in the…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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I feel the urge, familiar now, to wrench myself from my body and speak directly into her mind. It is the same urge, I realize,…
— Veronica Roth
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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 outdone, and millions…
— William James
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Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with animal prints and…
— Diane Ackerman
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People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.
— Nate Silver
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SAFETY-CLUTCH, n. A mechanical device acting automatically to prevent the fall of an elevator, or cage, in case of an accident to the hoisting apparatus.
— Ambrose Bierce
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