Grip Quotes
372 quotes by 335 authors
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When a country wants television more than they want clean water, they've lost their grip.
— Lewis Black
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Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of…
— Anthony Bourdain
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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
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The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea…
— Agatha Christie
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On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the only prominent specific…
— David Lack
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You don't even have to be the one praying, but if you get around somebody who really know how to pray-prayer will lift you when…
— T.D. Jakes
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"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put to me by…
— John Updike
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You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.
— Leonard Cohen
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I lick my fingers because I don't like when my hands get slick. Licking my fingers helps me keep a good grip on the ball.
— Steve Nash
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Better to flee from death than feel its grip.
— Homer
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No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots…
— Seneca the Younger
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We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
— Barbara Tuchman
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Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what exists; I make…
— Gerhard Richter
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The benefits [of the resurrection] are innumerable. To list a few: Our illnesses don't seem nearly so final; Our fears fade and lose their grip;…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Each child is poisoned by the society through teaching him ambition. Ambition is a poison far more dangerous than any alcohol can ever be, far…
— Rajneesh
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The entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i. e., an attempt to seek fulfilment of desires through things…
— Meher Baba
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You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don't hold onto the old man, the world; don't…
— Saint Augustine
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We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any…
— Mark Twain
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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…
— Hudson Maxim
Who Wrote These Grip Quotes
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