Grip Quotes

372 Grip quotes by 315 unique authors

You think I'm gonna feel better eatin' a carrot? Get a grip. There's two idiots out there trying to kill me, and you think I'm… — Janet Evanovich
Clap! Snap! the black crack! Grip, grab! Pinch, nab! And down down to Goblin-town You go, my lad! Clash, crash! Crush, smash! Hammer and tongs!… — J.R.R. Tolkien
No one would have known, from how he held my hand, [that] over the years of heartache he had hatched a plot to change my… — Andrew Sean Greer
Perfectionism means that you try desperately not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being… — Anne Lamott
As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or… — Mervyn Peake
Face flushed, I shook my head and stared at my white-knuckled grip on the bed. Of all my pet peeves, condescending adults were probably at… — Maggie Stiefvater
None of the bravado he usually showed was there. I guess there was "usually" and then there was being held in the grip of a… — Richelle Mead
...there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended… — Christopher McDougall
Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted. — Melina Marchetta
Guys like him, the ones who grip the Bible so tight they leave fingernail grooves, they're the ones who are the most scared of their… — David Wong
For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do?It takes so much to hold on to… — Harlan Coben
As the alcohol overcomes my mind, I hear the glass bottle shatter on the floor. This seems appropriate since I have obviously lost my grip… — Suzanne Collins
People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature. — Saul Bellow
...a river season will last as long as it takes you to reach your new place. If you get into the river and let it… — Andrew Kaufman
I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain,… — Arthur Conan Doyle
And if I should leave you, for any reason," he added, tightening his grip as she struggled to free her hand, "I will return to… — Sharon Shinn
Since September it's just gotten colder and colder. There's less daylight now, I've noticed too. This can only mean one thing - the sun is… — Bill Watterson
She laid her head against his collarbone, and he kissed her temple. To her shock, she felt a shudder roll through his body about the… — Maya Banks
He gave her a quick, casual kiss on the cheek first. Then came the hug, and it was the hug that always made Laurel’s heart… — Nora Roberts
It was February sixth: eight days until Valentine's Day. I was dateless, as usual, deep in the vice grip of unrequited love. It was bad… — Joan Bauer
Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak… — Bill Watterson
You planning top kill me with a Wiffle bat?" [Carson asked] "Yeah." "Why?" he asked. The bat was shaking in my tight grip. "Because I… — Rachel Vail
sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me . — Maggie Stiefvater
Mrs Bawden yanked me away from the table and dragged me across the food hall. I tried to twist away from her, but she had… — Malorie Blackman
People can attach themselves to something--an idea, another person, a desire--with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts, a grip stronger… — Deb Caletti

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