Hook Quote by Leslie Jamison Download Open image “Whatever we can’t hold, we hang on a hook that will hold it.” — Leslie Jamison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hook
“Tyrants seek the hook on which to hang you. Try not to have hooks.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
for the first time in my life i realize why hangers are called hangers, because after fifteen minutes of trying things on and throwing… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I don't know what it is really... I think I'm just good with hooks. — Christine McVie Copy Share Image
This you can count on...give people enough time, space and rope, and they will hang themselves every single time. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
When people ask what kind of nonfiction I write, I say 'all kinds,' but really I mean I don’t write any kind at all:… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
The pain is what you make of it. You have to find something in it that yields. I understood my guiding imperative as: keep… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I needed people to deliver my feelings back to me in a form that was legible. Which is a superlative kind of empathy to… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
In my own life as a reader I experience real moments of alienation when a writer feels too perfect, or like even the flaws… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I do like arranging things. I like order. I basically like all these things that are the opposite of what people associate with the… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I used to believe that hurting would make you more alive to the hurting of others. I used to believe in feeling bad because… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
“I obsessed, and told myself this obsession was empathy. But it wasn't, quite. It was more like inpathy. I wasn't expatriating myself into another… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
12-step recovery is very focused on abstinence, and that's bled into the broader understanding of treatment. It would be most useful to have multiple… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
We don't want to be wounds ("No, you're the wound!") but we should be allowed to have them, to speak about having them, to… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Forgive yourself for not being the richest, the thinnest, the tallest, the one with the best hair. Forgive yourself for not being the most… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
You know, they always say that the photographer is a hunter of images. That is a flattering image, the idea of a hunter, it's… — Robert Doisneau Copy Share Image
If you were to draw Bugs, the easiest way is to learn how to draw a carrot and then hook a rabbit onto it — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
Dentists tell you not to pick your teeth with any sharp metal object. Then you sit in their chair and the first thing they… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
I hit Damian Fuller with a left hook that left him laid out for 30-45 minutes. They brought oxygen to him, they couldn't wake… — Diego Corrales Copy Share Image
By hook or by crook, we're going to make sure that when I leave this office, that the country is more prosperous, more people… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this story lasted,… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share Image
He who steals a hook shall be hanged; while he who steals the state shall be crowned as prince. — Laozi Copy Share Image
We put out real hip-hop at a time when it was turning into pop or R&B ... We brought the focus back to the… — RZA Copy Share Image
I'm going to let myself off the hook, because if there's one thing that is not my focus at the moment, it's how much… — Emily Procter Copy Share Image
Prasadam's a good little hook in this age of commercialism. When people want something extra, or they need to have something special, prasadam will… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
A bull will try to outwit you. It will stop and hook when the last thing you expect from it is that it will… — Bette Ford Copy Share Image
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