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Quotes About Gripped

If you're reading this on a screen, fuck off. I'll only talk if I'm gripped with both hands.
~ Joshua Cohen
One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America.
~ Ruhollah Khomeini
The snake…had reached out intentionally to this thing and put it in its stomach, rendering itself immobile. Akane was gripped by an ominous feeling. What if the snake symbolized her own future? What then?
~ K?ji Suzuki
The weapon of criticism obviously cannot replace the criticism of weapons. Material force must be overthrown by material force. But theory also becomes a material force once it has gripped the masses.
~ Karl Marx
Shivering as she gripped the handle, she looked around the cabin one last time. The uneasiness was still there. Why wouldn't it leave her be?
~ Deborah Grace Staley
Fear seized up inside of me; it felt like a fist clenched tight around my heart.
~ Jenny Han
It is only as we see His holiness, His absolute purity and moral hatred of sin, that we will be gripped by the awfulness of sin against the Holy God. To be gripped by that fact is the first step in our pursuit of holiness.
~ Jerry Bridges
If frightening sensations are not given the time and attention they need to move through the body and resolve or dissolve, the individual will continue to be gripped by fear.
~ Peter A. Levine
There it sat under my skull with my mind gripped in its tentacles. Sometimes dormant. Sometimes awakening and squeezing. Again I would react
~ Francine Prose
Fear gripped her like hands around the neck, the way it could only happen in an unfamiliar room in the pitch black of night.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
He was gripped by what he could think of only as numbness, though he knew it was a feeling compounded of emotions so deep and intense that they could not be acknowledged because they could not be lived with.
~ John Williams
I usually turn over when ads appear on television. But - very rarely - I am gripped by a particularly beautiful one, and wonder if art historians of the future will point to these televisual delights as our best art.
~ Alice Roberts
The room was crowded and sweltering. Fans whirred impotently. Men were hooking fingers into collars to let in air. Sweat coated faces. Myron looked at Brenda. She looked small and alone and scared, but she would not look away. He felt her take his hand. He gripped back. She stood ramrod straight now, her head high. The
~ Harlan Coben
Of all the things I'd imagined in nightmares and dreams of dead things, the woman who gripped my leg was the worst and my last.
~ Brian Hodge
A bone-deep weariness gripped the assassin
~ Steven Erikson
A powerful rage gripped us, seemingly coming fae nowhere. No, not fae nowhere. Strong emotions ay this type can only be generated by junk or the possibility of its absence. — What the fuck's this shite?
~ Irvine Welsh
Fear gripped Harry, like some old dope-pusher promising a terrible high.
~ Clive Barker
When you get right down to it, there's something uniquely satisfying in being gripped by a great plot, in begrudging whatever real-world obligations might prevent you from finding out what happens next.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
The harried solicitor gripped the rim of his hat as he held it against his chest and peered anxiously at Amanda over the top of his spectacles. "Yes, Miss Darlington," he admitted meekly. "It was a grievous mistake made by one of our less experienced clerks. The letter had been misfiled under Darlingscott, a client
~ Unknown
The harried solicitor gripped the rim of his hat as he held it against his chest and peered anxiously at Amanda
~ Unknown
I have concluded that the more we seek the Lord, with a passion for His worthiness, the more we are gripped with our neediness. Adoration cultivates desperation.
~ Daniel Henderson
Fear gripped her like hands around the neck, the way it could only happen in an unfamiliar room in the pitch black of night.
~ Elin Hilderbrand, Silver Girl