Quotes About Grip

Jack, get a grip of yourself.' I have a grip of myself.' Jack took a grip of himself. It was a most intimate grip; not the kind of grip that you usually take of yourself in public.

Sometimes I wonder about that grip. The hand was hard and rough, trapping mine within it. And yet it was warm, and not unkind, as it held mine. Only firm. It did not let me slip on the icy streets, but it did not let me escape my fate, either.

Stop for a moment and contemplate in horror the endless list of attachments that you have become a prisoner to. Think of concrete things and persons, not abstractions. Once your attachment had you in its grip, you began to strive with every waking minute of your life to rearrange the world around you so that you could attain and maintain the objects of your attachment.

O tempo é algo escorregadio: segure com firmeza, ou seu encadeamento pode escoar de suas mãos para sempre.

cramped compartment for the overhead lockers. As Alex reached up for his own travel bag, the Game Boy almost fell out of his grip. Troy's head snapped around. Alex saw a flash of alarm in her eyes. "Be careful with that!" she

For me, I like messing around with different shapes and things but I think what I've come to realize is I need a putter that just sits nicely in my hands.

If you think you own something, that's like walking on quicksand.

using pressure points to unlock his grip.

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 life forever. He held his grip and would not let me go. I do not know what joins the parts of an atom, but it seems what binds one human to another is pain.

To ACCROACH  (ACCRO'ACH)   v.a.[accrocher, Fr.]To draw to one as with a hook; to gripe, to draw away by degrees what is another's.

There were so many people, so much to navigate, and as the distance fluctuated between us his hand kept slipping, down my arm to my wrist. And maybe he was going to let go as people pressed in on all sides, but all I could think was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of. So as I felt his fingers loosening around my wrist, I just wrapped my own around them, right, and held on

Even those modern secularists and liberals who hate the metaphysics illustrated by Plato's allegory of the cave thrill to the idea that the common man is in the grip of illusion and ought to be ruled by philosopher-kings, even if their idea of a philosopher-king would have filled Plato with abject horror.

Golf has always been a game where you have to control both ends of the club.

Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.

As Karim Lala often said,'learn to clench the world in your fist. open your palm only when you have to receive money

Mientras su nieto le cogía la mano, el juez pensó en lo firme que era el apretón de un niño. «Cómo se aferran a la vida —pensó—, no como los adultos.»

I always knew I'd be preaching to the choir. Slap the title 'Dumpty' on a book of political humor, and your bias is glaringly obvious. From the beginning, I've intended these verses for people who oppose our current President, hoping to briefly yank them out of their chronic depression at his persistent grip on executive power.

The black Russian wolf-the oborotni-seemed wired together out of broomsticks, but the grip that matched Keith's was as unyielding as the ambition in his eyes.

I will never possess my hand.

Alekk turned back to me. There was a hint of softness in his eyes, but as he gripped my wrist it disappeared.

I can't really grip the ball with my left hand.

The big polluters are confident in their grip on Congress. They have basically achieved control of the Republican Party, and as a result, they are basically able to block action in Congress that the public needs and the country deserves.

I have one idiosyncrasy that helps my driving accuracy. I grip down on the club. This makes it easier to control the clubface.

I think Formula One is - there's a lot of differences from track to track, grip levels, tyre compound, so you always have to press the reset button and work from scratch again.