Clutch Quotes - Page 6

• Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky.... hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Hope, Doors, Feelings

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “Hope In The Dark”, p.29, Canongate Books

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• . . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage and are left to clutch only mirage-like images of freedom, its fables and fictions. The new slaves are linked together by vast electronic chains of television that imprison not their bodies but their minds. Their desires are programmed, their tastes manipulated, their values set for them.

  Gerry Spence

  Tyrants, America, People

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• I love being a clutch member of the team, but I hope, in the future, I get a little bit more story on my shoulders and a little bit more responsibility to keep the world of a story up in the air. I really, really welcome that challenge.

  Chris Bauer

  Team, Responsibility, Love Is

  Source: collider.com

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• If you want help in starting to write memoirs, you don't want to fall into the clutches of a famous writer who has been hired to teach at a writing workshop solely because of his name's ability to attract students, rather than because of any teaching skill. You should not have to grapple with someone who secretly thinks you should be writing about his life rather than your own.

  Judith Barrington

  Fall, Teaching, Writing

  Judith Barrington (2002). “Writing the Memoir”

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• I’m not afraid of the real truth. There is nothing you can tell me about yourself that is going to make me clutch my pearls.

  Gabrielle Hamilton

  Real, Pearls, About Yourself

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• We talk of globalization, and how much money is needed for the education of children in the world, their liberation and rehabilitation just $9 billion which is four days of military expense. Just four days. Nine billion dollars is nothing. But what Americans spent on ice cream just 20 percent of this. One fifth of what you spend on ice creams could bring the children out of the clutches of their masters and put them to school.

  Kailash Satyarthi

  Children, Military, School

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• So when the world knocks at your front door,
  clutch the knob and open on up,
  running forward into its widespread greeting arms
  with your hands before you,
  fingertips trembling though they may be.

  Anis Mojgani

  Running, Doors, Hands

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• Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat, the end of something never felt.

  Dorothy Gilman

  Life, Lasts, Defeat

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• There were a lot of races I was going to win at Milwaukee, but I had mechanical problems or something would happen, ... In the early years, it just took a long time for me to win a race. I got in somebody's oil one time and got in the wall, had a clutch go out once. . . so when I finally won one, it was a long time coming.

  Dick Trickle

  Wall, Winning, Race

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• Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fall, Sheep, Helping

  Mahatma Gandhi (1944*). “Gandhi Against Fascism”

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• I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Evanescence, Fingers, Hardest

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.473, Library of America

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• You brake and then turn the wheel, step on the clutch, and pull the e-brake. Release the e-brake, go into countersteer mode, then wait. Wait until you know the car is facing the corner exit direction. then you smile and slam on the gas as you exit the corner.

  Keiichi Tsuchiya

  Car, Waiting, Wheels

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• I am whatever you make me, nothing more. I am your belief in yourself, your dream of what a people may become.... I am the clutch of an idea, and the reasoned purpose of resolution. I am no more than you believe me to be and I am all that you believe I can be. I am whatever you make me, nothing more.

  Franklin Knight Lane

  Dream, Believe, Ideas

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• The Louvre! The Louvre has me in its clutches. Every time I'm there rich blessings rain down upon me. I am coming to understand Titian more and more and learning to love him. And then there is Botticelli's sweet Madonna, with red roses behind her, standing against a blue-green sky. And Fiesole with his poignant little biblical stories, so simply told, often so glorious in their colors.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Sweet, Rain, Biblical

  Paula Modersohn-Becker, Günter Busch, Liselotte von Reinken, Arthur S. Wensinger, Carole Clew Hoey (1998). “Paula Modersohn-Becker, the Letters and Journals”, p.157, Northwestern University Press

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• Women's clutches are too small. I open my purse, and with some hydraulic force, a tampon shoots 12 feet into the air.

  Kelly Ripa

  Air, Feet, Tampons

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• If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.

  Clive Anderson

  Escaping, People, Support

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• Being aware of the bondage is enough to free you from its clutches.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Meditation, Enough, Bondage

  Twitter post from May 26, 2014

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• Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.

  Julian Barnes

  Book, Grind, Promotion

  "The road not taken" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2005.

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• The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is like trying to clutch water in one's hands - the harder one grips, the faster it slips through one's fingers.

  Alan Watts

  Hands, Water, Trying

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• Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.

  Mary E. DeMuth

  Color, Worry, Mind

  Mary E DeMuth (2012). “Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus”, p.46, Thomas Nelson

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• He's the greatest clutch player I've ever seen. The hell with Jerry West!

  Pat Riley

  Player, West, Hell

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• People like definite decisions, / Tidy answers, all the little ravelings / Snipped off, the lint removed, they / Hop happily among their roughs / Calling what they can't clutch insanity / Or saintliness.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  People, Decision, Insanity

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• Hard, withering toil only can achieve a name; and long days and months and years must be passed in the chase of that bubble, reputation, which, when once grasped, breaks in your eager clutch into a hundred lesser bubbles, that soar above you still.

  Donald Grant Mitchell

  Ambition, Years, Names

  Donald Grant Mitchell (1851). “Reveries of a Bachelor: Or A Book of the Heart”, p.127

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• Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.

  Bill James

  Baseball, Running, Defense

  Bill James (1988). “The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract”, Random House Incorporated

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• Hard work and talent are crucial to success, and intangible qualities like heart and clutch are generally real - but luck is just as important. Nobody gets to the top by accident, but nobody’s on top without some pretty phenomenal accidents of fate.

  Andrew Sharp

  Real, Heart, Hard Work

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