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Tag Name "Clutch" (72)

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...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.
Stanislaw Lem
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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
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Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the monsoon.
Patricia McCormick
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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
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The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just that time when God can't give it: you are like the drowning man who can't be helped because he clutches and grabs. Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear.
C. S. Lewis
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In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.
William Ernest Henley
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When a man tells me he's run out of steam in the sex department, I'll tell him, 'Count your blessings you've escaped from the clutches of a cruel tyrant. Enjoy!
Richard J. Needham
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Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.
Corrie Ten Boom
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Tennis is more than just shots. It's about being clutch and beating the people on the other side of the net.
Jim Courier
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When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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President Bush cruelly manipulated the grief of the American people - and the sympathy of the rest of the world - to introduce a 'world order' dreamed up by a clutch of fantasists advising the Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld.
Robert Fisk
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Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!
Margaret Atwood
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I'm glad I escaped the clutches of those evil gnomes... I'm talking, of course, about Puerto Ricans.
Thom Yorke
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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
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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
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
Thomas More
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This is a long goodbye, yet not time enough. I have no aptitude for this. I cannot learn this. I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.
Juliet Marillier
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The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.
Benjamin Franklin
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The best way to know how Virender Sehwag's mind works is to sit next to him in the players' balcony when India are batting. Every few minutes he will clutch his head and yell, 'Chauka gaya' or 'Chhakka gaya'.
Sourav Ganguly
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Are you a thinker, a doer, or a clutch player? The better you are, the greater potential for influence you will have with your people.
John C. Maxwell
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Ive always loved when girls carry their wallets as a clutch instead of a bag.
Alexander Wang
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If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.
Michel de Montaigne
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Worry was my mother's mechanic, her mechanism for engaging with the machinery of living. Worry was an anchor for her, a hook, something to clutch on to in the world. Worry was a box to live inside of, worry a mechanism for evading the present, for re-creating the past, for dealing with the future.
Charles Yu
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