Clutch Quotes - Page 5

• Money is like the tide: It rolls in and it rolls out. If you clutch it, you are not going to keep it.

  Dolly Parton

  Tides, Ifs

  "Q&A: Dolly Parton learned early that giving leads to getting". Interview with Chris Taylor, in.reuters.com. November 29, 2016.

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• ...I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me when I would have passed on. And again the symbolism of it all came over me. These memories and visions of the poor--they were the clutch of the thorns. Social workers have all felt it. It holds them to their work, because the thorns curve backward, and one cannot pull away.

  Albion Fellows Bacon

  Memories, Compassion, Curves

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• On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch -- engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Time, Jobs, Military

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• Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of thehighest grade, and libraries, and countless circles in our towns and villages of scholarly, leisurely folk, who loved books, and music, and Nature, and lived much apart with them. The mad craze for money, which clutches at our souls to-day as la grippe does at our bodies, was hardly known then.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Country, Teacher, Money

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• Whether it's a bright shoe or a clutch or a lipstick, I've had a lot of fun using color contacts as an accessory.

  Nina Dobrev

  Fun, Color, Shoes

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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

  Thinking, Thoughtful, Essence

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• When a woman wants to look festive, she should add some shine, sheen or sparkle to her outfit, like a metallic clutch, an embellished shoe, or a blingy statement necklace.

  Clinton Kelly

  Shoes, Shining, Add

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• I've always loved the rush you get from watching a really scary movie, but I never watch them alone. It's fun to turn out the lights and scream and clutch someone's hand and spill the popcorn all over the place and hide under each other.

  Sunny Mabrey

  Fun, Light, Hands

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• Willpower is not some mythical force that we either have or don't have. Willpower is our decision to use higher mind thinking instead of lazing around in the clutches of our primal mind.

  A. Curtiss

  Thinking, Decision, Mind

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• For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from the clutches of a mechanistic civilization. To us the enjoyment of solitude, complete independence, and the beauty of undefiled panoramas is absolutely essential to happiness.

  Bob Marshall

  Passion, Journey, Civilization

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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

  Believe, Tree, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.47, North Atlantic Books

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• A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

  Thomas More

  Hope, Men, Drowning

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• I'm not going to get a hit every time in clutch situations, but over the course of the season I'll get a lot of clutch hits. I'm disappointed it's come to a time when they (Orioles fans) boo me. And then to turn around and have the nerve to cheer for you, that's the way baseball goes.

  Albert Belle

  Baseball, Cheer, Fans

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• I would like to be myself in life - my real self. My ego, though, is powerful and not necessarily working in my best interest all the time. Even when climbing I can't escape the clutches of my ego. The reason why I started climbing was because I could be free from myself.

  Chris Sharma

  Powerful, Real, Climbing

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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

  Grief, Order, People

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• Does the sailor then live in exultation of having conquered the waves, or is he humbled by the magnanimity of the ocean? Does the climber believe that he conquered the mountain, or does he dissolve inwardly and face again and again all the times when the mountain was kind to him who was not even a little rag doll in the clutches of a giant? The craving is to merge, to become One with the mountain, the sea, the forest and the universe.

  Zeina

  Believe, Ocean, Sea

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• In a world of war, pain and suffering, all I want for Christmas is an underwater watch and a silver clutch rod for my dirt bike.

  Dana Gould

  Pain, War, Suffering

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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

  Player, People, Doers

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”, p.27, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.

  Nate Silver

  Heart, People, Desire

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• Tea at college was served on long tables with an urn at the end of each. Long baguettes of bread, three to a table, were set out with meagre portions of butter and jam; the china was coarse to withstand the schoolboy-clutch and the tea strong. At the Hôtel de Paris I was astonished at the fragility of the cups, the silver teapot, the little triangular savoury sandwiches, the éclairs stuffed with cream.

  Graham Greene

  Strong, Food, College

  Graham Greene (1966). “The Comedians”

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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

  People, Tennis, Sides

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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• Many times, the game comes down to the final possession, the final shot. I want to become a better clutch performer. That's what separates the really good players from the really great players.

  Tracy McGrady

  Player, Games, Finals

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• I've done a lot of special things in this game, and for none of that to be considered clutch, it's an injustice.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Games, Special, Done

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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

  Player, Mind, Way

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• Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would sooner release its prey. A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

  Isabel Paterson

  Educational, Octopus, Political

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.258, Transaction Publishers

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