#grip

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#grip #i #myself #paint #protect

As the Dark Lord becomes ever more powerful, your race is set still more firmly above mine! Gringotts falls under Wizarding rule, house-elves are slaughtered, and who amongst the wand-carriers protests?” “We do!” said Hermione. She had sat up straight, her eyes bright. “We protest! And I’m hunted quite as much as any goblin or elf, Griphook! I’m a Mudblood!” “Don’t call yourself —” Ron muttered. “Why shouldn’t I?” said Hermione. “Mudblood, and proud of it! I’ve got no higher position under this new order than you have, Griphook! It was me they chose to torture, back at the Malfoys’! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#hermione-granger #mudblood #death

Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool. ↗

— Sophocles

#comes #fool #gets #grips #like

As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation. ↗

— James Levine

#bringing #crises #generation #gripped #kinds

In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake. ↗

— Barbara Steele

#became #bottom #burned #casual #caught

Reaper of enemies; strong of grip; One kind with his fathers. ↗

— Taliesin

#grip #his #kind #reaper #strong

We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#community #grips #harsh #harsh reality #know

A childish mind griped to unexpected changes. ↗

— Toba Beta

#gripe #unexpected-changes #change

The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#care #cares #consciousness #european #got

You learn at a certain point that you have to focus on the business side of music. After getting ripped off a couple of times, you figure out that you need to get a grip on it. ↗

— Neal Schon

#business #certain #certain point #couple #figure