#grip

It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#corporate #fascinating #grips #growing #hear

The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the "I," under another form, continues the task of existence. ↗

— Gerard De Nerval

#becomes #continues #death #determine #exact

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace. ↗

— Kwame Nkrumah

#factor #grip #makes #master #own

I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on. ↗

— Haley Joel Osment

#figure #frightened #get #grip #hard

One thing I can't do, and I hope that there are other people out there that feel the same way, is climb a rope. Oh my gosh, it's so hard to climb rope! It's all about grip and arms. ↗

— Katy Perry

#arms #climb #feel #gosh #grip

There is no doubt that someone who tries to throw a curve or pitch at any early age before he's developed, before his hand is big enough to grip the ball correctly, will damage his arm. ↗

— Robin Roberts

#any #arm #ball #before #big

One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America. ↗

— Ayatollah Khomeini

#black #congratulate #everyone #explosion #great

I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#after #always #baseball #designed #family

I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#grips #hits #i #idea #ideas

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#concepts #conflicting #cooperation #encounter #grips