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  • Sweet April-time - O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow Of promise, and red lips with longing paled, And backward-hidden hands that clutch the joys Of vanished springs, like flowers.

    Sweet   Spring   Flower  
    "Poems" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, ("April"), 1859.
  • She was tough in the best sense of the word. She'd taken blows, the disappointments, and had worked her way through them. Some people, he knew, would have buckled under, found a clutch, or given up. But she had carved a place for herself and made it work.

  • 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.

    Life   Lasts   Defeat  
  • 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.

    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
  • Everyone said, ‘Brace yourself, Lupita! Keep a granola bar in that clutch of yours!’ I didn’t really understand what they meant, and it was only once it was past that I realized that my body had been holding on by a thread to get through this very intense experience. Nothing can prepare you for awards season. The red carpet feels like a war zone, except you cannot fly or fight; you just have to stand there and take it.

    War   Fighting   Past  
  • ...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.

  • Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!

    Heart   Familiar   Clutch  
    Margaret Atwood (2014). “The MaddAddam Trilogy Bundle: The Year of the Flood; Oryx & Crake; MaddAddam”, p.742, Anchor
  • Good. Now the first thing you do is press in the clutch and slide the gear into reverse." She placed his hand on the gear shift in the center of her car, and showed him how to move it up and down. "You know, you really shouldn't fondle that in front of me, Grace. It's cruel." "Julian! Do you mind? I'm only trying to show you how to shift my gears." He snorted. "I wish you'd shift my gears like that.

    Moving   Hands   Car  
  • Boys are just boys after all, but sometimes girls really seem to be the turn of a pale wrist, or the sudden jut of a hip, or a clutch of very dark hair falling across a freckled forehead. I'm not saying that's what they really are. I'm just saying sometimes it seems that way, and that those details (a thigh mole, a full face flush, a scar the precise shape and size of a cashew nut) are so many hooks waiting to land you.

    Girl   Fall   Dark  
  • Clutch the bramble and you will be pricked.

    Clutch  
    Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.84, Macmillan
  • Homosexuality is an ugly sin, repugnant to those who find no temptation in it, as well as to many past offenders who are seeking a way out of its clutches. It is embarrassing and unpleasant as a subject for discussion but because of its prevalence, the need to warn the uninitiated, and the desire to help those who may already be involved in it, it is discussed in this chapter.

  • There's no point in comforting words, in telling her she'll be all right. She's no fool. Her hand reaches out and I clutch it like a lifeline. As if it's me who's dying instead of Rue.

    Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.310, Scholastic Inc.
  • 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.

    Goodbye   Hands   Long  
    Juliet Marillier (2010). “Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.47, Macmillan
  • That earns him a smack with my book bag. "Ow." He clutches his arm. "What do you have in there? Books?" A grin snakes across his face. "I like my women feisty." He adds, "I like my broken.

    Book   Snakes   Broken  
  • It's strange how a person can have a distinct distaste for herself, but still she clutches on to life.

    Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.92, A&C Black
  • 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.

    Car   Waiting   Wheels  
  • How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!

    Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.255, Simon and Schuster
  • Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born and die each minute...All the elements of life are in constant flight from us, with darkness and clarity intermingled, the vision and the eclipse; we look and hasten, reaching out our hands to clutch; every happening is a bend in the road...and suddenly we have grown old. We have a sense of shock and gathering darkness; ahead is a black doorway; the life that bore us is a flagging horse, and a veiled stranger is waiting in the shadows to unharness us.

    Horse   Journey   Hands  
  • All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.

  • There was this book I read and loved, The story of a ship Who sailed around the world and found That nothing else exists Beyond its own two sails And wooden shell And what is held within. All else is sure to pass. We clutch and grasp And debate what's truly permanent.

    Book   Two   Stories  
  • When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.

    Men   Hands   Generosity  
  • It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the world and become part of human gain. The world by all means should have shared it, could Mr Bankes have said why that woman pleased him so; why the sight of her reading a fairy tale to her boy had upon him precisely the same effect as the solution of a scientific problem.

    Reading   Mean   Boys  
    Virginia Woolf (2013). “Ao farol: To the lighthouse: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.208, Editora Landmark LTDA
  • 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.

    Hands   Water   Trying  
  • 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.

  • Well, there it is. That's Jeeves. Where others merely smite the brow and clutch the hair, he acts. Napoleon was the same.

    Hair   Jeeves   Wells  
    P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “Joy in the Morning: (Jeeves & Wooster)”, p.181, Random House
  • He's the greatest clutch player I've ever seen. The hell with Jerry West!

    Player   West   Hell  
  • The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

    Elias Canetti (1962). “Crowds and power: Masse und Macht]”
  • Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

    Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing
  • One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car.

    Hate   Race   Car  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?

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