Top 532 Grip Quotes & Sayings

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

If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.

What has the [Donald] Trump administration done from their inaugural address, where they talked about decay and carnage? They've done nothing except put Wall Street first, make America sick again, instill fear in our immigrant population in our country, and make sure that Russia maintains its grip, its grip on our foreign policy.

The past has an undeniable grip on everyone, except, perhaps, amnesiacs.

Get a grip, Oreo, and be true to the game.

Grip pressure - not mechanical flaws - is the biggest factor when you're nervous. You unconsciously grip it tighter, which keeps you from making a smooth swing with a natural release. Keep your grip pressure light, and you'll be surprised how much your mechanics stabilize.

Right now, in my mind, this is nothing but grip strength and focus.

We cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear. ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will first cause us to fear and hate, knowing when we are in the grip of a great fear, we will abandon common sense and wisdom, we will forsake the hard-won lessons of time and experience.

Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves.

There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat

Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.

The most common way to crash coming out of a corner is to highside - which is where you accelerate out of the corner, and the rear loses grip, then suddenly finds grip and chucks you off the bike.

To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.

My professional persona never loosens its grip, keeping an eye on me at all times.

Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom to think: 'Blimey, Ricky, get a grip.'

I can't really grip the ball with my left hand.

I drink wine on stage to sort of loosen my grip on reality a little.

I'm always moving around. It's hard for offenses to get a grip on what I'm doing or where I'm at.

When a country wants television more than they want clean water, they've lost their grip.

People can attach themselves to something--an idea, another person, a desire--with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts, a grip stronger than death. Will is a powerful thing. Will--it's supposed to be a good treat, a more determined and persistent version of determination and persistence. But will and obsession--they sit right next to each other. They pretend to be strangers and all the while meet secretly at midnight." -

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

Everything passes, nothing remains. Understand this, loosen your grip and fine serenity.

I think a firm grip helps you control the club and prevents it from turning in your hands. Another thing about feel is, if you make a change in your grip, it takes time for your brain to adapt.

When I do a press roll, I use the traditional grip. Sometimes I flip it around; for a louder crack on the two and four, I use the new grip.

Christmas begins what Easter celebrates. The child in the cradle became the king on the cross. And because he did, there are no marks on my record. Just grace. His offer has no fine print. He didn't tell me, "Clean up before you come in." He offered, "Come in, and I'll clean you up." It's not my grip on him that matters but his grip on me. And his grip is sure. So is his presence in my life.

Nobody taught me my slider. I mean, if you look at my grip, I don't think anyone has the same grip as I do. It's a separate grip. I hold it kind of weird and everything. When I started throwing it, I just wanted to start throwing something different and came up with that. I turned it a little bit.

I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.

I have a pretty good grip on who I am.

I didn't have a grip on that ball. I shouldn't have thrown it.

Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy.

Liberate yourself from my vice-like grip!

Grip the club as if you were holding a baby bird.

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.

Better to flee from death than feel its grip.

When I was younger, I could get that white-knuckle grip of holding on to an idea and not wanting to let it go.

Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us collapse at the first grip of pain. We sit down at the door of God’s purpose and enter a slow death through self-pity. And all the so-called Christian sympathy of others helps us to our deathbed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, as if to say, “Enter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine.” If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?

America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.

A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response.

sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .

Just the ritual of feeling the grip in my fingers and making loose swings is relaxing.

Chicago's been under the grip of the corrupt and broken political machine for as long as everybody's memory.

Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor.

When you drive a car, either you manage it and feel it with the grip of the car, or, like me, you fix it on visual speed. If you do it through the grip, you lose it very quickly - because when the track changes, you can have scares. I do it visually, so if I am going too fast I fight to get the car back, but I do not do it by feeling the grip.

Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow.

It is possible for you to get a grip on the thing that used to have a grip on you. And instead of it controlling you- you are now controlling it.

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

Well, our children do know what this industry is about, but they have a good grip on who they are.

Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip.

You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don't hold onto the old man, the world; don't refuse to regain your youth in Christ, who says to you: 'The world is passing away; the world is losing its grip; the world is short of breath. Don't fear, your youth shall be renewed as an eagle.'

In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a different grip.

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.

I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.

Jack, get a grip of yourself.' I have a grip of myself.' Jack took a grip of himself. It was a most intimate grip; not the kind of grip that you usually take of yourself in public.

I was playing legit snare with a traditional grip, not a matched grip. After I broke my left wrist, I couldn't hit a snare drum anymore. From the age of 13 to 17, I couldn't really get a pop on the snare drum. I would hit it, and my wrist would almost shatter.

Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.

I was slipping, man, and it was definetly time to get a grip.

Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity.