Grab

Famous quotes containing the word grab:

    “The consequences of our actions grab us by the scruff of our necks, quite indifferent to our claim that we have “gotten better” in the meantime.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “Crushed to earth and rising again is an author’s gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen, he will contemplate a fact he should never permit himself to face: that in all probability books have been written, are being written, will be written, better than anything he has done, is doing, or will do.”
    —Fannie Hurst (1889–1968)

    “Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?”
    —Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972)