Similar problems are arising in Egypt too. The question is whether the military will release its grip which has been extremely strong for the past 60 years. So this is happening all over the region and particularly strikingly in Pakistan.
When a country wants television more than they want clean water, they've lost their grip.
The person. . . in the grip of an old distress says things that are not pertinent, does things that don't work, fails to cope with the situation, and endures terrible feelings that have nothing to do with the present.
I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.
The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.
In the 20th century, the French managed to get a death on the myth that they produce the world's best food. The hype has been carefully orchestrated, and despite the fact that the most popular food in the last quarter has undoubtedly been Italian, the French have managed to maintain that mental grip.
As the alcohol overcomes my mind, I hear the glass bottle shatter on the floor. This seems appropriate since I have obviously lost my grip on everything.
Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions.
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.
Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow.
Get a grip, Oreo, and be true to the game.
. . . to keep moving up. . . , you have to abandon the security of that ledge and reach for another hold. Letting go of that sense of security. . is the challenge. . . . think of yourself as climbing a ladder. To move to the next rung, you must give up your grip and reach for the next one.
If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.
Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get a grip on this town. It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down. But you must stop being so pessimistic, Hannah, and learn to trust those around you. So I do. One more time.
You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.
Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably no more powerful force for change in this uncertain and crisis-ridden world than young people and their art. It is the consciousness of the world breaking away from the strangle grip of an archaic social order.
Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do it.
Anecdote: The East End seemed to be in the grip of yet another economic crisis. . . . By the winter of 1933, an army of the unemployed gathered daily outside the dock gates, desperate for a day or 2 paid work. . . . . There was no cushion, no disaster fund, no stashed savings, no government handouts no syrup that could sweeten the bitter pill of poverty.
Get a grip, Dad. I'm not going to do anything you wouldn't do at my age. ' He stands up and says, 'That's it. You're canceling this date.
If you play poorly one day, forget it. If you play poorly the next time out, review your fundamentals of grip, stance, aim and ball position. Most mistakes are made before the club is swung. If you play poorly for a third time in a row, go see your professional.