Famous quotes containing the words hand, grip and/or rule:
“Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“You are the brave who do not break
In the grip of the mob when the blow comes straight
To the shattered bone;”
—Raymond R. Patterson (b. 1929)
“Man who man would be,
Must rule the empire of himself; in it
Must be supreme, establishing his throne
On vanquished will, quelling the anarchy
Of hopes and fears, being himself alone.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)