Throes Quotations

I rise at 6. Strong coffee helps me face the paper edition of 'The New York Times.' It daily challenges my own capacity for faking anything deranged enough to sound true. I work till 2 P.M. unless I am in the throes of finishing something. I rewrite to be reread.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

We are potentially in the final throes of this round of talks at the World Trade Organization, which was meant to help poor countries but has gone way off track. What is needed from Europe now is not self-interest and intransigence but genuine concessions that will put trade at the service of development.

We're in the throes of a protracted bull market.

Our job is to essentially make all of Times Square into a giant theater stage and television set. We are currently in the throes of the final rituals of preparation surrounding the yearly ritual of New Year's Eve.

When you're in the throes of writing, I find, the lessons you've casually imparted to others are not in the forefront of your mind. Which may be good or bad. Probably both.

Usually you cannot laugh if you are in a bad mood or in the throes of a problem that seems like the most serious problem in the world.

When Richard Nixon came to Beijing in the winter of 1972, China was still in the throes of the Cultural Revolution, so it had a limited array of entertainment to provide.

We've not had a great deal of response right now, mainly because they're still in the throes of it. They haven't had time to stop. I think it's going to come back later when they have a chance to step back.

The results of this QSBO survey suggest the economy is presently in the throes of a potential acute slowdown.

Strange and predatory and truly dangerous, car thieves and muggers -- they seem to jeopardize all our cherished concepts, even our self-esteem, our property rights, our powers of love, our laws and pleasures. The only relationship we seem to have with them is scorn or bewilderment, but they belong somewhere on the dark prairies of a country that is in the throes of self-discovery.

This is a rare opportunity to watch a comet in its death throes ? from very close range.

There wasn't enough in my judgment to alleviate the fears that we are in the throes of a lack of confidence in the market.

It's an interim measure, not the ultimate solution. You are in the throes of making some historic decisions. This will help take down the heat. It would just make life a lot easier here.

It's an accumulation of things. In Iraq, it's the reality versus the perception and the whole debate of whether we're in the last throes of the insurgency or in for a dozen more years. The momentum has been building toward the media regaining its sea legs.

I love the sound of a woman in the throes of rapture - but not screamers.

If there is one thing that no responsible Zimbabwean can deny today, it is that our country is in the throes of a devastating economic meltdown.