Fists famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.
-- A. E. Housman -
We cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.
-- Adolfo Perez Esquivel -
I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
-- Aimee Bender -
When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.
-- Alex Haley -
I don't know if I would go so far to say that I would punch someone in the face, but I would definitely stand up for my lady. But sometimes it's more attractive to use your words than your fists.
-- Alex Pettyfer -
Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.
-- Alice Duer Miller -
Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.
-- Alistair Begg -
Despite popular belief, hitting someone with a closed fist actually hurts the hitter almost as much as the hittee.
-- Ally Carter -
Everyone’s chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes.
-- Andrea Gibson -
I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.
-- Andy Roddick -
I've learned... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.
-- Andy Rooney -
She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.
-- Anthony Marra -
Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.
-- Ariel Gore -
When Glenda Jackson reveals that she has never been in a relationship with a man in which he hasn't raised his fists to her, I don't know whether this tells us more about the contemporary male or about Glenda Jackson.
-- Auberon Waugh -
To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.
-- Barack Obama -
Say That! is an iron fist upside the mushy head of smooth jazz, and Grant Geissman's defiant declaration of independence.
-- Bill Milkowski -
One has to build a fist against anti-Semitism-a first class orchestra will be this fist.
-- Bronislaw Huberman -
Those who never rebelled against God or at some point in their lives shaken their fists in the face of heaven, have never encountered God at all.
-- Catherine Marshall -
Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.
-- Christine Quinn -
I'm not a girl anymore, I'm a woman and my heart beats like prizefighter's fists, and I have not stopped yet, I will not stop.
-- Daphne Gottlieb -
One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.
-- David Allan Coe -
She just kept hitting me in the head with her fists, over, and over and over.
-- David Gest -
Usually in fist fights you get punched in the face.
-- David James Elliott -
I have always done my own stunts, and I have been in hundreds of fights in films, but I have never been in a fist fight outside the movies.
-- Dennis Quaid -
Writing is a weapon and it’s more powerful than a fist could ever be.
-- Denzel Washington -
Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?
-- Don Williams -
A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder.
-- Doris Grumbach -
Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.
-- Ellen Kushner -
We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.
-- Ethel Percy Andrus -
Memory shrinks until it fits in a fist memory shrinks without forgetting
-- Fady Joudah -
When we get out of this, I'm gonna shove my fist right into your ass, hard and fast Not in the sexual way! In the 'I am pissed off' sort of way.
-- Frank Reynolds -
The next election will be a flyweight versus a heavyweight. However much the right hon. Gentleman (David Cameron) may dance around the ring beforehand, at some point, he will come within the reach of a big clunking fist.
-- Gordon Brown -
Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.
-- Gregory David Roberts -
...I remain restless and dissatisfied; what I knot with my right hand, I undo with my left, what my left hand creates, my right fist shatters
-- Gunter Grass -
Why not stand up, pump your fists in the air, and scream like a maniac? -
-- Hayley Williams -
You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread.
-- Heinz Guderian -
There is more power in the open hand than in the clenched fist.
-- Herbert Newton Casson -
Al: So what's your strategy? Ed: I told you, a fist in his face!
-- Hiromu Arakawa -
Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey -
Rules with an iron fist, but sometimes in that fist is a rose.
-- Ike Barinholtz -
The only time Republicans will shake fists and point fingers is over a war delayed, one that isn't led by the US, or a war waged without the necessary conviction (read collateral damage).
-- Ilana Mercer -
Andrea stared at me. "You're not taking me seriously!" "That's probably because you're not excited enough," Derek said. "You should clench your fists like they do in the movies, shake them, and yell, 'This is bigger than any of us! It goes all the way to the top!
-- Ilona Andrews -
I now realize that just because you can take a punch does not mean you must stand in front of a fist, particularly not when the fist is your own.
-- Iyanla Vanzant -
Love, after all, was universal. Qhuinn closed his fist up tight, and knew he would never, ever take that ring off. “Always,†Blay murmured. “Because family is an always kind of thing.
-- J.R. Ward -
The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.
-- James Cash Penney -
An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.
-- James Dyson -
When I see Almunia's performances, I get angry and have to make a fist in my pocket
-- Jens Lehmann -
One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a fist.
-- Jhumpa Lahiri -
Sin is a clenched fist and a blow in the face of God.
-- Joseph Parker -
I can put my whole fist in my mouth! Wanna see?
-- Karen Smith -
The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.
-- Karen White -
Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist.
-- Kenneth Tynan -
This country will not be a peaceful place for us to live if we do not make it to be a peaceful place with our fists.
-- Khem Veasna -
I can't seem to keep my heart from leaking out of the cracks, like sand clutched in a fist.
-- Kiersten White -
Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed.
-- L.E. Modesitt Jr. -
It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.
-- Lester Bangs -
We hold each other's lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.
-- Lloyd Alexander -
Has he ever trapped you in a room and not let you out? Has he ever raised a fist as if he were going to hit you? Has he ever thrown an object that hit you or nearly did? Has he ever held you down or grabbed you to restrain you? Has he ever threatened to hurt you? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then we can stop wondering whether he'll ever be violent; he already has been.
-- Lundy Bancroft -
I resist the urge to pump my fist. I'm not sure why, but I feel like I've just won some sort of competition worthy of headlines.
-- M. Leighton -
If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.
-- Malcolm Muggeridge -
Socialists cry “Power to the peopleâ€, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over people, power to the State.
-- Margaret Thatcher -
I balled my hands into tight fists to keep them from wrapping around Mr. I-Know-Everything's superior neck.
-- Maria V. Snyder -
In a world that lives like a fist mercy is not more than waking with your hands open.
-- Mark Nepo -
Just be patient, she told herself, and with the mounting pages, the strength of her writing fist grew.
-- Markus Zusak -
When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)
-- Markus Zusak -
When death captures me,' the boy vowed, 'he will feel my fist on his face.' Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry. Yes. I like that a lot.
-- Markus Zusak -
My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.
-- Mary-Louise Parker -
Compassion gives us a common ground to stand on regardless of your faith background. It gives us a chance to stand shoulder-to-shoulder rather than go fist-to-fist with somebody.
-- Max Lucado -
The Jews will become socialist colonisers with strong fists and sharp teeth, a strong national group within the Soviet family of nations.
-- Mikhail Kalinin -
Those who would rule with an iron fist always fear the free expression of opinions by those they would suppress.
-- Neal Boortz -
If you walk through life in a fighting pose with your fists balled up and ready to strike, someone, someday, somewhere, is going to want to test your mettle.
-- Neal Boortz -
The worm hissed. "You said it couldn't see!" shouted Oates, forgetting Umber's instruction to be silent. He shook a fist. "We all heard it, Umber! You specifically said, it couldn't see!" "I know-isn't it wonderful to learn something new?" Umber laughed.
-- P.W. Catanese -
If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.
-- Patrick Ness -
If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.
-- Plautus -
The pain of hope dying is worse than his fists and boots.
-- R.L. LaFevers -
A person comes into the world with a fist-and a grasp. Yes, we are built to fight one another, but also to embrace. How cleverly we are created.
-- Rachel Simon -
He's lying, Kay," Nash said, fists clenched at his sides. "Hellions can't lie, but we all know reapers can." "Careful, pot," Tod said. "Someone might notice your resemblance to the kettle.
-- Rachel Vincent -
Giving jump starts our relationship with God. It opens our fists so we can receive what God has for us.
-- Randy Alcorn -
You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a fist), it's damn near impossible to turn this around.
-- Ray Lewis -
America is not big enough to shake her fist in the face of a holy God and get away with it, and as I read this I want to explain something. I'm going to read this and then I want to explain something. As America has permitted homosexuality to establish itself as an alternate lifestyle, it is also reeling from the frightening spread of sexually transmitted disease. Sin begets its own consequence, both on individuals and nations.
-- Reggie White -
If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.
-- Ricardo Montalban -
Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise.
-- Rob Bell -
I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.
-- Robbie Williams -
There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
-- Roberto Bolano -
Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
-- Robin Hobb -
-He's his rival in love!*inuyasha hits shippo*why'd you do that!? shippo,if you bug inuyasha you'll only feel his fist.-Miroku+shippo
-- Rumiko Takahashi -
I've definitely had my fair share at shaking my fists at the gods of Hollywood, but I'm learning that I cannot think that way or I will go crazy.
-- Sarah Drew -
As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
-- Sitting Bull -
He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts
-- Stephen King -
You always fashioned yourself as the Empire’s harshest Fist, didn’t you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty’s a virtue…
-- Steven Erikson -
Ah, Fist, it’s the curse of history that those who should read them, never do.
-- Steven Erikson -
Shake your fist all you want but dead is dead
-- Steven Erikson -
My fist so rocky and and wrist so icy, Might be, thrown off my rocker just slightly, Feisty, claimin' hot temper don't ignite me, I'm only gonna ask ya find the exit once politely
-- T.I.
