if God cuts off your fingers, He will teach you how to eat…

And what? Accidentally cuts off three fingers postmortem? 'Oops, oh, no, my girlfriend just died! Clumsy me, in trying to perform CPR, I chopped…

— Barry Lyga

Even if one glimpses God, there are cuts and splinters and burns along the way.

— Mark Nepo

“God cuts out our path, makes a groove in the clay with His finger, and we poor blind ants slide down into it.”

— Maria McCann

You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread.

— Heinz Guderian

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are…

— Anais Nin

[Sport officials] blocked their support of us. But those individuals [ Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem Abdul Jabbar ] were…

— John Carlos

Shhh.” He put a finger to her lips. “Hear me out. I cannot deny that I would've liked to have made babies with you.…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.

— William Ralph Inge

I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This…

— Katrina Kenison

Sam reached his hand toward mine and I automatically put my fingers in his. With a guilty little smile he pulled my hand toward…

— Maggie Stiefvater

The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions-…

— Pam Brown

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the…

— Ida B. Wells

Yes yes you can count on me - Fingers

— Nikhil Saluja

Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

— Fergus Henderson

A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the…

— Samuel R. Delany