Clenched Quotes

78 quotes by 66 authors

People with clenched fists can not shake hands. — Indira Gandhi
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely put on the… — Stephen King
We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality. — Djuna Barnes
We hold each other's lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists. — Lloyd Alexander
The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble assistance. — Mike Huckabee
Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold… — Mahatma Gandhi
When you are in a state of nonacceptance, it's difficult to learn. A clenched fist cannot receive a gift, and a clenched psyche grasped tightly… — Roger Delano Hinkins
The link between intimate violence in the home and the international violence of terrorism and war is as tightly bound together as the fingers of… — Riane Eisler
And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they… — Abraham Lincoln
Socialists cry â€œPower to the peopleâ€, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over… — Margaret Thatcher
Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist. — Alice Duer Miller
We shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There will be electrifying overtures and unheard of concessions. The capitalist countries, stupid… — Dmitry Manuilsky
We cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands. — Adolfo Perez Esquivel
Sin is a clenched fist and a blow in the face of God. — Joseph Parker
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become… — Eduardo Galeano
The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the… — George Steiner
There is more power in the open hand than in the clenched fist. — Herbert Newton Casson
It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die. — Alfred the Great
Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes… — Ishmael
India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. — Indira Gandhi

Who Wrote These Clenched Quotes

66 authors contributed a total of 78 Clenched Quotes, led by these top contributors: