Clenched Quotes
78 Clenched quotes by 66 unique authors
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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
— Indira Gandhi
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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
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We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
— Djuna Barnes
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We hold each other's lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.
— Lloyd Alexander
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The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble assistance.
— Mike Huckabee
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.
— Alice Duer Miller
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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…
— Unknown Author
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We cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.
— Adolfo Perez Esquivel
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Sin is a clenched fist and a blow in the face of God.
— Joseph Parker
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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
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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
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There is more power in the open hand than in the clenched fist.
— Herbert Newton Casson
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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
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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
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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
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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
— George Jean Nathan
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The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a…
— Henri Nouwen
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Are there many people without illness or disability who sit at home in the evening with clenched fists, continually changing the channel of a television…
— Alasdair Gray
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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is…
— Susan Sontag
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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…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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