Fists Quotes
403 quotes by 339 authors
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Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I…
— Margaret Atwood
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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…
— Lester Bangs
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One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.
— David Allan Coe
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The students I've been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes a little easier to love and a lot harder…
— Colman McCarthy
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When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.
— Alex Haley
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One of the people who most influenced me was Ben Shapiro, a marketing professor at the business school. He used to rant and rave and…
— Thomas G. Stemberg
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A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and…
— Pat Summitt
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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…
— Ray Lewis
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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
— Elie Wiesel
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Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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You lay, a small knuckle on my white bed; lay, that fist like a snail, small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals;…
— Anne Sexton
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And clenching your fist for the ones like us Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty.
— Leonard Cohen
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My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it was empty.
— Erma Bombeck
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Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority...…
— Frank I. Cobb
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Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The right…
— Alan Dershowitz
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A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting, band-playing,…
— Norman Mailer
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There are five fundamental qualities that make every team great: communication, trust, collective responsibility, caring and pride. I like to think of each as a…
— Mike Krzyzewski
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Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed.
— L.E. Modesitt Jr.
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The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my…
— Olivia Williams
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