Fists Quotes

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  My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

  Bette Davis

  Work, Passion, Hands

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.

  James Cash Penney

  Independent, Organization, Separation

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• As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.

  Sitting Bull

  Broken, Together, Individual

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• A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Team, Hands

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Courage and conviction are powerful weapons.

  David Seabury

  Powerful, Weapons, Conviction

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• You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

  Indira Gandhi

  Life, Friendship, Leadership

  "Indian and Pakistani Armies Confront Each Other Along Borders". The New York Times, October 20, 1971.

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• We hold each other's lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Hands

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Black Cauldron: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.20, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.

  Robbie Williams

  Hands, Raised

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• I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

  Bertrand Russell

  Sex, Honesty, Believe

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• hold your head high and keep those fists down - Atticus Finch

  Harper Lee

  Powerful, Jem And Scout, Mockingbird

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• I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.

  Ian Dury

  Moon, Hands, Havens

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• Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.

  Klaus Kinski

  Broken Heart, Running, Hurt

  "Klaus Kinski & The Thing" by Marcelle Clements. Playboy, Vol. 32, Iss. 11, November 1985.

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• There is more power in the open hand than in the clenched fist.

  Herbert Newton Casson

  Power, Hands

  "The International Chemical Worker", Vol. 13-15, p. 192, 1953.

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• He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.

  Stephen King

  Ghost, Twister, Stammering

  "It". www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change...

  Harper Lee

  Powerful, Trying, Ems

  "To Kill A Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, July 11, 1960.

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• I think most people, when they think about the Black Panther Party, they think in very abstract, caricatured terms. They think about black fists in the air, but they don't think about the actual people, and the families, and the relationships.

  Kerry Washington

  Party, Thinking, Air

  "Kerry Washington" by Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 09, 2010.

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• If we paint the phases of a riot, the crowd bustling with uplifted fists and the noisy onslaughts of cavalry are translated upon the canvas in sheaves of lines corresponding with all the conflicting forces, following the general laws of violence of the picture... These force-lines must encircle and involve the spectator so that he will in a manner be forced to struggle himself with the persons in the picture.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Struggle, Law, Phases

  "Les exposants au public". Booklet, p. 8, February 1912.

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• I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.

  Charlie Sheen

  Fire, Breathing, Done

  "CHARLIE SHEEN RAGES in Open Letter". www.tmz.com. February 25, 2011.

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• You have to fight the green monster with your mind, not your fists.

  Matthew Broderick

  Fighting, Hands, Mind

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• 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

  Leadership, World, Tables

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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 manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.

  Lester Bangs

  Air, Hands, Buttons

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

  George Jean Nathan

  Life, Wisdom, Crazy

  George Jean Nathan (1972). “The World in Falseface”, p.21, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it. Between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past. Between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.

  William J. Clinton

  Peace, Real, Past

  Clinton, William J (1998). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1997”, p.1816, Best Books on

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• I haven't had this much fun since the rats ate my baby sister

  Robert Bloch

  Baby, Fun, Rats

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• I don't shoot guns. I don't know how to do that. I grew Upstate New York, so I fought with my fists.

  Jimmy Fallon

  New York, Gun, Hands

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