Fist Quotes

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. (Indira Gandhi)
You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread. View quote
Heinz Guderian
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. View quote
Bette Davis
The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. View quote
Thomas Friedman
Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand; he goes one further and clinches his fist. View quote
Kenneth Tynan
I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table. View quote
Thom Mayne
I feel an army in my fist. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and four times he who gets his fist in fust. View quote
Josh Billings
I like autumn. The drama of it; the golden lion roaring through the back door of the year, shaking its mane of leaves. A dangerous time; of violent rages and deceptive calm, of fireworks in the pockets and conkers in the fist. View quote
Joanne Harris
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. View quote
Mike Krzyzewski
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)
Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm's Human Resources department. View quote
Alain de Botton
They wanted this iron fist to command them. View quote
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself. View quote
Max Lucado
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, voice-screaming medieval get-together of greed, practical lust, compromised idealism, career-advancement, meeting, feud, vendetta, conciliation, of rabble-rousers, fist fights (as it used to be), embraces, drunks (again as it used to be) and collective rivers of animal sweat. View quote
Norman Mailer
Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand. View quote
Alex Haley
The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. View quote
Thomas Friedman
Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice: whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born. View quote
William Shenstone
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine. (Vladimir Nabokov)
Okemah was one of the singiest, square dancingest, drinkingest, yellingest, preachingest, walkingest, talkingest, laughingest, cryingest, shootingest, fist fightingest, bleedingest, gamblingest, gun, club and razor carryingest of our ranch towns and farm towns, because it blossomed out into one of our first Oil Boom Towns. View quote
Woody Guthrie
In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none. View quote
Victor Hugo
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... it is the one guarantee of human freedom to the American people. View quote
Frank I. Cobb
About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie. View quote
Klaus Kinski
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