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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• Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed.

  Rumi

  Hands, Balance, Would Be

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Your Grief....”

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• One thing I have learned is, if people tell you they had a "frank" discussion with someone, it is usually code for a yelling match with clenched fists.

  Larry King

  Inspirational, Yelling, People

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• Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed.

  L.E. Modesitt Jr.

  Optimistic, Mind, Strikes

  L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (2010). “The Parafaith War”, p.168, Macmillan

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• Despite popular belief, hitting someone with a closed fist actually hurts the hitter almost as much as the hittee.

  Ally Carter

  Hurt, Hitting, Belief

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• When you fight, if it is a real fight, use every tool that you have, use your whole body. Use your fists, your legs, your fingers, your head if you have to, and hit them in every vulnerable spot, the balls, the eyes etc. to win.

  Bruce Lee

  Real, Eye, Fighting

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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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• As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.

  Tim Conway

  Sports, Kids, Thinking

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• 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.

  Klaus Kinski

  Wall, Doors, Hands

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• Why not stand up, pump your fists in the air, and scream like a maniac? -

  Hayley Williams

  Air, Why Not, Pumps

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• You can't shake hands with a closed fist.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Anger, Hands

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• The Jews will become socialist colonisers with strong fists and sharp teeth, a strong national group within the Soviet family of nations.

  Mikhail Kalinin

  Strong, Groups, Teeth

  "Inside the Middle East" by Dilip Hiro, (p. 232), 1982.

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• The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.

  Thomas Friedman

  Hands

  Thomas L. Friedman (2000). “The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization”, p.443, Macmillan

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• Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Hands, Performing, Palms

  Kenneth Tynan (1961). “Curtains: Selections from the Drama Criticism and Related Writings”

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• I believe in using words, not fists.

  Susan Sarandon

  Believe, Using Words, Boxes

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• The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.

  Jon Voight

  Running, Bullying, Truth

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• One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.

  David Allan Coe

  Hands, Certain, Shakes

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• 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.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Business, Hands, Tyrants

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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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• In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.

  David Hackworth

  Men, Order, Rifles

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• She just kept hitting me in the head with her fists, over, and over and over.

  David Gest

  Hands, Hitting

  "Love on the rocks". "Dateline NBC" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. February 6, 2014.

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