Fists Quotes - Page 14

• When death captures me,' the boy vowed, 'he will feel my fist on his face.' Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry. Yes. I like that a lot.

  Markus Zusak

  Stupid, Boys, Faces

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.138, Random House

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• Come on, is your heart a sponge or a fist?

  Tea Obreht

  Heart, Sponges

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• Why'd you want to sing about sad things?" Candy had asked him. "Because any fool can be happy," he'd said to her. "It takes a man with real heart" —he'd made a fist and laid it against his chest— "to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

  Clive Barker

  Real, Heart, Men

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• Al: So what's your strategy? Ed: I told you, a fist in his face!

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Als, Faces, Strategy

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• Edward stretched out his arm, his hand curled into a fist. Seth grinned, revealing the long row of dagger teeth, and bumped his nose against Edward's hand. "Nice teamwork," Edward murmured.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Teamwork, Nice, Hands

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• I hammered him with my fists. He just stood and took it. He didn't suffer graciously, he looked pissed off to no end. But he let me hit him. And he didn't hit me back.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Suffering, Pissed Off, Ends

  Karen Marie Moning (2006). “Darkfever: Fever Series”, p.65, Delacorte Press

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• Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds. Ben, getting you a date to prom is so hard that the American government believes the problem cannot be solved with diplomacy, but will instead require force.

  John Green

  Believe, Cutting, Ideas

  "Paper Towns". Book by John Green, 2008.

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• Guess what it is that turns plants to coal. Pressure. Guess what it is that turns limestone to marble. Pressure. Guess what it is that turns Briony's heart to stone. Pressure. Pressure is uncomfortable, but so are the gallows. Keep your secrets, wolfgirl. Dance your fists with Eldric's, snatch lightning from the gods. Howl at the moon, at the blood-red moon. Let your mouth be a cavern of stars.

  Franny Billingsley

  Stars, Heart, Moon

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.134, A&C Black

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• Her little fists pummeled at him, and he accepted the abuse. Until he realized she’d made an improper fist and was actually hurting herself. He wound an arm around her waist, spun her and slammed her into the hard line of his body to still her. “Let me go!” “In a minute.” As she struggled, he pulled her thumb out from beneath her fingers and rearranged her fist. “Hit like this.” Done, he released her.

  Gena Showalter

  Hurt, Abuse, Done

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Seduction”, p.348, HQN Books

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• Yes!’ Beck crowed, pumping his fist into the air. ‘That rocks!’ Then he charged off in search of another Three to decapitate. Riley sighed to herself. ‘I’ve created a monster.

  Jana Oliver

  Rocks, Air, Monsters

  Jana Oliver (2012). “Forgiven”, p.249, Macmillan

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• Every man has a weakness," he patiently explained. "I'll find theirs, I promise you." "Every man?" "Yes," he answered emphatically. His hand moved to the back of her neck. Twisting her curls around his fist, he jerked her head back. His face loomed over hers, his breath warm and sweet as he stared down into her eyes. "What is your weakness, Brodick?" she asked. "You.

  Julie Garwood

  Sweet, Eye, Men

  Julie Garwood (2010). “Ransom”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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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 brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.

  Olivia Williams

  Daughter, Mother, Breathing

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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 separate finger on the fist. Any one individually is important. But all of them together are unbeatable

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Volleyball, Team, Communication

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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, 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.

  Norman Mailer

  Horse, Fear, Fighting

  Norman Mailer (1968). “The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations”

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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 to swing your fist should end at the tip of my nose, but your right to express your ideas should not necessarily end at the lobes of my ears.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Swings, Ideas, Liberty

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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

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Erma Bombeck, Bil Keane (2011). “Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!”, p.119, Fawcett

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• And clenching your fist for the ones like us Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty.

  Leonard Cohen

  Sexuality, Figures, Oppressed

  Song: Chelsea Hotel No. 2, Album: New Skin For The Old Ceremony

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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; you are fed with love. At first, hunger is not wrong.

  Anne Sexton

  Strong, Animal, White

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• Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Children, Brain, Age

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.276

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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 he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.

  Pat Summitt

  Sports, Team, Goal

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.154, Crown Business

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• The heart is a hollow muscle, and it will beat billions of times during our lives. About the size of a fist, it has four chambers: two Atria and two ventricles. How this muscle can house something as encompassing as love is beyond me. Is this heart the one that loves? or do you love with your soul, which is infinite?I don't know. All I know is that I feel this love in every molecule in my body, every breath I take, all the infinity in my soul.

  Katy Evans

  Heart, Love Is, Two

  Katy Evans (2013). “Mine”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Andrea stared at me. "You're not taking me seriously!" "That's probably because you're not excited enough," Derek said. "You should clench your fists like they do in the movies, shake them, and yell, 'This is bigger than any of us! It goes all the way to the top!

  Ilona Andrews

  Way, Excited, Enough

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.132, Penguin

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• And when he did that, my hands curled into fists because I thought about touching his face like maybe I could catch joy in my hands and hold it.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Hands, Joy, Touching

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1582, Dell

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• That’s it,” she said, balling her hands in fists. “I’m not letting you out of it this time. I insist that you take me to Scotland. I demand you ruin me. As a point of honor.

  Tessa Dare

  Hands, Scotland, Honor

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• My breathing was shallow and my hands were fists. 'Oh, yes, I'm going to have to kill you Barrons.' I said coolly, Partly because, for the most miniscule sliver of an instant, while looking at those handcuffs, I'd imagined myself climbing back into bed and pretending I wasn't cured yet.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Climbing, Hands, Breathing

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.709, Dell

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