Fists Quotes - Page 15

• A person comes into the world with a fist-and a grasp. Yes, we are built to fight one another, but also to embrace. How cleverly we are created.

  Rachel Simon

  Fighting, World, Embrace

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• Shake your fist all you want but dead is dead

  Steven Erikson

  Want, Shakes

  Steven Erikson (2009). “Gardens Of The Moon: (Malazan Book Of The Fallen 1)”, p.86, Random House

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• I wonder if it's ever really possible to know the truth about someone else, or if the best we can do is just stumble into each other, heads down, hoping to avoid collision. I...wonder how many people are clutching secrets like little fists, little rocks sitting in the pits of their stomachs. All of them, maybe.

  Lauren Oliver

  Rocks, People, Secret

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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 must do now.

  Margaret Atwood

  Knees, Clue, Solutions

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle”, Treasure Press

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• [Roland] jerked back too fast to see, and his fist was suddenly connecting with my chin. I didn't pass out, but my body went limp. Part of me was screaming silently. The other part was saying, 'Oh, what pretty trees.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Tree, Body, Chins

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.1477, Penguin

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• We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people no longer speak to each other Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings Born into this Into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s cheaper to die Into lawyers who charge so much it’s cheaper to plead guilty Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes

  Charles Bukowski

  Country, War, Hero

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.475, Canongate Books

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• Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something that will make you weep uncontrollably, pound your fists against the floor, and leave tearstains all over your pillowcase, sheets, and boomerang collection.

  Daniel Handler

  Boredom, Pounds, Boring

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• It’s a small story really, about, among other things: * A girl * Some words * An accordionist * Some fanatical Germans * A Jewish fist fighter * And quite a lot of thievery

  Markus Zusak

  Girl, Stories, Fighter

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• Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

  Ariel Gore

  Heart, Fighting, Size

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• Faris turned on him. "Why choose to wear black today, of all days? I know why I'm in black. Why are you? Mourning? He looked startled. "One does not wear mourning for a servant." You still don't understand, do you? He was not my servant." He regarded her anger, aghast. "What then? What else could he be? Her empty hands shook as she held them out to him. Her voice shook as she replied, "Glove to my hand." Slowly she closed her fists. "Everything.

  Caroline Stevermer

  Hands, Voice, Mourning

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• One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a fist.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Home, Hands, Lifetime

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2004). “The Namesake: A Novel”, p.167, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Giving jump starts our relationship with God. It opens our fists so we can receive what God has for us.

  Randy Alcorn

  Giving, Our Relationship, Relationship With God

  Randy Alcorn, Brian Smith (2010). “The Treasure Principle Bible Study: Discovering the Secret of Joyful Giving”, p.34, Multnomah

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• It's true, isn't it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled behind like a fist, living gnarled and shrunken beneath the plain, open one we use every day.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Heart, Two, Secret

  Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press

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• hanging out the window, Amber blew her a kiss. a lump the size of a fist clogged Heather's throat, while a breeze from th sea pushed her thick hair away from her face. tears trickled unchecked down her cheeks.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Kissing, Hair, Sea

  Lurlene McDaniel (2007). “Angel of Mercy”, p.10, Laurel Leaf

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• Everyone I have lost in the closing of a door the click of the lock is not forgotten, they do not die but remain within the soft edges of the earth, the ash of house fires and cancer in sin and forgiveness huddled under old blankets dreaming their way into my hands, my heart closing tight like fists. - "Indian Boy Love Song #1

  Sherman Alexie

  Dream, Song, Cancer

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• This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.

  Mervyn Peake

  Night, Ivy, Long

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.12, The Overlook Press

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• Are there many people without illness or disability who sit at home in the evening with clenched fists, continually changing the channel of a television set and wishing they had the courage to roll over the parapet of a high bridge? I bet there are millions of us.

  Alasdair Gray

  Home, Bridges, People

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• Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.

  Christine Quinn

  Done, Activist, Standing

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• Tolerance is a one-way street in the Age of Obama. 'Choice' is in the eye (and iron fist) of the First Amendment usurper.

  Michelle Malkin

  Eye, Iron, Choices

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• To be political means to speak out, to risk being called 'catty', or worse. I don't hear men worrying about whether they may be right or not. They enjoy the fight, whether it is with words or fists. Women still tend to shy away from controversy, to be uncomfortable with competition.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Mean, Fighting, Men

  "In Politics, What Works For A Man Still Does Not Work For A Woman" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2009.

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• And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Keys, Pockets, Mines

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.69, Hamilton Books

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• I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.

  Roberto Bolano

  Dream, Night, Touching

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• In order to get the things I want, it helps me to pretend I’m a figure in a daytime drama, a schemer. Soap opera characters make emphatic pronouncements. They ball up their fists and state their goals out loud. ‘I will destroy Buchanan Enterprises,’ they say. ‘Phoebe Wallingford will pay for what she’s done to our family.’ Walking home with the back half of the twelve-foot ladder, I turned to look in the direction of Hugh’s loft. ‘You will be mine,’ I commanded.

  David Sedaris

  Drama, Home, Character

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• The look Anthony shot at his sister was so comically malevolent Simon nearly laughed. He managed to restrain himself, but mostly just because he was fairly certain that any show of humor would cause Anthony's fist to lose its battle with his brain, with Simon's face emerging as the conflict's primary casualty.

  Julia Quinn

  Brain, Battle, Looks

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• She didn't flirt with him, but they hung out together a lot, and every time I saw their heads bent over a computer screen or map, it made my stomach clench. And my teeth. And my fists.

  James Patterson

  Flirting, Together, Teeth

  James Patterson (2008). “Maximum Ride: The Final Warning”, p.149, Random House

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