Fists Quotes - Page 17

So here are some foolproof recipes for those of you who understand the true function of food.
Bean Treat: Gingerly pour four fluid oz of beans or something into a jug. Cry. Eat the beans from the jug and pour the rest from the can down your throat. N.B. These taste better if they belong to somebody else in your house.
Pain au Dunk: Fists of bread, rent from the loaf and dunked into anything runnier than bread. Should eat at least six of these because…you should. Don’t toast the bread. Toast is cookery.

Dylan Moran

Pain, House, Four

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If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read? So that it shall make us happy? Good God, we should also be happy if we had no books, and such books as make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. But what we must have are those books which come upon us like ill fortune, and distress us deeply, like the death of one we love better than ourselves; like suicide. A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

Franz Kafka

Happiness, Suicide, Book

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When Glenda Jackson reveals that she has never been in a relationship with a man in which he hasn't raised his fists to her, I don't know whether this tells us more about the contemporary male or about Glenda Jackson.

Auberon Waugh

Men, Males, Raised

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You think the speed of your fingers can match the strength of my fists?

Mike Tyson

Thinking, Speed, Fingers

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America is not big enough to shake her fist in the face of a holy God and get away with it, and as I read this I want to explain something. I'm going to read this and then I want to explain something. As America has permitted homosexuality to establish itself as an alternate lifestyle, it is also reeling from the frightening spread of sexually transmitted disease. Sin begets its own consequence, both on individuals and nations.

Reggie White

America, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Want

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My coach confirmed to me my impression that he uses a different measuring stick to evaluate Almunia. For me, this was a huge disappointment. That has forced me to think about my situation. I have to ask myself what is still realistic and possible for me at Arsenal? When Wenger says something like that, it's going to be difficult for me to get back in here. It's very frustrating. When I see the performances on the field, I get angry and I have to clench my fist in my pocket.

Jens Lehmann

Disappointment, Thinking, Insulting

"Lehmann looks destined to go - but not quietly" by Dominic Fifield, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2007.

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There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities - potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry - that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.

Gregory Benford

Real, Math, Iron

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I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.

Anne Enright

Sex, Grief, Feelings

Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.7, Random House

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Okemah was one of the singingest, 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.

Woody Guthrie

Gun, Squares, Oil

"Pastures Of Plenty: A Self Portrait". Book by Woody Guthrie, p. 3, 1990.

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Think of yourselves as a hand. Each of you is a finger, and without the others you're useless. Alone, a finger can't grasp, or control, or form a fist. You are nothing on your own, and everything together.

Karen Traviss

Thinking, Hands, Together

Karen Traviss (2011). “Hard Contact: Star Wars Legends (Republic Commando)”, p.58, Del Rey

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The link between intimate violence in the home and the international violence of terrorism and war is as tightly bound together as the fingers of a clenched fist.

Riane Eisler

War, Home, Together

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When you are in a state of nonacceptance, it's difficult to learn. A clenched fist cannot receive a gift, and a clenched psyche grasped tightly against the reality of what must not be accepted cannot easily receive a lesson.

Roger Delano Hinkins

Acceptance, Reality, Lessons

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Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold it in our open palm and invite others to see it for themselves.

Mahatma Gandhi

Expression, Glimpse, Way

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I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa, I find myself longing for it to become big and strong--Mother Nature's fist of fury, Gaia's stern rebuke. Considering the havoc mankind has wreaked upon nature with deforesting, stripmining, and the destruction of animal habitat, it only seems fair that nature get some of its own back and teach us that there are forces greater than our own.

James Wolcott

Mother, Strong, Stupid

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You always fashioned yourself as the Empire's harshest Fist, didn't you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty's a virtue.

Steven Erikson

Empires, Virtue, Doms

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Those who never rebelled against God or at some point in their lives shaken their fists in the face of heaven, have never encountered God at all.

Catherine Marshall

God, Heaven, Faces

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A name is important. It isn't something you drop in the litter basket or on the ground. Your name is now people know you. The very mention of your name makes a picture spring to mind, whether it's a picture of clashing fists or a mighty mountain that can't be knocked down. Your name is who you are and how you're known even when you do something great or something dumb.

Rita Williams-Garcia

Spring, Names, People

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Rules with an iron fist, but sometimes in that fist is a rose.

Ike Barinholtz

Iron, Rose, Sometimes

"SXSW: Mindy Kaling Teaches Us 10 Things About Running a TV Show" by Ben Travers, www.indiewire.com. March 13, 2014.

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But when Bumby nursed, his fist clutching the fabric of my robe, his eyes soft and bottomless and locked on mine, as if I were the very heart of his universe, I couldn't help but melt into him.

Paula McLain

Heart, Eye, Nurse

Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.204, Ballantine Books

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If I had spent fourteen months in a small room with Jesus, I'd want to fist fight with him.

Billy Corgan

Jesus, Fighting, Small Rooms

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I now realize that just because you can take a punch does not mean you must stand in front of a fist, particularly not when the fist is your own.

Iyanla Vanzant

Mean, Doe, Realizing

Iyanla Vanzant (2008). “Tapping the Power Within: A Path to Self-Empowerment for Women”, p.65, Hay House, Inc

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I closed my eyes and curled my fists around the things I knew for sure: That a scallop has thirty-five eyes, all blue. That a tuna will suffocate if it ever stops swimming. That I was loved. That this time, it was not me who broke

Jodi Picoult

Eye, Swimming, Blue

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I'm not a girl anymore, I'm a woman and my heart beats like prizefighter's fists, and I have not stopped yet, I will not stop.

Daphne Gottlieb

Girl, Healing, Heart

Daphne Gottlieb (2011). “15 Ways to Stay Alive”, p.129, Manic D Press

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And of course most non-Catholics imagine that the Church is immensely rich, and that all Catholic institutions make money hand over fist, and that all the money is stored away somewhere to buy gold and silver dishes for the Pope and cigars for the College of Cardinals.

Thomas Merton

Wisdom, College, Hands

Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.81, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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It takes a lot of nerve to bang your fist and demand tougher juvenile gun laws while doing nothing to enforce the ones that already exist. I must point out that doubling the size of the criminal code will not matter if the Clinton-Gore administration refuses to vigorously enforce these laws.

Bill McCollum

Gun, Law, Matter

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