Fists Quotes - Page 19

• I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There's nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists.

  John Steinbeck

  Wall, Hate, Fighting

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.51, Penguin

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• When I get to the movie set, I don't need to have a sort of iron fist that a movie is about me and my ideas. A lot of filmmakers don't have that benefit, so when they have their moment to let all that creativity out of them, it's all about them. It's their movie; it's their thing.

  Andrew Levitas

  Creativity, Ideas, Iron

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Usually in fist fights you get punched in the face.

  David James Elliott

  Fighting, Faces

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Shura, I’m yours. You may not like it today, you may not want it tonight, you may wish for it all to be different now, but it remains, and I remain, as always, only yours. Nothing can change that. Not your wrath, your fists, your body or your death.

  Paullina Simons

  Wrath, Wish, Different

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• My fist so rocky and and wrist so icy,
  Might be, thrown off my rocker just slightly,
  Feisty, claimin' hot temper don't ignite me,
  I'm only gonna ask ya find the exit once politely

  T.I.

  Hip Hop, Hot, Icy

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• If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.

  Martial

  Food, Giving, Teeth

  Martial (1907). “The Epigrams of Martial”

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• Why won't you drown?" he wailed, pummeling me with his fists. "I'm Poseidon's son," I said. "Curse that upstart! I was here first!

  Rick Riordan

  Son, Firsts, Poseidon

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• Carra doesn't like me to fist him before the games, so I give him a high-five instead.

  Pepe Reina

  Football, Games, Giving

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• The pain of hope dying is worse than his fists and boots.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Pain, Dying, Boots

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• You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a fist), it's damn near impossible to turn this around.

  Ray Lewis

  Inspirational Life, Together, Impossible

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• You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.

  Stephen King

  Girl, Eye, Writing

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• « He squeezed his hands into fists. I picked up a grapefruit-sized rock and handed it to him. It went flying. Home run, Beast Lord style. 

  Ilona Andrews

  Running, Home, Rocks

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• I love you. I love you, but I’m turning to my verses and my heart is closing like a fist.

  Frank O'Hara

  Love You, Heart, Closing

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.201, Univ of California Press

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• Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea.

  John Ford

  Time, Fate, Sea

  "Tis Pity She's a Whore' (1633) act 5, sc. 4

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• We must apply our humble efforts to the construction of a more just and humane world. And I want to declare emphatically: Such a world is possible. To create this new society, we must present outstretched and friendly hands, without hatred and rancor, even as we show great determination and never waver in the defense of truth and justice. Because we know that we cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.

  Adolfo Perez Esquivel

  Determination, Peace, Humble

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• Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.

  Elie Wiesel

  Positivity, Hands, Waiting

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• She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.

  Anthony Marra

  Four, Language, Defeat

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• If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus fist, but by His nail-pierced hands; not by muscle but by love; not by vengeance but by forgiveness; not by force but by sacrifice. Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Easter, Sacrifice

  The Parish Newsletter of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, April 2014.

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• I can't seem to keep my heart from leaking out of the cracks, like sand clutched in a fist.

  Kiersten White

  Heart, Cracks, Sand

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• Forgot to live-tweet the election last night, so I'm post-tweeting today. I'll start as soon as my fingers unclench from their rage fists.

  Stephen Colbert

  Night, Today, Lasts

  Twitter post from Nov 08, 2012

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• When I see Almunia's performances, I get angry and have to make a fist in my pocket

  Jens Lehmann

  Pockets, Performances, Angry

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• When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

  Camille Paglia

  Children, Dad, Father

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The giant raised his fist, and a voice cut through the dream. "Leo!" Jason was shaking his shoulder. "Hey, man, why are you hugging Nike?" Leo's eyes fluttered open. His arms were wrapped around the human-sized statue in Athena's hand. He must have been thrashing in his sleep. He clung to the victory goddess like he used to cling to his pillow when he had nightmares as a kid. (Man, that had been so embarrassing in the foster homes.) He disentangled himself and sat up, rubbing his face. "Nothing," he muttered. "we were just cuddling. Um, what's going on?

  Rick Riordan

  Dream, Nike, Sleep

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• I've definitely had my fair share at shaking my fists at the gods of Hollywood, but I'm learning that I cannot think that way or I will go crazy.

  Sarah Drew

  Crazy, Thinking, Hollywood

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• You’ve claimed me, little firecracker. You kicked a pair of two hundred pound men’s asses. I will never get over that. You kicked my whores out. Pete told me. You staked your claim on me, even before you realized I’d staked mine already.” He fists my hair and pulls me close to his lips. “I’m yours now … Even if I screw this up, I’ll still be your screw-up.

  Katy Evans

  Men, Hair, Two

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