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• Love, after all, was universal. Qhuinn closed his fist up tight, and knew he would never, ever take that ring off. “Always,” Blay murmured. “Because family is an always kind of thing.

  J.R. Ward

  Kind, Rings, Universal

  J. R. Ward (2013). “Lover at Last: Number 11 in series”, p.608, Hachette UK

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• A man touched me:  his hand... my thigh. I touched him too:  my fist... his jaw.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Men, Hands, Thighs

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• Preacher who says that the sweet life is made from bitter parts is more or less telling those who have come to mourn the teenage suicide that this is just one bitter ingredient in the sweet thing foreordained by the benevolent god. To which I want to shake my fist and say: There is not one sweet thing about it. It is only bitter.

  Kyle Minor

  Suicide, Sweet, Teenage

  "To Rage Against Meaninglessness". Interview with Matt Bell, logger.believermag.com. February 6, 2014.

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• Has he ever trapped you in a room and not let you out?
  Has he ever raised a fist as if he were going to hit you?
  Has he ever thrown an object that hit you or nearly did?
  Has he ever held you down or grabbed you to restrain you?
  Has he ever threatened to hurt you?
  If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then we can stop wondering whether he'll ever be violent; he already has been.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Hurt, Answers, Rooms

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• Boxing’s an art, it’s a science, and you don’t go out to knock people out. If they happen to get knocked out, they happen to run into one of these bricks by mistake [looks at his fists], that’s their fault.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Running, Art, Motivation

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• When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.

  Alex Haley

  Educational, Hands

  Alex Haley (2016). “Roots: The Saga of an American Family”, p.327, Da Capo Press

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• The students I've been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes a little easier to love and a lot harder to hate, where learning nonviolence means that we dedicate our hearts, minds, time, and money to a commitment that the force of love, the force of truth, the force of justice, and the force of organized resistance to corrupt power are seen as sane and the force of fists, guns, armies, and bombs insane.

  Colman McCarthy

  Hate, Heart, Mean

  Colman McCarthy (2002). “I'd Rather Teach Peace”

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• Karate is a technique that permits one to defend himself with his bare hands and fists without weapons.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Hands, Technique, Weapons

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• I've learned... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.

  Andy Rooney

  Grandchildren, Littles, I've Learned

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• A hand fought best when it made a fist.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Hands, Made

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• What did Bush do on 9/11? He ran away and hid. Even Reagan knew more about leadership than that, and he was as bad a symbol of America as I can think of, off-hand. But at least he's been in enough cowboy movies to know he had to come out and stand on top of the rubble and be seen shaking his fist or something.

  George Clooney

  Cowboy, Thinking, America

  "Pretty boys can think" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2003.

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• If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Pleasure, God Is Dead, Megalomania

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• Writing is a weapon and it’s more powerful than a fist could ever be.

  Denzel Washington

  Powerful, Writing, Weapons

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• Jace,” she said. “Why are you doing this to me?” “Because you’re lying to me. And you’re lying to yourself.” Jace’s eyes were blazing, and even though his hands were stuffed into his pockets, she could see that they were knotted into fists.

  Cassandra Clare

  Lying, Eye, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.630, Simon and Schuster

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• Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.

  Rumi

  Change, Success, Birds Wings

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

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• I have watched Brock Lesnar for a really long time and I thought I knew how strong he was, I thought I knew how fast he was. Being in the ring with him, he is a completely different animal. He is a beast. They call him the Beast Incarnate and that is real. Whether you are in the Octagon with him trading fists, or in the ring trading German suplexes it is on another level. It was a pleasure and I am glad I got to be in the ring with him and i think I proved to the entire world I can hang with the guy.

  Seth Rollins

  Strong, Real, Thinking

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• To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.

  Barack Obama

  Hands, Deceit, Sides

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• Physical aggression by a man toward his partner is abuse, even if it happens only once. If he raises a fist; punches a hole in the wall; throws things at you; blocks your way; restrains you; grabs, pushes, or pokes you; or threatens to hurt you, that's physical abuse. He is creating fear and using your need for physical freedom and safety as a way to control you.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Hurt, Wall, Block

  Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.128, Penguin

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• A political movement must keep in touch with reality and the prevailing conditions. Long speeches, the shaking of fists, the banging of tables, and strongly worded resolutions out of touch with the objective conditions do not bring about mass action and can do a great deal of harm to the organization and the struggle we serve.

  Nelson Mandela

  Struggle, Reality, Organization

  Nelson Mandela (1978). “The struggle is my life”

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• I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are.

  Nora Ephron

  People, Laughing, Movement

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• The confessing church of American Ragamuffins needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code but a grace-laden mystery; it is not essentially a philosophy of love but a love affair; it is not keeping rules with clenched fists but receiving a gift with open hands.

  Brennan Manning

  Philosophy, Hands, Grace

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.135, Multnomah

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• Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.

  Alistair Begg

  Wealth, Flats, Goods

  Alistair Begg (2005). “Made For His Pleasure: Ten Benchmarks of a Vital Faith”, p.80, Moody Publishers

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• Corporate types love to pretend their life is exciting. The whispers, fist-pumping and animated hand gestures are all designed to lift our job description from what it really is - that of an overpaid clerk

  Chetan Bhagat

  Jobs, Hands, Clerks

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• Everyone’s chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes.

  Andrea Gibson

  Wall, Rooms, Hiding

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• Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have these epic, improbable reading projects arrayed before us, we cannot breathe our last: Tell the Angel of Death to come back later; I haven't quite finished Villette.

  Joe Queenan

  Reading, Angel, Epic

  "One For The Books". Book by Joe Queenan, 2012.

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