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• Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.

  Klaus Kinski

  Broken Heart, Running, Hurt

  "Klaus Kinski & The Thing" by Marcelle Clements. Playboy, Vol. 32, Iss. 11, November 1985.

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• Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Leadership, World, Tables

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• It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.

  Lester Bangs

  Air, Hands, Buttons

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You have to fight the green monster with your mind, not your fists.

  Matthew Broderick

  Fighting, Hands, Mind

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• In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.

  Victor Hugo

  Hands, Peace And Love, Stills

  "Toilers of the Sea".

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• Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)

  Brandon Sanderson

  Clever, World, Enough

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• One of the people who most influenced me was Ben Shapiro, a marketing professor at the business school. He used to rant and rave and pound his fist: 'It's all about the customers!' And he was right. He was also right that, at that time, retailing was devoid of really talented people; he urged me to go in that direction.

  Thomas G. Stemberg

  Educational, School, People

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• I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.

  Charlie Sheen

  Fire, Breathing, Done

  "CHARLIE SHEEN RAGES in Open Letter". www.tmz.com. February 25, 2011.

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• If we paint the phases of a riot, the crowd bustling with uplifted fists and the noisy onslaughts of cavalry are translated upon the canvas in sheaves of lines corresponding with all the conflicting forces, following the general laws of violence of the picture... These force-lines must encircle and involve the spectator so that he will in a manner be forced to struggle himself with the persons in the picture.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Struggle, Law, Phases

  "Les exposants au public". Booklet, p. 8, February 1912.

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• I think most people, when they think about the Black Panther Party, they think in very abstract, caricatured terms. They think about black fists in the air, but they don't think about the actual people, and the families, and the relationships.

  Kerry Washington

  Party, Thinking, Air

  "Kerry Washington" by Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 09, 2010.

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• You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change...

  Harper Lee

  Powerful, Trying, Ems

  "To Kill A Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, July 11, 1960.

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• He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.

  Stephen King

  Ghost, Twister, Stammering

  "It". www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• Whatever happened to chivalry? Does it only exist in 80's movies? I want John Cusack holding a boombox outside my window. I wanna ride off on a lawnmower with Patrick Dempsey. I want Jake from Sixteen Candles waiting outside the church for me. I want Judd Nelson thrusting his fist into the air because he knows he got me. Just once I want my life to be like an 80's movie, preferably one with a really awesome musical number for no apparent reason. But no, no, John Hughes did not direct my life.

  Emma Stone

  Air, Numbers, Waiting

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• A bud is a flower-to-be. A flower in waiting. Waiting for just the right warmth and care to open up. It's a little fist of love waiting to unfold and be seen by the world. And that's you.

  Christopher Paul Curtis

  Flower, Waiting, Bud

  Christopher Paul Curtis, Holt Rinehart & Winston (2002). “Bud, not Buddy: with connections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• The single clenched fist lifted and ready, Or the open asking hand held out and waiting. Choose: For we meet by one or the other.

  Carl Sandburg

  Inspirational, Peace, War

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is more power in the open hand than in the clenched fist.

  Herbert Newton Casson

  Power, Hands

  "The International Chemical Worker", Vol. 13-15, p. 192, 1953.

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• There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob that won't turn, a door that sticks and never budges, is a nuisance to the gods. The gods may kick in the jamb. Worse, they may walk away in disgust, leaving us to hang dumbly from our tight hinges, deprived of any other chance in life to swing open into unnecessary risk and thus into enchantment.

  Tom Robbins

  Destiny, Swings, Doors

  "Continental Drifting With Tom Robbins" by Mary Eisenhart, www.sfgate.com. July 23, 2000.

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• We cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.

  Adolfo Perez Esquivel

  Hands, Openness, Truth And Justice

  Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (1983). “Christ in a Poncho: Testimonials of the Nonviolent Struggles in Latin America”

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• …Forgive us, O Lord, we acknowledge ourselves as type of the common man, Of the men and women who shut the door and sit by the fire; Who fear the blessing of God, the loneliness of the night of God, the surrender required, the deprivation inflicted; Who fear the injustice of men less than the justice of God; Who fear the hand at the window, the fire in the thatch, the fist in the tavern, the push into the canal, Less than we fear the love of God.

  T. S. Eliot

  Loneliness, Blessing, Night

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I was a small boy, if we had a problem, we would fight about it with our fists. We wouldn't shoot somebody, killing them or wounding them. That's not hard to do. I would like people to put down the guns. If you have a problem, talk about it or fight about it.

  Snoop Dogg

  Fighting, Gun, Boys

  Interview with David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. October 1995.

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• The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.

  Karen White

  Hammers, Able, Wreckage

  Karen White (2011). “The Beach Trees”, p.238, Penguin

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• There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.

  Raymond Chandler

  Art, Science, Light

  Raymond Chandler (1976). “The notebooks of Raymond Chandler and English summer: a gothic romance”, Ecco

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• A pair of dolphins swept by us in the water, flicking their heads out to get a look at us as they went. One of them made a chittering sound that wasn't very melodic. The other twitched its tail and splashed a little water our way, all in good fun. They weren't the attractive Flipper kind of dolphins. They were regular dolphins that aren't as pretty and don't get cast on television. Maybe they just refused to sell out and see a plastic surgeon. I held up a fist to them. Represent.

  Jim Butcher

  Fun, Water, Pairs

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.2227, Penguin

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• His fingers leave streaks of cold on my skin, invisible to the eye, and I think about wrapping his shirt around my fist and pulling him in to kiss me; I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

  Veronica Roth

  Eye, Kissing, Thinking

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• Weird. I rang it three times.” – Nekoda “There might be something with out condo.” ‘Other than the fact that it lived under a perpetual dismal cloud and was infested with roaches the size of his fist. It was probably over a hellmouth, too, that didn’t allot for any kind of reception other than two cans joined by a length string.’ – Nick

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Clouds, Two, Three

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