Fists Quotes - Page 9

• You're a pretty cool customer, huh?" says Agent Hunt. "I hide my inner pain under my stoic visage." Agent Hunt looks like he would like to put his fist through my stoic visage.

  Holly Black

  Pain, Agents, Looks

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• If the self-discipline of the free cannot match the iron discipline of the mailed fist, in economic, political, scientific, and all the other kinds of struggles, as well as the military, then the peril to freedom will continue to rise.

  John F. Kennedy

  Military, Struggle, Self

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.305, Best Books on

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• If you make a fist and hold it for two hours, you won't be able to pick up a glass because you'll be so weak. Let's stay loose. Let's have fun.

  Lou Holtz

  Football, Fun, Glasses

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• If you walk through life in a fighting pose with your fists balled up and ready to strike, someone, someday, somewhere, is going to want to test your mettle.

  Neal Boortz

  Fighting, Want, Tests

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• We've gotta dispense with calling guys who are effeminate or who throw like girls "sissies." You know why? Because that diminishes women, and that can lead to such things as you decking your woman in a hotel elevator in New Jersey with your fist.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Girl, Guy, Jersey

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• China has been there for 3,000 years, has contempt for the barbarians, is overcoming a century of domination, and simply moves on its own. It does not get intimidated when Uncle Sam shakes his fist. That's scary.

  Noam Chomsky

  Uncles, Moving, Years

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I'm ready to see that new RZA movie [The Man With The Iron Fists] too, it looks kind of Tarantino-ish.

  Sean Price

  Men, Iron, Looks

  Source: hiphopdx.com

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• I can put my whole fist in my mouth! Wanna see?

  Karen Smith

  Mean Girls, Fetch, Mouths

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• No offence to Hugh MacLennan, but you don't even have to know or understand any deep philosophy that's being espoused, you can just have the feeling of those words together, and that you know them and can sing along with that melody with your fist up in the air. It's a wild vehicle for sentiment, because it's so powerful on the musical front.

  Sarah Harmer

  Powerful, Philosophy, Air

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There's always a place for the angry young man with his fist in the air and his head in the sand. He's never been able to learn from mistakes, he can't understand why his heart always breaks.

  Billy Joel

  Education, Mistake, Heart

  Song: Angry Young Man

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• My parents, last time we went to Ikea, got into a huge fight, almost got divorced. My dad accidentally put his fist through the wood. I don't know what it was made of. Just going there it's like a maze. My mom makes me go. I get lost. It's very stressful.

  Jedediah Bila

  Mom, Dad, Fighting

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The biggest threat to the American people today lies with the United States government. ... [T]he long-term solution is to dismantle, not reform, the iron fist of the welfare state and the controlled economy. This includes the end (not the reform) of the IRS, the DEA, the BATF, the SEC, the FDA, HUD, the departments of HHS, Labor, Agriculture, and energy, and every other agency that takes money from some and gives it to others or interferes with peaceful behavior.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Lying, Government, Iron

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• My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Way, Combat, Walks

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

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• Refrain from the violence of fist, tongue or heart. And heart is real important.

  Alveda King

  Real, Heart, Important

  Source: saynsumthn.wordpress.com

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• I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.

  Bob Goff

  Thinking, Church, Injustice

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• There's at least one fist bump every interview.

  M. Ward

  Bumps, Interviews

  "She & Him". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. March 15, 2010.

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• I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Dream, Language, Fracture

  "The New Gods". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1969.

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• Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.

  Ann Voskamp

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Darkness

  "How To Find The Holy Grail of Joy" by Ann Voskamp, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2011.

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• Golfers don't fist fight. They cuss a bit. But they wouldn't punch anything or anybody. They might hurt their hands and have to change their grip.

  Dan Jenkins

  Hurt, Fighting, Hands

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• I think I feel vulnerable most of the time. I feel on guard. I've gotten pretty good at putting my fists down and kind of allowing the world to be, so that I don't feel threatened as much.

  Matt Nathanson

  Thinking, World, Down And

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• One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness. A knife that is keen is also a knife that cuts neatly; it isn't brutal. Sharpness is different from brutality. Brutality is clumsy: it is wide - it has a lot of fist and thumb and no delicate finger.

  Eli Siegel

  Mean, Cutting, Knives

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• If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.

  Plautus

  Hands, Suffering, Strikes

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 762-63, Truculentus, IV. 2. 54, 1922.

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• That was my earliest maladaptive coping mechanism I forged when I was a kid. I found that my fists weren't going to do any significant protective work for me, so my mouth was it. Making my father laugh was a way to control him.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Father, Kids, Coping Mechanisms

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Fighting, Advice, Mind

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• I don't need to do all the trash talking. I try to do it with my fists, my knees, and my feet.

  Robbie Lawler

  Feet, Talking, Mma

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