Five Fingers Quotes

• The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.

  James Cash Penney

  Independent, Organization, Fists

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• A team is a fist-not five fingers.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Team, Fists

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• Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Hands, Judging Yourself, Judging Others

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• Before pointing fingers make sure your hands are clean.

  Bob Marley

  Hands, Judging Others, I'm Not Perfect

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• Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Knowledge, Thinking

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.226, Cambridge University Press

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• A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Team, Hands

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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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, Fists

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• If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.

  Adrienne Rich

  Thinking, One Direction, Rivers

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Poemas, 1963-2000”, p.134, Editorial Renacimiento

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• I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

  Todd Barry

  Thanksgiving, Chickens, Chicken Nuggets

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• That is my best friend because it is a gift of the creator to Africans. It is a spirit. Marijuana has five fingers of creation...it enhances all your five senses.

  Fela Kuti

  Marijuana, My Best Friend, Five Senses

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• The sun is perfect and you woke this morning. You have enough language in your mouth to be understood. You have a name, and someone wants to call it. Five fingers on your hand and someone wants to hold it. If we just start there, every beautiful thing that has and will ever exist is possible. If we start there, everything, for a moment, is right in the world.

  Warsan Shire

  Beautiful, Morning, Hands

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• Everybody needs some real rock in their lives...whether it's bands like ourselves, Aerosmith or Stones...or new bands like Five Finger Death Punch, Avenged Sevenfold...it's out there.

  Nikki Sixx

  Real, Rocks, Needs

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• When it comes down to it, I'm just a girl who wears those five-finger weird toe shoes.

  Shailene Woodley

  Girl, Shoes, Toes

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• I frankly felt like the reception we received on the way in from the airport was very warm and hospitable. And I want to thank the Canadian people who came out to wave -- with all five fingers -- for their hospitality.

  George W. Bush

  Witty, Airports, People

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• Those five fingers and that palm were like a display case crammed full of everything I wanted to know--and everything I had to know. By taking my hand, she showed me what these things were. That within the real world, a place like this existed. In the space of those ten seconds I became I tiny bird, fluttering in the air, the wind rushing by. From high in the sky I could see a scene far away. It was so far off I couldn't make it out clearly, yet something was there, and I knew that someday I would travel to that place.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Air, Hands

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• I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we have five fingers rather than six.' --spoken by The Bluejay, aka Mo the Bookbinder, from 'Inkdeath

  Cornelia Funke

  Teaching, Thinking, Our World

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• It's funny how you can't ask difficult questions in a familiar place, how you have to stand back a few feet and see things in a new way before you realize nothing that is happening to you is normal. The trouble with you and me is we are used to what is happening to us. We grew into our lives like a kernel beneath the earth, never able to process the enigma of our composition...Nothing is normal. It is all rather odd, isn't it, our eyes in our heads, our hands with five fingers, the capacity to understand beauty, to feel love, to feel pain.

  Donald Miller

  Pain, Eye, Feet

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• After an awkward pause, Bast extended his hand. Chronicler hesitated for a bare moment before reaching out quickly, as if he were sticking his hand into a fire. Nothing happened, both of them seemed moderately surprised. "Amazing, isn't it?" Kvothe addressed them bitingly. "Five fingers and flesh with blood beneath. One could almost believe that on the other end of that hand lay a person of some sort.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Believe, Fire, Blood

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