Fists Quotes

As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.

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.

Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over people, power to the State.

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

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

When we get out of this, I'm gonna shove my fist right into your ass, hard and fast Not in the sexual way! In the 'I am pissed off' sort of way.

You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread.

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.

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

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

Power is more than the punch. I get so much power and belief in myself from God, and from God the power passes through my legs, through my hips, up to my shoulders, through my arms, and into my fists...I'm written to be a legend.

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

Those who never rebelled against God or at some point in their lives shaken their fists in the face of heaven, have never encountered God at all.

I don't think that there's that much difference between a photograph of a fist up someone's ass and a photograph of carnations in a bowl.

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

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!

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

When Glenda Jackson reveals that she has never been in a relationship with a man in which he hasn't raised his fists to her, I don't know whether this tells us more about the contemporary male or about Glenda Jackson.

Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?

I believe in using words, not fists.

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.

One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.

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

A fist is more than the sum of its fingers.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

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.

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

What we used to settle with common sense or a fist, we settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons.

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

I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table.

Compassion gives us a common ground to stand on regardless of your faith background. It gives us a chance to stand shoulder-to-shoulder rather than go fist-to-fist with somebody.

Right at the end of the big wall of vibrators, $29.95, big rubber fist. Thirty bucks! Just in time for mothers day.

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

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

Onstage I've been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist.

I haven't had this much fun since the rats ate my baby sister

Sin is a clenched fist and a blow in the face of God.

What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in simply owning pockets one owned riches, owned independence.

I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.

The next election will be a flyweight versus a heavyweight. However much the right hon. Gentleman [David Cameron] may dance around the ring beforehand, at some point, he will come within the reach of a big clunking fist...

Memory shrinks until it fits in a fist memory shrinks without forgetting

The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.

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

And clenching your fist for the ones like us Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty.

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist.

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

Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed.

If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.