Fists Quotes

Fight your battles with words, not fists

She just kept hitting me in the head with her fists, over, and over and over.

In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.

When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

hold your head high and keep those fists down - Atticus Finch

We'll hold out our hand; they have to unclench their fist.

But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

There is nowhere to go. What you are looking for is right here. Open the fist clenched in wanting and see what you already hold in your hand

I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.

To pray with your fists closed means you're hanging onto something. Let it go. Open your hands to God.

Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.

One has to build a fist against anti-Semitism-a first class orchestra will be this fist.

We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.

If your songs connect with the fans and they pump their fists in the air and go "Yeah!!" that's when a song really works. That's the electric church of it. The glory hallelujah of it.

...I remain restless and dissatisfied; what I knot with my right hand, I undo with my left, what my left hand creates, my right fist shatters

Why not stand up, pump your fists in the air, and scream like a maniac? -

She didn't flirt with him, but they hung out together a lot, and every time I saw their heads bent over a computer screen or map, it made my stomach clench. And my teeth. And my fists.

When I see Almunia's performances, I get angry and have to make a fist in my pocket

And when he did that, my hands curled into fists because I thought about touching his face like maybe I could catch joy in my hands and hold it.

This country will not be a peaceful place for us to live if we do not make it to be a peaceful place with our fists.

We hold each other's lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.

I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice.

Imagine what I would have done with my fire-breathing fists.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

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

Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open.

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

And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine.

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.

I don't know if I would go so far to say that I would punch someone in the face, but I would definitely stand up for my lady. But sometimes it's more attractive to use your words than your fists.

Freedom to rock, freedom to talk. Freedom, raise your fist and yell.

You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing.

What have you done?' he said, his voice hollow and strained. He stepped back and put his fists to his temples. 'What have you done!' With an effort, Eragon said, 'Made you understand.

I think we are inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say ‘we know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage’...

I'm not a girl anymore, I'm a woman and my heart beats like prizefighter's fists, and I have not stopped yet, I will not stop.

Usually in fist fights you get punched in the face.

So much time weeping and wailing and shaking our fists, creating enemies that really don't exist.

As I watched him on the stage, my hands were clinched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell, could break that Satan's spell.

I love you. I love you, but I’m turning to my verses and my heart is closing like a fist.

Raise your hands in the air, pump your fists, and solemnly swear to rock the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Just be patient, she told herself, and with the mounting pages, the strength of her writing fist grew.

You think the speed of your fingers can match the strength of my fists?

Those who would rule with an iron fist always fear the free expression of opinions by those they would suppress.

Giving jump starts our relationship with God. It opens our fists so we can receive what God has for us.

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

Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.

A team is a fist-not five fingers.

My chest expanded and I suddenly wanted to beat on it with my fist. The girl was making me go all caveman." -Marcus Hardy

I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.

Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.