Fists Quotes

Despite popular belief, hitting someone with a closed fist actually hurts the hitter almost as much as the hittee.

I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.

She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.

Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

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.

When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.

What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?

Some scientists want to replace the handshake with the fist bump. Others want to replace the fist bump with the 'tush push.'

I have always done my own stunts, and I have been in hundreds of fights in films, but I have never been in a fist fight outside the movies.

A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder.

Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.

I always held my flower in a clenched fist.

Just tolerate my little fist tugging on your forest chest

It's easy, almost comforting, to dismiss Trumpism as the cry of laid-off men in rust-belt states shaking their wrinkled fists at the juggernaut of modernity.

You have to come to the world of enlightenment with open hands, not clinched fists, without an agenda.

He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.

The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.

Al: So what's your strategy? Ed: I told you, a fist in his face!

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.

Rules with an iron fist, but sometimes in that fist is a rose.

The only time Republicans will shake fists and point fingers is over a war delayed, one that isn't led by the US, or a war waged without the necessary conviction (read collateral damage).

« He squeezed his hands into fists. I picked up a grapefruit-sized rock and handed it to him. It went flying. Home run, Beast Lord style.

I now realize that just because you can take a punch does not mean you must stand in front of a fist, particularly not when the fist is your own.

Love, after all, was universal. Qhuinn closed his fist up tight, and knew he would never, ever take that ring off. “Always,” Blay murmured. “Because family is an always kind of thing.

An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.

In Canada you can still settle things with your fists. If there's a fight in a bar, no one goes to jail.

I will never stand for a national anthem again. I will turn my back and I will raise a fist.

One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a fist.

Well this is just a fist. But when I start throwing it around I can leave one hell of a mess.

A man touched me: his hand... my thigh. I touched him too: my fist... his jaw.

Only Hungry Joe had something better to do each time he finished his missions. He had screaming nightmares and won fist fights with Huple's cat.

Like is an emotion. Emotions”—he raised a hand, made a fist, clenched it tightly—“are like holding water. You open your hand, there’s nothing there. Better to be a weapon than a woman.

I hammered him with my fists. He just stood and took it. He didn't suffer graciously, he looked pissed off to no end. But he let me hit him. And he didn't hit me back.

I can't seem to keep my heart from leaking out of the cracks, like sand clutched in a fist.

I decided that I'm not going to pound my fist anymore at those folks and at laws that I can't change.

One thing I have learned is, if people tell you they had a "frank" discussion with someone, it is usually code for a yelling match with clenched fists.

I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control?

As a boxer I took the liberty of using not only my fists, but also my head.

I resist the urge to pump my fist. I'm not sure why, but I feel like I've just won some sort of competition worthy of headlines.

There's at least one fist bump every interview.

Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold it in our open palm and invite others to see it for themselves.

I balled my hands into tight fists to keep them from wrapping around Mr. I-Know-Everything's superior neck.

In a world that lives like a fist mercy is not more than waking with your hands open.

When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)

When death captures me,' the boy vowed, 'he will feel my fist on his face.' Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry. Yes. I like that a lot.

It’s a small story really, about, among other things: * A girl * Some words * An accordionist * Some fanatical Germans * A Jewish fist fighter * And quite a lot of thievery

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

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.

If you don't like an idea, put another idea against it! If you use your fist against an idea that you don't like, you only prove how horribly primitive you are!