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  • A fist in the face is all you deserve from love you've misplaced.

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

    Children   Spring   Heart  
    E. B. White (2014). “Essays of E. B. White”, p.17, Harper Collins
  • The pain of hope dying is worse than his fists and boots.

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

    Class   Orchestra   Fists  
  • That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

    Air   Hands   Guy  
  • By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature.

    Angel   Men   Sharks  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.74, Harvard University Press
  • I glanced up at Zay, then walked over to stand next to him. "You look good with a baby in your arms," he murmured. I took his hand, careful with his fingers that were still wrapped in tape. "Don't get your hopes up, Jones. I'm not the settling-down type." "Want to bet on that?" he asked. "Sure." I made a fist; so did he. We pumped three times. I threw paper. Zayvion threw scissors. I'd lost. Startled, I looked up at him. "Two out of three?" Zay grinned. So did I.

    Baby   Hands   Two  
  • As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.

    Sports   Kids   Thinking  
  • People with clenched fists can not shake hands.

  • Somebody has to wear the black hat and give the audience someone to shake their fists at. They want someone to hate. And if that's what you want to pay me to do, I'm happy to do it!

    Hate   Giving   Black  
    "Jane Elliot Dishes Her Role as General Hospital's Queen of Mean". Interview with Michael Logan, www.tvguide.com. May 15, 2012.
  • You know, these guys want to talk about God; 'Oh, I want to thank God. I want to thank God.' Listen, I'm a God-fearing man, go to church every Sunday and have since I was a boy. But if I ever found out that God cared one way or another about a borderline illegal fist-fight on Saturday night, I would be so greatly disappointed that it would make rethink my entire belief system.

    Fighting   Sunday   Boys  
  • Everyone I have lost in the closing of a door the click of the lock is not forgotten, they do not die but remain within the soft edges of the earth, the ash of house fires and cancer in sin and forgiveness huddled under old blankets dreaming their way into my hands, my heart closing tight like fists. - "Indian Boy Love Song #1

    Dream   Song   Cancer  
  • 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.

    Fists   Kind   Rings  
    J. R. Ward (2013). “Lover at Last: Number 11 in series”, p.608, Hachette UK
  • You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread.

    Hands   Fists   Fingers  
    "Guts & Glory: World War II". Book by Ben Thompson, Hachette UK, 2016.
  • Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

    Heart   Fighting   Fists  
  • People like rumors. They're going to say things like, 'You was at the club with Lil' Kim, and you and Kanye West got into a fist fight.' You can't get upset. You've got to keep hope alive.

    Fighting   People   Upset  
  • Corporate types love to pretend their life is exciting. The whispers, fist-pumping and animated hand gestures are all designed to lift our job description from what it really is - that of an overpaid clerk

    Jobs   Hands   Clerks  
  • In the face of brutality I was prudent. Before injustice I held my peace. I sacrificed the things in hand for the good of the hypothetical whole. I believed in the tongue instead of the fist. As an armor against oppression I taught patience and faith in the human soul. I know now how wrong I was. I have been a traitor to myself and to my people. All that is rot.

    Fighting   Hands   People  
    "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter".
  • We got off at the next exit, quietly, and, switching drivers, we walked in front of the car. We met and I held him, my hands balled into tight fists around his shoulders, and he wrapped his short arms around me and squeezed tight, so that I felt the heaves of his chest as we realized over and over again that we were still alive. I realized it in waves and we held on to each other crying and I thought, 'God we must look so lame,' but it doesn't matter when you have just now realized, all the time later, that you are still alive.

    Real   Hands   Car  
    John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.164, Penguin
  • There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities - potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry - that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.

    Real   Math   Iron  
  • Some scientists want to replace the handshake with the fist bump. Others want to replace the fist bump with the 'tush push.'

    Bumps   Fists   Want  
    Twitter post from Sep 09, 2014
  • When you denigrate people, they have two ways to fight back - with their fists and guns, or their mouths. And mouths are seemingly the easiest way to not get hit back. If people are laughing, they're not going to hit you.

    Fighting   Gun   Two  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then ... pick out his brains.

    Power   Hands   Ties  
  • I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa, I find myself longing for it to become big and strong--Mother Nature's fist of fury, Gaia's stern rebuke. Considering the havoc mankind has wreaked upon nature with deforesting, stripmining, and the destruction of animal habitat, it only seems fair that nature get some of its own back and teach us that there are forces greater than our own.

    Mother   Strong   Stupid  
  • The look Anthony shot at his sister was so comically malevolent Simon nearly laughed. He managed to restrain himself, but mostly just because he was fairly certain that any show of humor would cause Anthony's fist to lose its battle with his brain, with Simon's face emerging as the conflict's primary casualty.

    Brain   Battle   Looks  
  • If Chisora wants to kiss me, OK, if he likes me so much, but the best answer for him will be an answer with a fist in the ring.

  • In order to get the things I want, it helps me to pretend I’m a figure in a daytime drama, a schemer. Soap opera characters make emphatic pronouncements. They ball up their fists and state their goals out loud. ‘I will destroy Buchanan Enterprises,’ they say. ‘Phoebe Wallingford will pay for what she’s done to our family.’ Walking home with the back half of the twelve-foot ladder, I turned to look in the direction of Hugh’s loft. ‘You will be mine,’ I commanded.

    Drama   Home   Character  
    David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”
  • Hurt me to see the pain across my mothers face, every time my father's fist would put her in her place.

    Family   Mother   Hurt  
    Song: I'm OK, Album: Stripped, 2002
  • Heat flushed Chauncey's neck; it took all his energy to curl his hands into two weak fists. He laughed at himself, but there was no humor. He had no idea how, but the boy was inflicting the nausea and weakness inside him. It would not lift until he took the oath. He would say what he had to, but he swore in his heart he would destroy the boy for this humiliation.

    Heart   Boys   Ideas  
    Kate Brian, Jessica Verday, Richard Yancey, Scott Westerfeld, Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “All Good Things Come to an End: Free Teen eSampler”, p.58, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    Hands   Deceit   Fists  
    First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009
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