Closed Fists Quotes

#1. We know we cannot plant seeds with closed fists. To sow, we must open our hands.

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

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

Ally Carter

#3. They held each other and wept as the night closed its fist around their tiny shelter, and the world below them seethed with killers both living and dead.

Jonathan Maberry

#4. We all struggle alone through the ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows of our lives.

Elizabeth Kim

#5. With a DVD, you want something you can own, you can watch, you can come to grips with and you can explore. It's something larger than the film, when it's going out to a fan base.

David Slade

#6. I am an archivist. I am a librarian. I collect words because words are the truest and longest-lasting craft in the world.

Seanan McGuire

#7. You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system.

Erol Ozan

#8. I closed my eyes and curled my fists around the things I knew for sure:
That a scallop has thirty-five eyes, all blue.
That a tuna will suffocate if it ever stops swimming.
That I was loved.
That this time, it was not me who broke

Jodi Picoult

#9. We enter the world with fists closed and when we leave, our hands are open. He said I should make full use of the time given to me for my life

Debalina Haldar

#10. Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph

Allen Ginsberg

#11. Error will slip through a crack, while truth will stick in a doorway.

Josh Billings

#12. If you can answer the question of why you're doing it, it's the right thing to do.

Justin Timberlake

#13. Now the profile of our country looks a little less hard nosed / but that picket line persisted and that clinic's since been closed / they keep pounding their fists on reality hoping it will break / but I don't think there's a one of us leads a life free of mistakes

Ani DiFranco

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

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#15. Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow? Let's think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#16. It cannot be helped." Gorgoth's hands closed into massive fists. "It's in his dena." "His dinner?

Mark Lawrence

#17. Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.

Virgil

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#19. the main character saying things like "In my world, chocolate is a vegetable.

Susan Wiggs

#20. You have to give me advance warning if you're going to wear that - or else we're not going to be secret for very long.

Katie Delahanty

#21. Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.

Fulton J. Sheen

#22. There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

Jane Austen

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

Catherynne M Valente

#24. You are the sum total of your dominating or most prominent thoughts.

Napoleon Hill

#25. All day long he was docile, intelligent, good, Though sometimes changing to a darker mood. He seemed hypocritical, could tell better lies, in the dark he saw dots of colors behind closed eyes, clenched fists, put his tongue out at his elder brother.

Arthur Rimbaud

#26. Battered by the mind noise, huddled in the back with eyes closed and fists clenched, the old Melissa had understood pep rallies about as well as a bird sucked through a jet engine comprehended aircraft design.

Scott Westerfeld

#27. I need to keep reinventing myself.

Orlando Bloom

#28. But we know that just because we want something does not mean that we will get what we want,

Madeleine L'Engle