Top 100 Sayings About A Fist
#1. The gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist.
Hannah Kent
#2. It's by stooping that fingers create a fist, and by standing tall that they give us open palms.
Agona Apell
#3. Writing is a weapon and it's more powerful than a fist could ever be.
Denzel Washington
#4. Broke your jaw once before
Spilt your blood upon the floor
You broke my leg in return
So let's sit back and watch the bed burn
Well love sticks sweat drips
Break the lock if it don't fit
A kick in the teeth is good for some
A kiss with a fist is better than none
Florence Welch
#5. I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control?
Laurell K. Hamilton
#6. Conviction is a fist of stone at the heart of all things. Its form is shaped by sure hands, the detritus quickly swept from view. It is built to withstand, built to defy challenge, and when cornered it fights without honour. There is nothing more terrible than conviction.
Steven Erikson
#7. One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.
David Allan Coe
#8. Well this is just a fist. But when I start throwing it around I can leave one hell of a mess.
Jim Carrey
#9. One has to build a fist against anti-Semitism-a first class orchestra will be this fist.
Bronislaw Huberman
#10. 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.
Bernie Mac
#11. 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.
Karen Marie Moning
#12. Thanks a bunch, brother. Remind me to thank you with a fist in your fool face.
Sandra Hill
#13. If you make a fist and hold it for two hours, you won't be able to pick up a glass because you'll be so weak. Let's stay loose. Let's have fun.
Lou Holtz
#14. From somewhere comes the sound of fire: the sound of dried roses being crumbled in a fist.
Anthony Doerr
#15. She had seen just now what she had only sensed before, that the whole world was ready to be their enemy, and suddenly what she and Carol had together seemed no longer love or anything happy but a monster between them, with each of them caught in a fist.
Patricia Highsmith
#16. The first time I walked into the room and saw Naya asleep on Lucas's chest while he slept, too, his hand over her naked baby butt ... " Sascha sighed, rubbing a fist over her heart. "I don't think I've recovered.
Nalini Singh
#17. Amy put her hand on mine, her other hand balled up in a fist on the table.
David Wong
#18. I nearly gave a fist pump. Thank God for rules I was totally clueless about.
Aileen Erin
#19. He'd missed the first wasp, when it built its paperfine gray house on the blistered paint of the windowframe, but soon the nest was a fist-sized lump of fiber, insects hurtling out to hunt the alley below like miniature copters buzzing the rotting contents of the dumpsters.
William Gibson
#20. Gos had steely pinions and a mad marigold eye, and hopped and flew and mantled his great wings over a fist of raw liver. He cheeped like a songbird and was terrified of cars. I liked Gos. Gos was comprehensible, even if the writer was utterly beyond understanding.
Helen Macdonald
#22. The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.
H.G.Wells
#23. Think of it this way," he rubbed a fist under his square jaw, "If we hadn't been on the same flight or at the same hotel, you would've had no one to spill your drinks on.
Ophelia London
#24. Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed.
Rumi
#25. I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
Aimee Bender
#26. Strange, isn't it,' mused Glokta as he watched him struggle for air. 'Big men, small men, thin men, fat men, clever men, stupid men, they all respond the same to a fist in the guts. One minute you think you're the most powerful man in the world. The next you can't even breathe by yourself.
Joe Abercrombie
#27. In my day, the drug was alcohol and the weapon was a fist, so it was very sort of innocent and primitive. Now you've got drugs, guns, and knives, which are so lethal.
Michael Caine
#28. I've read in the National Geographic about deepsea diving and why you have to wear a thick metal suit or the invisible pressure of the heavy undersea water will crush you like mud in a fist, until you implode. This is the word: implode. It has a dull final sound to it, like a lead door closing.
Margaret Atwood
#29. I love you. I love you,
but I'm turning to my verses
and my heart is closing
like a fist.
Frank O'Hara
#30. There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.
Will.i.am
#31. In a world that lives like a fist
mercy is not more than waking
with your hands open.
Mark Nepo
#32. On the way home, I saw a fist fight between an adverb and a pair of parentheses.
I kept on walking.
Peter James West
#33. 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.
Robert Mapplethorpe
#34. 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.
Dennis Quaid
#35. When I left boxing in 1977 to be a preacher, I couldn't make a fist after I learned about Jesus Christ.
George Foreman
#36. He balled his hand into a fist. "You are such a bitch." "Woof, woof," I said.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#37. Make a fist. Lightly. Leave enough room for a breath to pass through. Good. Good. All magic proceeds from breath. Remember that.
Clive Barker
#38. He took the fucking piano, Sunshine. He didn't take everything. Look at your left hand. It's probably clenched in a fist right now, isn't it?"
I don't need to look. It is. He knows it.
"Now open it up and let it go."
And I do.
Katja Millay
#39. A fist in the face is all you deserve from love you've misplaced.
Rodney Crowell
#40. The park admits the wind,
the petals lift and scatter
like versions of myself I was on the verge
of becoming; and ten years on
and ten blocks down I still can't tell
whether this dispersal resembles
a fist unclenching or waving goodbye.
Rachel Wetzsteon
#41. I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice.
Louise Erdrich
#42. Hate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist holds a stick.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#43. So, you got shit-faced, spray-painted a barn with a lovely shade of Exorcist-green puke, fucked a donkey while you were there, and started a fist fight with a recovering, meth-addicted nun and her lovechild who were reenacting the nativity scene?
Kendall Grey
#44. There they stood, in twos and threes and fours, in their Cub Scout uniforms and with their Cub Scout faces, totally unprepared, as is the way with American he-men, for anything that could not be settled with a club or a fist or a gun.
James Baldwin
#45. The victim's hand was contracted into a fist except for the middle digit, which was rigidly extended.
Carl Hiaasen
#46. Come on, is your heart a sponge or a fist?
Tea Obreht
#47. Normal girls didn't want their boobs mauled either, and I wholly believed if they could've landed a fist like I could, they would have.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#48. The heart under your heart
is not the one you share
so readily so full of pleasantry
& tenderness
it is a single blackberry
at the heart of a bramble
or else some larger fruit
heavy the size of a fist
Craig Arnold
#49. My beloved son Thomas did caution, when first I set out to flow this tale upon the world, that although they may not be felt like a fist or a whip, words have a power that can nevertheless cower even the largest man to gibbering tears.
Andrea Levy
#50. You always look so damn happy to see me," he said, low. "And it's like a fist in my gut, every time. I wait for it not to happen, for you to get used to me, or maybe you're tired or you had a bad day, so you're in no mood to shine, but no. There's always that smile." - Ty, Chapter Twenty-One
Ann Aguirre
#51. Can't anyone ever start a fight without all the posturing and cheesy Bond-villain threats? It's not that hard. Here, let me demonstrate. And he smashed a fist into Colin's nose.
Julie Kagawa
#52. (The only time making a fist around the fork helps is when you want to stab someone because he's stealing your food. Now I know stabbing people is really rude, so I hold my fork in the grown-up way all the time, and I rely on discreet snarls to protect my dinner from predators.)
John Elder Robison
#53. It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything.
Laurel Lea
#54. There's the waiting for something you don't know is coming. You don't even know what it is exactly, but you're hoping for it. You're imagining and living your life for it. That's the kind of waiting that makes a fist in your heart.
Martine Murray
#55. So one Sunday night, as the church-bells chimed 24 times, we were not especially surprised when a fist hammered on our door. What was surprising, however, was the fact that the fist belonged to Pancho the Mayor. Beside him stood his assistant, Felipe Frog.
Victoria Twead
#56. It was a father, one hand resting teapot-style on his hip, and the other - what would be the spout - formed into a fist.
David Sedaris
#57. Her love for him closed within her like a fist. Nervous, bruised. She despised it. Wasn't it the love of a beaten animal, slinking back to its master? Yet here was the truth: she missed her father.
Marie Rutkoski
#58. If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?
Franz Kafka
#59. When I see Almunia's performances, I get angry and have to make a fist in my pocket
Jens Lehmann
#60. What happened to your face?' she asked.
'It fell on a fist.' He shrugged.
'That happens a lot?'
'Enough.
Melissa De La Cruz
#62. One word, two lips, three four five fingers form a fist.
One corner, two parents, three four five reasons to hide.
One child, two eyes, three four seventeen years of fear.
A broken broomstick, a pair of wile faces, angry whispers, locks on my door.
Tahereh Mafi
#63. Ahhhhhhhggg. Oh sweet Lord Jesus, my hand." He attempted to make a fist and winced. "I think Chuck Parson had a textbook strapped to his stomach."
"Those are called abs", I told him.
John Green
#64. And then he glanced at the ceiling and, making a fist with his right hand, he gasped, Damn you ... God! Damn you!
Anne Rice
#65. I ball my hand into a fist, swing back, and let my knuckles crack against his jaw. "Motherfucker," he moans, pushing me away as blood rushes from his mouth. He
Frankie Love
#66. Have you ever seen a human heart? It looks like a fist, wrapped in blood! Go fuck yourself!
Patrick Marber
#67. The worm hissed. "You said it couldn't see!" shouted Oates, forgetting Umber's instruction to be silent. He shook a fist. "We all heard it, Umber! You specifically said, it couldn't see!"
"I know-isn't it wonderful to learn something new?" Umber laughed.
P.W. Catanese
#68. I'm glad I was raised by my dad for other reasons, too. There are things you can learn from a father, as a son, that you can never learn from Mom. Special things, important things. Like never challenge Dad to a fist fight.
Christopher Titus
#69. I can still make a fist, and breath still burns in my chest. So look at my face. Look at my mortal soul, and remember it. You did not crush me, and you will have the rest of eternity to think on it.
Susan Dennard
#70. The worst that could happen is you two get into a fist fight, in which I will referee but secretly be in your corner.
Oh really?
Really. I'll even rub Vaseline on your face when he isn't looking.
What would I do without you?
You'll never know.
Em Wolf
#71. Pyscho,' Flynt says, pounding a fist hard into his chair. 'Ouch
Kate Ellison
#72. The last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced,
and lest this be taken for wry sorrow,
drown the spider in wine.
you are much more than simply dead:
I am a dish for your ashes,
I am a fist for your vanished air.
the most terrible thing about life
is finding it gone.
Charles Bukowski
#73. Edward stretched out his arm, his hand curled into a fist. Seth grinned, revealing the long row of dagger teeth, and bumped his nose against Edward's hand.
"Nice teamwork," Edward murmured.
Stephenie Meyer
#74. And then there's The Enforcers - but they cost a lot and don't take well to supervision. It is rumored that, under their uniforms, they wear T-shirts bearing the unofficial Enforcer coat of arms: a fist holding a nightstick, emblazoned with the words SUE ME.
Neal Stephenson
#75. He let the fingers of one hand splay out across the pocket of his shirt to show what a simple, physical thing the heart was; then he made the same hand into a fist.
Richard Yates
#76. A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.
Mike Krzyzewski
#77. He struggled wildly and got one hand free just as a fist looped down into his face like a runaway moon.
Stephen King
#78. Onstage I've been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist.
Iggy Pop
#79. I barely know the guy, yet somehow I can feel that familiar clench of a fist gripping at my heart. I have to see him one more time, even if it's just to say good-bye.
Colleen Hoover
#80. Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.
Nancy Gibbs
#82. Oh no you don't. We made our bed, now we have to lie in it. We're warriors, and we ain't scared of nobody!" She claimed, holding out a fist. "We're warriors Anna. Mean, hardcore, we take no prisoners, warriors. I laugh in the face of the fools that would dare confront us today.
Sarah Tork
#83. Baby, I'm the oldest of three boys. I can handle a fist to the face, an elbow to the ribs, even a flying tackle. But a woman's tears? They scare me, straight to the bone.
Samanthe Beck
#84. Remembering this, he feels the old, hot prickle in his eyes. He thinks, Yes. But it vanishes. His angry heart calls for his attention, a fist on the door of his ribcage, beating.
Lauren Groff
#85. I prepared for my meal in the usual fashion: fork in my left hand; my dominant right clenched into a fist on my lap, ready to punch anyone who dared take away my food.
Gary Shteyngart
#86. I love you, Holder!" I yell after him. "Best friends forever!" He keeps walking forward, but lifts his hand in the air and flips me off. It's almost as cool as a fist bump.
Colleen Hoover
#87. Hand any four-year-old a fist full of crayons, and it is a very, very few who don't get busy with them, drawing, coloring, scribbling. I have not stopped scribbling.
Chris Raschka
#88. As a professional athlete, I can tell you I feel every single emotion and not one of them ever helped me in a fist-fight before. And not one of them has ever hurt me in a fist-fight, either. The only thing that has helped me is my skills and the only thing that hurt me is my opponent's skills.
Chael Sonnen
#89. The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.
Karen White
#90. 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.
Iyanla Vanzant
#91. Wolgast leaned back in his chair and realized how exhausted he was. It always came upon him like this, like the sudden unclenching of a fist.
Justin Cronin
#92. He listened to his words fall as if from the mouth of another, and watched his father's face, which received those words as a stone receives the repeated blows of a fist.
John Edward Williams
#93. What killed people wasn't a bullet, a blade, a fist to the face. What killed people was a feeling. Left too long. Sometimes in the cold, frozen. Sometimes buried and fetid. And sometimes on the shores of a lake, isolated. Left to grow old, and odd.
Louise Penny
#94. She knows the truth can cause a sharp pain behind your eyes and that love sometimes feels like a fist around your throat.
Jodi Picoult
#95. I can't seem to keep my heart from leaking out of the cracks, like sand clutched in a fist.
Kiersten White
#96. motherfucker," I shouted at the top of my lungs, waving a fist and slapping it against the water while I treaded water. "You knew this was going to happen! You fucking knew it!
Jesse Bastide
#97. But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it's frozen shut.
Gayle Forman
#98. Tucker, I want to tell you a secret." She curled my hand into a fist and showed it to me. "Life is a battle, but you can't fight it with your fists." She gently tapped me on the chin with my fist and then put her hand on my chest, " You got to figt it with your heart.
Charles Martin
#99. No matter what happens, you can make it. Like a fist tightened as hard as possible, you can always apply more.
Ace Antonio Hall
#100. I had waited for the tears to stop before I called him, waited until my whole body was empty and dry, hard as a fist. But now I felt the sadness rising again in my chest.
Aryn Kyle
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