Fist Quotes

“A queen
offers her hand to be kissed,
& can form it into a fist
while smiling the whole damn time.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“I feel an army in my fist.”
― Friedrich von Schiller, Die Räuber

“Truth, meanwhile, was a weapon
that even a damaged fist could still grasp and wield. It was a remarkably versatile commodity; it could be traded, or help serve an end, or produce a
profit.”
― Mark Allen Smith, The Inquisitor

“Roof of your house is not your real roof; the walls of your house are not your real walls, your fists are not your real fists! Your real roof, your real wall, your real fist, your real shield is your right thinking! It is your right thinking that protects you from every danger!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Sometime, the only way you can make someone listen is with your fist. This is not a technique espoused, I know by the diagnostic manuals on most therapists' shelves.
Then again nobody ever said I was a therapist.”
― Meg Cabot, Shadowland

“He can hit a man in the liver so the blood flow stops. It takes a full second before the pain registers and the man falls. I've seen Billy hook men's livers and punch at their hearts. I've seen him break a man's nose in the ring, shatter an eardrum, close an eye. I've seen him hit a man so hard, fist to jaw, the man seemed to fall asleep before he fell, his body so relaxed his face looked calm even when his head slammed against canvas.”
― Adam Berlin, Both Members of the Club: A Novella

“Love fights with a kiss; hate fights with a fist.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“How ill-inspired we are when
Life, brawling in its crude matter-of-fact way
Decks us with the cold fist of reality”
― Laurence Overmire, Gone Hollywood

“Again with that slow, lordly smile. Perfectly shaped for Luc's fist.”
― Page Morgan, The Lovely and the Lost

“Women are heavyweight boxers; only, they punch with words, not fists.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Shit,” I yell at the stars, and shake my fist at… the moon, I guess, for lack of a better target.”
― Greg Howard

“He feared no challenger face-to-face, but war was deception, as Khevat had taught him, and not all men fought their enemies with spear and fist.”
― Peter V. Brett, The Desert Spear

“Mtu akikupiga ngumi utaumia. Akikutukana utaumia. Akikunyima Neno la Mungu utaumia pia.”
― Enock Maregesi