A Quote by Indira Gandhi

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Indira Gandhi

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Peace Cannot Fist Hands Shake

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Indira Gandhi
Indian - Statesman
November 19, 1917 - October 31, 1984

India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Indira Gandhi

When you are in a state of nonacceptance, it's difficult to learn. A clenched fist cannot receive a gift, and a clenched psyche grasped tightly against the reality of what must not be accepted cannot easily receive a lesson.

Roger Delano Hinkins

In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.

Victor Hugo

People with clenched fists can not shake hands.

Indira Gandhi

Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched, their teeth are clenched, their eyes fast shut. First they will not, in the end they cannot, open their hands for gifts, or their mouth for food, or their eyes to see.

C. S. Lewis

You can't shake hands with a closed fist.

Mahatma Gandhi

One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.

David Allan Coe

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

I always held my flower in a clenched fist.

Eric Hoffer

Sin is a clenched fist and a blow in the face of God.

Joseph Parker

I shake everybody's hand before the game, but Oklahoma City, they don't shake hands. Only some of them, but I don't think they really shake hands before the game.

Metta World Peace

There is more power in the open hand than in the clenched fist.

Herbert Newton Casson

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.

Alistair Begg

When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say the whole world is mine. But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned his lesson." "What lesson?" I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. "We can take nothing with us.