A Quote by Jhumpa Lahiri

One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a fist.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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Fist Five Hand Homes Lifetime

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Jhumpa Lahiri
American - Author
Born: July 11, 1967

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

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

The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.

James Cash Penney

The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist -- McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.

Thomas Friedman

Peabody, you never cease to amaze me." "One day I'll tell you about my granny and her five lovers." "Five lovers isn't abnormal for a woman's lifetime." "Not in her lifetime; last month. All at the same time." Peabody glanced up, deadpan. "She's ninety-eight. I hope to take after her.

Nora Roberts

Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.

Elie Wiesel

A team is a fist-not five fingers.

Mike Krzyzewski

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

Five Great Charters knit the land Together linked, hand in hand One in the people who wear the crown Two in the folk who keep the Dead down Three and Five became stone and mortar Four sees all in frozen water.

Garth Nix

A hand fought best when it made a fist.

Guy Gavriel Kay

...I remain restless and dissatisfied; what I knot with my right hand, I undo with my left, what my left hand creates, my right fist shatters

Gunter Grass

We'll hold out our hand; they have to unclench their fist.

Hillary Clinton

We will outstretch the hand if you unclench your fist.

Barack Obama

I doubt very much that the chief executives of any of the Fortune 500 corporations can name five edible plants, five native grasses, or five migratory birds within walking distance of their homes, or name the soil series upon which their house sits. And I would contend that if you don't know where you are, you are in fact nowhere at all.