A Quote by Victor Hugo

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

Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo
French - Novelist
February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Indira Gandhi

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

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

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.

Mitch Albom

Many of us come into the world with a clenched fist, but we all leave with an open hand.

Sixto Rodriguez

But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it's frozen shut.

Gayle Forman

Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.

Alice Duer Miller

There is nowhere to go. What you are looking for is right here. Open the fist clenched in wanting and see what you already hold in your hand

Oriah Dreamer

We all need to demand the happiness for ourselves we desire. Fight for it. Wrestle it out of the clenched fist of the world you live in

Jewel

The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble assistance.

Mike Huckabee

The single clenched fist lifted and ready, Or the open asking hand held out and waiting. Choose: For we meet by one or the other.

Carl Sandburg

To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance.

Pat Conroy

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