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Letter "F" » FISTED
«Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand.»
Author: Anthony Powell
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority... it is the one guaranty of human freedom to the American people.»
Author: Frank I. Cobb
| Keywords:
American people, Bill of Rights, clause, constituted, fist, FISTED, fists, guaranty, rebel, reeking, reeks, sedition, shakes, The Bill
«No man thinks clearly when his fists are clenched»
Author: George Jean Nathan
(Critic, Editor, Essayist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
clearly, clench, clenched, clenched fist, clenching, FISTED, fists
«Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Tyranny
| Keywords:
club, disguised, fist, FISTED, fists, flocks, market, researcher, researchers, shepherds, tyrant, utilities, utility
«the fact that nobody liked me at school began to fade out of my mind like blue magic marker reminders scrawled on the back of a greasy fist.»
«Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.»
«The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.»
«I believe in using words, not fists... I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.»
«My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.»
Author: Bette Davis
| About:
Passion
| Keywords:
aggression, aggressions, considered, fingers, fist, FISTED, fists, gathered
«Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and four times he who gets his fist in fust»
Author: Josh Billings
(Humorist)
| Keywords:
armed, fist, FISTED, fists, four times, He Who Gets, quarrel, thrice
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