2009, First Inaugural Address (January 2009)
Source: Roots : The Saga of an American Family (1976), Ch. 51.
“I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.”
Source: The Price of Salt
“You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.”
Attributed
Variant: You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
“You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.”
Attributed
“In a world that lives like a fist
mercy is not more than waking
with your hands open.”
“We hold each other’s lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.”
Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book II: The Black Cauldron (1965), Chapter 2
“You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread.”
Man schlägt jemanden mit der Faust und nicht mit gespreizten Fingern.
As quoted in Die Deutschen gepanzerten Truppen bis 1945 (1965) by Oskar Munzel, p. 209; this indicated the need to concentrate tank forces for one strong push in one direction and not distribute them over a large area.
