“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”
“You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.”
“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.”
“But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it's frozen shut.”
“The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble assistance.”