102 Five Fingers Quotes

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Famous Five Fingers Quotes

Five fingers are brothers but are not equals. — Afghan Proverbs

Even the five fingers of the hand are not alike. — Afghan Proverbs

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

Fingers interlocked like a beautiful accordion of flesh or a zipper of prayer — Sarah Kay

On the other hand, you have different fingers. — Steven Wright

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

As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist. — Sitting Bull

Hands have their own language. — Simon Van Booy

Your toes are like ten small little Floridas just hanging off your body. — Theo Von

After shaking hands with a Greek, count your fingers. — Albanian Proverbs

The hand is the tool of tools. — Aristotle

I'd rather have a Pawn than a finger — Reuben Fine

When a Greek shakes your hand, count your fingers after. — Albanian Proverbs

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. — Louis Nizer

God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand? — Ninette de Valois

Short Five Fingers Quotes

  • The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. — Leonardo da Vinci
  • I was not born with enough middle fingers. — Wiz Khalifa
  • I'm missing a knuckle, it's crushed inside my hand at the moment. — Trish Stratus
  • The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball. — Paul Dickson
  • You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. — Indira Gandhi
  • People with clenched fists can not shake hands. — Indira Gandhi
  • What the hand does the mind remembers. — Maria Montessori
  • Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails. — Plato
  • My fingers always seem busier than my mind. — Alexander Calder
  • Give them a finger and they’ll take an arm. — Italian Proverbs

Five Fingers Image Quotes

Five fingers quote Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Five Senses Quotes

That is my best friend because it is a gift of the creator to Africans. It is a spirit. Marijuana has five fingers of creation...it enhances all your five senses. — Fela Kuti

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. — Edwin Powell Hubble

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert. — William Osler

Five fingers quote The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words "I did not have t
The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words "I did not have time".

If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses! — Helen Keller

If skills sold truth be told I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli Truthfully I want to rhyme like Common Sense (But I did five Mil) I ain't been rhyming like Common since. — Jay-Z

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. — Theodore Roosevelt

Five fingers quote Two percent of the people think, three percent of the people think they think, and ninety-five perce
Two percent of the people think, three percent of the people think they think, and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than Think.

I love Morocco - it's a real challenge to all five senses. You think you know something, and you don't. It's wonderful. It keeps you on your toes that way. — Amy Ryan

Don't ignore the five senses in search of a sixth. — Bruce Lee

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. — Hervey Allen

The five senses are the ministers of the soul. — Leonardo da Vinci

Fingers And Toes Quotes

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd. — Ida B. Wells

To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them. — Dennis Covington

I'm making good money but I ain't rich. Even if I don't wanna rap I still gotta work. Pride don't feed the babies. I'm going to do whatever it takes. As long as my fingers and toes move Im'ma get money. — Sean Price

Five fingers quote I didn’t give you the finger… you earned it.
I didn’t give you the finger… you earned it.

Women are like fingers and toes because they're easy to count on. — Bo Burnham

The fingers and toes and beating hearts that we can see on an unborn child's ultrasound come with something that we cannot see: a soul — George W. Bush

We were broke in a way that only kids can be broke. Our toes were black with dye from wearing boots that weren't waterproof. We had infected ear lobes and green rings around our fingers from cheap jewelry. No one ever even had a chocolate bar. — Heather O'Neill

Five fingers quote It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Nothing's impossible for Rickey. You don't have enough fingers and toes to count out Rickey. — Rickey Henderson

I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites. — Sydney Pollack

I am the first male member of my family for about three generations who can have reasonable confidence in expecting that I will leave this earth with more or less the same number of fingers, hands, legs, toes and eyes as I had when I was born. — Neil Kinnock

January brings the snow / Makes your feet and fingers glow / February's ice and sleet / Freeze the toes right off your feet / Welcome March with wintry wind / Would thou wer't not so unkind / April brings the sweet spring showers / On and on for hours and hours. — Michael Flanders

Five Friends Quotes

How could we have such a low view of the gospel of Jesus Christ that we have to manipulate men psychologically to get them to come down and pray a prayer? …How many times have I heard evangelists say, “It’ll only take five minutes.”? No my dear friend, it will take your life–all of it! — Paul Washer

It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason — W. C. Fields

A friend asked her doctor if a woman should have children after thirty-five. I said, "Thirty-five children is enough for any woman. — Gracie Allen

I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.' — Enrico Fermi

I know how guys talk, so I'm not easily offended. Guys can fight and be best friends five minutes later. Women have to air it out, hold on to it, work on it. — Kim Delaney

I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends. — Maureen Forrester

But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker. — Tim Ferriss

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends. — Chanakya

I knew of a man who was sent to the State Prison for twenty-five years. All these years he was always thinking of his home, and counting by years, months, and days, the time till he should be free, and see his family and friends once more. — Harriet Tubman

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. — Lee Iacocca

Five Minutes Quotes

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. — Winston Churchill

Most Christians would like to send their recruits to Bible college for five years. I would like to send them to hell for five minutes. That would do more than anything else to prepare them for a lifetime of compassionate ministry. — William Booth

My God, thank you. Thank you very much. I'm almost embarrassed by the response, but when I see this, I know that the twenty five years that I've spent trying to make you happy every night of your life was worth every damn minute of it. — Ric Flair

If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution. — Albert Einstein

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. — Mark Twain

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. — Chinese Proverbs

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. — Warren Buffett

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes. — Etty Hillesum

You live more in five minutes on a bike like this going flat out than some people live in a lifetime. — Burt Munro

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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More Five Fingers Quotes

Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean. — Jimi Hendrix

Before pointing fingers make sure your hands are clean. — Bob Marley

There are five fundamental qualities that make every team great: communication, trust, collective responsibility, caring and pride. I like to think of each as a separate finger on the fist. Any one individually is important. But all of them together are unbeatable — Mike Krzyzewski

If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread. — Adrienne Rich

So many vaginas, stomachs, cocks, snouts, and flies you don't know what to do with them ... shovelsfull! ... but hearts? ... very rare! in the last five hundred million years too many cocks and gastric tubes to count ... but hearts? ... on your fingers!. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

I would be curious about one of those Jane Austen women - you know - long-suffering, dutiful - but all right in the end - a plump 19th century type, five foot four, ringlets, brown eyes, long fingers. — Peter Greenaway

You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a fist), it's damn near impossible to turn this around. — Ray Lewis

Everybody needs some real rock in their lives...whether it's bands like ourselves, Aerosmith or Stones...or new bands like Five Finger Death Punch, Avenged Sevenfold...it's out there. — Nikki Sixx

When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent. — George Eliot

When it comes down to it, I'm just a girl who wears those five-finger weird toe shoes. — Shailene Woodley

I frankly felt like the reception we received on the way in from the airport was very warm and hospitable. And I want to thank the Canadian people who came out to wave -- with all five fingers -- for their hospitality. — George W. Bush

Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A team is a fist-not five fingers. — Mike Krzyzewski

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7. — Les Paul

I used to write random little stupid things when I was five, but then the first song I really wrote was one called 'Fingers Crossed,' which is on SoundCloud. — Billie Eilish

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God. — Voltaire

Entrance into the Old Ways begins with the pricking of a finger with a rose thorn, which produces a drop of blood. This opens the way into the Thorned Path, a system, which uses five rose thorns to symbolize the five arts of Witchcraft that one should master. These arts are Herbalist, Fortune-Teller, Spirit Medium, Mystic, and Magician. We call mastering these aspects 'the gathered thorns' --thus the Thorned Path. — Raven Grimassi

I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled. — Bryan Adams

... a gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or jailbirds. They're spidery and frail, their hair as fine as mist. Most of them are a good decade younger than me, and this astounds me. Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.--There are five of them now, white headed old things huddled together and pointing crooked fingers at the glass. — Sara Gruen

The sun is perfect and you woke this morning. You have enough language in your mouth to be understood. You have a name, and someone wants to call it. Five fingers on your hand and someone wants to hold it. If we just start there, every beautiful thing that has and will ever exist is possible. If we start there, everything, for a moment, is right in the world. — Warsan Shire

After an awkward pause, Bast extended his hand. Chronicler hesitated for a bare moment before reaching out quickly, as if he were sticking his hand into a fire. Nothing happened, both of them seemed moderately surprised. "Amazing, isn't it?" Kvothe addressed them bitingly. "Five fingers and flesh with blood beneath. One could almost believe that on the other end of that hand lay a person of some sort. — Patrick Rothfuss

[Prince Humperdinck] was seventy-five minutes away from his first female murder, and he wondered if he could get his fingers to her throat before even the start of a scream. He had been practicing on giant sausages all the afternoon and had the movements down pretty pat, but then, giant sausages weren’t necks and all the wishing in the world wouldn’t make them so. — William Goldman

He kissed each finger, and with each one of them spoken a word. Five kisses, five words. His last. — Cassandra Clare

When Alani started to speak, Jackson held up a finger. In the past five minutes, he'd had more mood swings than a menopausal woman. First turned-on, then territorial, bored, aggressive and now on alert. — Lori Foster

But it's Posy, Gale's five-year-old sister, who helps the most. She scoots along the bench to Octavia and touches her skin with a tentative finger. “You're green. Are you sick?” “It's a fashion thing, Posy. Like wearing lipstick,” I say. “It's meant to be pretty,” whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her lashes. Posy considers this and says matter-of-factly, “I think you'd be pretty in any color. — Suzanne Collins

You have five minutes to call someone, anyone, I don't care who, and order me the finest blend of coffee that rat hole town has, and a dozen beers. If it's not sitting on this table..." a slender finger pointed furiously at the table in question,"... in one hour, you die" - Faith telling Jacob — Lora Leigh

Little brother, I don’t mean to be a downer, but we’re talking about War here. There’s no way to mitigate damages. He won’t let us. I was there with twenty-five Chthonians to fight him and he spanked our hides like we were Lemurian slave women. Two of us had our hearts ripped out and shoved down our throats while he laughed, then he licked the blood clean from his fingers and came at the rest of us. (Savitar) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Five hundred souls. I carried them in my fingers, like suitcases. Or I'd throw them over my shoulder. It was only the the children I carried in my arms. — Markus Zusak

Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad. — Rick Riordan

My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered. — Jodi Picoult

I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we have five fingers rather than six.' --spoken by The Bluejay, aka Mo the Bookbinder, from 'Inkdeath — Cornelia Funke

five severed fingers do not make a hand — Daniel Quinn

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