Best 176 quotes in «fierce quotes» category

My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it

My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.

My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.

My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.

Nature formed me fierce.

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

No one is going to feel sorry for you, so you have to go out there and be fierce.

Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

Of Planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness.

One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman.

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.

Putting on fierce boots is an instant pick-me-up.

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.

She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.

The anti-suffragist talk of sheltering women from the fierce storms of life is a lot of cant. I have no patience with it. These storms beat on woman just as fiercely as they do on man, and she is not trained to defend herself against them.

Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger.

That was the Liam Stewart way of saying, Hi, darlin', missed you something fierce.

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

That [Pagani] Zonda, really! It’s like a lion in orange dungarees. Kind of fierce, but ridiculous all at the same time.

The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction and swarms of tsetse flies.

The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else.

The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these rude and fierce manners.

The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing.

The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.

The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.

Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

There is no dignity in television.

The only good produced by the disappearance of Africville was the appearance of a conscious black nationalism … In this regard, Consecrated Ground is the heir of fierce, vengeful, and epic activism.

The roaring street is hung for miles With fierce electric fire.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

There's always been a fierce rivalry between Spurs and Tottenham.

There were schools and hospitals who were ready to take people with undescribed injuries, but not necessarily ready to take people with severe radiation poisoning.

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked

The strongest streak in the American character is a fierce pragmatism that mistrust blind ideology of every stripe and insists on finding what really works.

The talk of sheltering woman from the fierce storms of life is the sheerest mockery, for they beat on her from every point of thecompass, just as they do on man, and with more fatal results, for he has been trained to protect himself, to resist, to conquer.

Thirst of wealth no quiet knows, But near the death-bed fierce grows.

This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents.

Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight.

This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.

To be a navigator, you have to be fierce.

This is the point in the show where we say, 'Oh, what else do we have in the van that's flammable?'

Today's gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans' pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious.