Best 176 quotes in «fierce quotes» category

If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,And speed glum heroes up the line of death.

If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.

I grew up in a family of predominantly female bread winners who are strong and are fierce and opinionated. There’s not enough women like that on the screen.

I just had one of those 'what the hell are we doing' moments.

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

I have a fierce desire to paint colour.

In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.

I know that I could really kill for my daughter. I know because I'm living for her, so I'm fierce when it comes down to it. And I feel the same about my husband and my family. I'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair.

I love Beyonce. She's so fierce. I also love Lily Allen, and she was an influence on my music.

I love boxing. There's something fierce about using your body's force that way.

I'm fiercely loyal to my friends, and I really cherish my friendships.

In early psychoanalytic thought, narcissism was - and still, of course, is - self-love. The early psychoanalysts used to talk of libido directed at the self. That now feels a little quaint, that kind of language. But it does include the most fierce and self-displaying form of one's individual self. And in this way, it can be dangerous. When you look at Donald Trump, you can really see someone who's destructive to any form of life enhancement in virtually every area. And if that's what Fromm means by malignant narcissism, then it definitely applies.

I'm fiercely proud to be Scottish.

In my opinion, there are no rules! If you want to rock a trend, I say go for it, and just know that you are fierce enough to pull it off! Still, I totally understand that sometimes, it can take some time to get used to seeing yourself with different makeup than you usually wear.

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

I suppose being fierce is a very good thing, and a very cool thing. But more than fierce, I think I'm a strong person and a strong individual. And that's what I take with me every day.

It was a pretty fierce rivalry. I'm just speaking for myself, but I think it was general through the clubs. We didn't like them, and they didn't like us.

I think I became funny because I grew up in the Bronx. I was small and weak and Jewish instead of large and fierce and Puerto Rican. You need something.

It always surprised Valkyrie whenever she realized just how close the weird and the wonderful, and the fierce and the frightening, lived to the rest pf the non-magical, mortal world.

I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.

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

I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

Loud, stupid and overeating will suffice as long as we also have the funny, the fierce and the intellectual

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

I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.

Let’s be gentle with ourselves and each other and fierce as we fight oppression.

My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.

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

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

Nature formed me fierce.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.