Best 176 quotes in «fierce quotes» category

All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.

All lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back and forth behind our days, but those tales grow too and shake us just as fierce.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering.

Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!

And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.

Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.

Before my diagnosis [cancer] I was a competitor but not a fierce competitor. When I was diagnosed, that turned me into a fighter.

As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.

Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.

Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I cannot hear a sound. Pain is near that will be like no pain felt before.

Dave hung up. And unplugged the phone. With a fierce and bitter pain he stared at it, watching how, over and over again, it didn't ring.

Death is not a reaper, like they say, nor even a friend. It is a dark, fierce water, an inundation.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.

Goodness knows she is too fierce for you Goodness knows she has eyes for a lord Goodness knows she yet will prove untrue Her cheek's blush is as false as her word

Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.

Hi, Mom. (Devyn) It’s the other parental unit. Not as pretty or as fierce as your mother, but loving nonetheless. (Syn)

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.

I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is.

I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.

I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.

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

I became a fierce advocate for gentle birth as a solution for the most pressing problems of our times - a solution that begins at the source.

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 a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?

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

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 have a fierce desire to paint colour.

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

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

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

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

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'm fiercely proud to be Scottish.

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 reject your reality and substitute my own.

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.

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

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

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