Best 176 quotes in «fierce quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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 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 lion is not so fierce as they paint him.

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.

There is no dignity in television.

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

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

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

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 always been a fierce rivalry between Spurs and Tottenham.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

To be a navigator, you have to be fierce.

Trust me no tortures which the poets feign Can match the fierce unutterable pain He feels, who night and day devoid of rest Carries his own accuser in his breast.

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

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

True warriors are fierce because their training is fierce.

Vane passed the mashed potatoes across Bride to Fury, who stared at them with a fierce frown "What are these?" he asked. "Potatoes," Vane told him. "What did they do to them?

Unexpectedly, a fierce sense of protectiveness comes over me. Except I fight it back because I can hardly look after myself these days.

War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

We Scots have a fierce pride in the things we do that others can never appreciate. I am the British No. 1, but I would prefer to be the British No. 1 from Scotland every time.

We live in a time today where we face fierce global competition.

Well, it so happens that I have had a spinal curvature since I was about thirteen and every once in a while that has given me some trouble, and at that time it began to kick up again. and occasionally I have to get into bed and nurse a severe backache.

When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an' you're strong. Can't nobody beat a hunter. But when you get hunted - that's different. Somepin happens to you. You ain't strong: maybe you're fierce, but you ain't strong." - Muley

What I have in me... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is. It's a drive [for success], but it's not a drive...it's being driven, it's something I have no control over. It's something pushing me, I'm not pushing myself.