Best 176 quotes in «fierce quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nature formed me fierce.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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 lion is not so fierce as they paint him.

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.

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 roaring street is hung for miles With fierce electric fire.

There is no dignity in television.

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.

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

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.