“War was to be entered upon with sadness, with regret, but also with ferocity.” — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
The ferocity of passion that is engendered by people when they don't like what you've done is really tremendous. It's intense. — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity. — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
A person is great, not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“...writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing the truth ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I am trying so very hard to stay in the moment despite the ferocity of my ambition. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Every impediment only served to make the inferno within them burn with greater ferocity.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“You want something real bad? Go after it with ferocity like if your life depended on it and never ever surrender. Only… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
Maggie Nelson cuts through our culture's prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I do not dream of a gentle revolution. My passion runs to the violence of supersession, the ferocity of a life that… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
I wish [my wife] would [work] because - especially now the kind of - I mean, honesty is hardly the word. She… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
An inability to communicate has little to do with international friction-as is seen in the special ferocity of wars fought between people… — Peter Farb Copy Share Image
The term of life of a dynasty does not normally exceed three generations. For in the first generation are still preserved the… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
With ferocity and extraordinary craft, Lizzie Harris has made a book of poems that resonates far beyond the personal stories it tells.… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
From the apparent usefulness of the social virtues, it has readily been inferred by sceptics, both ancient and modern, that all moral… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The strong equilibrium point f just described is one of "unrelenting ferocity" against offenders. It exhibits a zeal for meting out justice… — Robert Aumann Copy Share Image
In the desert, the two primary elements are stone and water. Stone comes in abundance, exposed by weathering and a lack of… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character - her characters are vigorous and elementary; not for comedy - hers… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures,… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
My idea is this, that when you only love a little you're naturally not jealous — or are only jealous also a… — Henry James Copy Share Image
We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
There's a theory that snoring at night in sleep is a subconscious defence reflex-a warning sound that frightened potential predators away from… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking to humanity,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Sometimes we ask ourselves 'Why?' Why do I continue to smile, to give, to live? Why do I continue to stand, despite… — Shane Smith Copy Share Image
“In this world unburdened by concepts, even ferocity was pure: the fish wriggling beneath the wave would soon be only a choice… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've had a chance to meet some of my civil rights heroes and, more recently, members of the young generation around [Barack]… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the… — Ouida Copy Share Image
“There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking to humanity,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Our most precious resource now is wonder. What we wonder ignites our imagination, unleashes our empathy, fuels our ferocity.” — Amy Irvine Copy Share Image
When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image