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
Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity. — Emile M. Cioran 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
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
Why on earth should we be at each other's throats? Why do people insist on defending their ideas and opinions with such… — J. G. Farrell Copy Share Image
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“The rabid ferocity of his reaction had confirmed Mother’s warnings, but I didn’t yet comprehend the depth of the revulsion that I… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbedlightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expressioncould easily… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When a man says money can do anything that settles it: he hasn't got any. When a man wants to murder a… — George Bernard Shaw 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
[It is nice] to explore someone's will to survive, the ferocity of loyalty, how far you would go to protect the ones… — Katie Aselton Copy Share Image
How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The Romans did not see [the tale of Romulus, Remus and the she-wolf] as a charming story; they meant to show that… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Negativism to the pain and ferocity of life is… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The future of the world depends on the full restoration of the Sacred Feminine in all its tenderness, passion, divine ferocity, and… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
“Military ferocity is not a fixed quality of any race or culture, but a temporary condition that usually bears the seeds of… — Lawrence H. Keeley Copy Share Image