Ferocious Quotes
101 quotes by 91 authors
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The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de la Chanvrerie…
— Victor Hugo
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In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some will topple, knocking…
— Alan Weisman
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Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.
— Anita Shreve
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There is this ferocious digital revolution coming along and we're in the teeth of that at the time of maximum economic disruption. There are huge…
— Alan Rusbridger
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Somehow she knew he would take a love affair very seriously indeed. Once that pinpoint focus was engaged, he would throw himself body and soul…
— Elizabeth Hoyt
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My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious.
— Mike Tyson
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The Battle for the Philippines was the greatest naval battle in history, judged in terms of the number of ships taking part, the number of…
— Richard Hough
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Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and…
— James A. Baldwin
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To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still…
— Learned Hand
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The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.
— Victor Hugo
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There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability…
— Victor Hugo
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The warfare between the unaroused male and female is constant and ferocious. Each blames the other for his loss of soul.
— John Steinbeck
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In terms of style I typically veer toward a certain masculinity. My style inspirations range from images of my father in his 1970s suits, to…
— Rachael Taylor
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It's every man for himself, every woman, every child. A new breed ferocious and wild.
— Tina Turner
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The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that…
— Eric Hoffer
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Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither…
— Victor Hugo
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The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at…
— J. B. Priestley
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Everyone has a right to an opinion. I can arrive in England and express my opinion. If criticism were ferocious and without intellectual objectivity they…
— Jose Mourinho
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We're supposed to procreate and society, god knows, is ferocious on the subject. Heterosexuality is considered such a great and natural good that you have…
— Gore Vidal
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