Ferocious Quotes

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Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most… — John Quincy Adams
Barack Obama is many things; among them, he is a tough and even ferocious political warrior. — Jon Meacham
It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious. — Henry David Thoreau
The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it. — Voltaire
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive… — Martin Amis
There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness,… — Salman Rushdie
The word "feral" has a kind of magic potency which allied itself to two other words, "ferocious" and "free." To revert to a feral state! — T.H. White
What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to… — William Styron
Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors — Alejandra Pizarnik
For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard. — Edgar Rice Burroughs
He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring,… — Jack London
I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed… — Anita Shreve
Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity,… — Paulo Coelho
The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do. — Angela Carter
He was so very large and so very gruff that he rather terrified her, but he always behaved correctly in public, and there was a… — Gail Carriger
We donâ€™t want civilians walking around who know about us. Got it? (Tee) Wow, youâ€™re like a ferocious bunny, arenâ€™t you? (Nathan) Worse. A bunny… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Tavi looked wildly around the courtyard, and when his gaze flicked toward them, his face lit witha ferocious smile. "Uncle Bernard! Uncle Bernard!" he shouted,… — Jim Butcher
My word, Severus, that I shall never reveal the best of you?â€™ Dumbledore sighed, looking down into Snapeâ€™s ferocious, anguished face. â€˜If you insist â€¦ — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie. — H.G. Wells

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