Ferocity Quotes

48 quotes by 43 authors

We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds.… — Fulton J. Sheen
Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a… — Bharati Mukherjee
An inability to communicate has little to do with international friction-as is seen in the special ferocity of wars fought between people who speak the… — Peter Farb
When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very bowels will heave… — M.F.K. Fisher
All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species. — John W. Gardner
The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with… — Havelock Ellis
Here's the problem: I don't like who I've become when my iPhone is within reach. I find myself checking e-mails and responding to texts throughout… — Josh Radnor
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. — Bertrand Russell
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. — George Bernard Shaw
My idea is this, that when you only love a little youâ€™re naturally not jealous-or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesnâ€™t… — Henry James
Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of… — Lord Byron
... one of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner tissues of the… — Dean Koontz
...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent. — Markus Zusak
He wanted to impart some of the truths Bruce Denton had taught him, that you dont' become a runner by winning a morning workout. The… — John L. Parker Jr.
Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom… — Ambrose Bierce
The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs;… — C.S. Lewis
He is the playfulness of creation, scandal and utter goodness, the generosity of the ocean and the ferocity of a thunderstorm; he is cunning as… — John Eldredge
Kate seemed to have doubled in size. She had drawn back her broad shoulders and set her jaw, and something in the stance called to… — Trenton Lee Stewart
The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory," and then he broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent like a clap… — John Green
At once, itâ€™s clear I cannot gush. We try me playing cocky, but I just donâ€™t have the arrogance. Apparently, Iâ€™m too â€œvulnerableâ€ for ferocity.… — Suzanne Collins

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