Fierce Quotes

519 quotes by 436 authors

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. — Francis Bacon
Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism. — Alain Badiou
We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more… — Emmanuelle Beart
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined… — Henry Ward Beecher
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious… — Felix Adler
People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available to them won't… — Katherine Boo
I love boxing. There's something fierce about using your body's force that way. — Sophia Bush
Brooke and I share some similarities. We're both passionate, fiercely loyal people. But she is far more outlandish than I'd ever be, particularly with her… — Sophia Bush
I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things. — Octavia Butler
I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains. — Lord Byron
The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily… — John C. Calhoun
I chose to be Mrs. Johnny Cash in my life. I decided I'd allow him to be Moses and I'd be Moses' brother Aaron, picking… — June Carter Cash
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made… — William Ellery Channing
White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political… — Lydia M. Child
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand. — Ty Cobb
The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed… — Hank Aaron
Of Planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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