Fierce Quotes
519 quotes by 436 authors
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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
— Francis Bacon
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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
— Alain Badiou
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I love boxing. There's something fierce about using your body's force that way.
— Sophia Bush
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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
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I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
— Octavia Butler
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.
— Ty Cobb
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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
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Of Planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Who Wrote These Fierce Quotes
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