Fierce Quotes

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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
The fourth angel poured his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire; they were scorched by the fierce heat,… — John the Apostle
Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death. — Horace
Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the… — Michel de Montaigne
Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires… — William Shakespeare
Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause. — Walter Scott
Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind. — Alexander Pope
Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves,… — Alexander Pope
In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Thirst of wealth no quiet knows, But near the death-bed fierce grows. — Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public… — William Davenant
I know that I could really kill for my daughter. I know because I'm living for her, so I'm fierce when it comes down to… — Whitney Houston
Our planet... consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb... Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in… — James Lovelock
My picture, Fifth Avenue, Winter is the result of a three hours' stand during a fierce snow-storm on February 22nd 1893, awaiting the proper moment.… — Alfred Stieglitz
When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean And billows wild contend with angry roar, 'Tis said, far down beneath the wild commotion That peaceful… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him,… — Richard Savage
The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman. The… — Theodore Roosevelt
When a tree has been transplanted, though fierce winds may blow, it will not topple if it has a firm stake to hold it up.… — Nichiren
India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart. — Simon Beaufoy
However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I donâ€™t mean fight with the power of our… — Cressida Cowell

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