Fierce Quotes

519 quotes by 436 authors

Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there, Nor would I… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. — William Congreve
The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought… — Davy Crockett
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed. — Clarence Darrow
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races… — Charles Darwin
Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and… — Jim DeMint
Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely. — Theodore Dreiser
It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage. — Isadora Duncan
I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is. — Paul Harvey
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no… — Arthur Helps
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. — Victor Hugo
Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I… — Muhammad Iqbal
The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to… — George Jackson
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the… — William James
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his… — John Keats
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much. — Walter Savage Landor
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. — Walter Savage Landor
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering.… — Bruce Lee
Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome. — Oscar Levant
I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of.… — Daniel Day-Lewis

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