Fierce Quotes
519 quotes by 436 authors
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Zizi was young and often confused about how to live his life, �and when he made a choice he clung to it with fierce resolve,…
— Candace Bushnell
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They wanted the real mother, the blood mother, the great womb, mother of fierce compassion, a woman large enough to hold all the pain, to…
— Janet Fitch
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These Indians are fierce, they wear feathers and grunt. Most of us dont fit this idealized figure since we grunt only when overeating
— Vine Deloria, Jr.
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Katie had a fierce desire for survival which made her a fighter. Johnny had a hankering after immortality which made him a useless dreamer. And…
— Betty Smith
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All lovers in the world are alike: they fall in love by chance; they see each other, and are attached to each other by the…
— Henri Barbusse
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As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his lifelong enemy and, raising his eyes…
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active,…
— H.G. Wells
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Devil, do you dare approach me? and do you not fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head?
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Beneath the skin, there is fear. Pain. Remorse. Yearning. Desire. A fierce longing for power. All of this. We are joined. It is as if…
— Libba Bray
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Death is not a reaper, like they say, nor even a friend. It is a dark, fierce water, an inundation.
— Siobhan Dowd
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Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce heart. The black…
— Amy Tan
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...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.
— Irving Stone
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He could feel V's eyes sharpen, the vampire's fierce intellect churning over the situation. Among the brothers, Vishous had the most raw brainpower, but he…
— J R Ward
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The trees have inquisitive eyes, haven't they? -that is, seem as if they had. And the river says,-'Why do ye trouble me with your looks?'…
— Thomas Hardy
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The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on…
— Virginia Woolf
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I like the Cyclostyle ink; it is so inky. I do not think there is anyone who takes quite such a fierce pleasure in things…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my…
— Jeanette Winterson
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It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a vastly complex web…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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For my omniscience paid I toll In infinite remorse of soul. All sin was of my sinning, all Atoning mine, and mine the gall Of…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a…
— Christopher Hitchens
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