Fierce Quotes
519 quotes by 436 authors
-
I laughed. “You’re too young to be so … pessimistic,†I said, using the English word. “Pessi-what?†“Pessimistic. It means looking only at the dark…
— Haruki Murakami
-
The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awakens passion. May I say once more - this essential energy…
— Brennan Manning
-
We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since,…
— Aldo Leopold
-
I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This…
— Pat Conroy
-
More like some small, fierce bird of prey, something with a sharp bite. An owl perhaps, that speaks only when the rest of the world…
— Juliet Marillier
-
Loud, stupid and overeating will suffice as long as we also have the funny, the fierce and the intellectual
— Denis Leary
-
O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she…
— William Shakespeare
-
His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that every…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
-
His loyalty, so fierce and unwavering, makes my eyes water and heart ache.
— Emily Giffin
-
Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus,…
— John Milton
-
May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave.
— Kate Forsyth
-
Hi, Mom. (Devyn) It’s the other parental unit. Not as pretty or as fierce as your mother, but loving nonetheless. (Syn)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
-
Yeah, well, he’s still on Dark-Hunter payroll, so tell him to keep his phone turned on. (Talon) Ooo. Getting testy in your fierce nakedness. (Kyrian)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
-
To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who entered the meat…
— Eugene B. Sledge
-
No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
-
Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm and ardent love…
— Sigrid Undset
-
she kissed him with all the aching longing that being this close to him evoked; she kissed him in all the ways he had ever…
— Judith McNaught
-
Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.
— Ambrose Bierce
-
Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment for…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
-
Love with someone else, an actual person, was another matter. People got hurt doing that. People cried and wrapped their arms around themselves and rocked…
— Deb Caletti
Who Wrote These Fierce Quotes
436 authors contributed a total of 519 Fierce Quotes, led by these top contributors: