Fierce Quotes
519 quotes by 436 authors
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The fierce words of Jesus addressed to the Pharisees of His day stretch across the bands of time. Today they are directed not only to…
— Brennan Manning
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When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an' you're strong. Can't nobody beat a hunter. But when you get hunted - that's different. Somepin happens…
— John Steinbeck
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I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like…
— Rumi
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No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
— William Shakespeare
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Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes. . . . Competition for the best…
— Aaron Sorkin
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I saw finally the futility of all these gestures, that witchcraft is but a matter of focus-that one cann apply one's fierce and immeasurable energies…
— Anne Rice
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The wind sounds like a silver wire, And from beyond the noon a fire Is pour'd upon the hills, and nigher The skies stoop down…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache!
— Alexandre Dumas
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Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the…
— Dorothy Allison
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She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you…
— Jodi Picoult
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You're new here, aren't you?" Rolan asked. "Rose is visiting. She's a friend of the family." Viktoria said. "Ah," he said. "Now I remember hearing…
— Richelle Mead
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And now you're off to Port Caynn. Watch them sailor lads. They'll have your skirts up and a babe in your belly afore you know…
— Tamora Pierce
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He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it…
— Jack London
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But the trouble with sainthood these days is the robe-and-halo imagery that gets stuck onto it." Carl got that brooding look again. "People forget that…
— Diane Duane
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Everyone has an angel, a guardian who watches over us. We can't know what form they'll take. One day old man, next day little girl.…
— Zack Snyder
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But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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I want to hear raucous music, to see faces, to brush against bodies, to drink fiery Benedictine. Beautiful women and handsome men arouse fierce desires…
— Anais Nin
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Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we…
— C.S. Lewis
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It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.
— Karen Russell
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