Fierce Quotes
519 quotes by 436 authors
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The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed... The heart's fierce effort to protect itself from every slight, to shield its touchy honor from…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Fierce Determination and Gentle Humility are the ornaments which make one attractive in the eyes of the Lord.
— Radhanath Swami
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The love, support, and respect the members of the theater community have for one another is unparalleled. Say what you want about us wacky drama-types,…
— Monica Raymund
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People have really taken Mrs. Brown to their hearts. I think she reminds them of their own mammies... Fierce and scary but full of love.
— Brendan O'Carroll
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The fear of this delicate and fierce feminine has more to do with our fear of being vulnerable again, getting hurt again, than it does…
— Alanis Morissette
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The Islamic terror threat is so fierce, unrelenting and barbaric that we tell ourselves fairy tales about how these ruthless acts are anything but what…
— Monica Crowley
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A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.
— Susan Cheever
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June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once…
— Alice Walker
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The holy angels live and qualify in the light, in the good quality wherein the Holy Ghost reigneth. The devils live and reign in the…
— Jakob Bohme
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In every advanced mammalian species that survives and thrives, a common anthropological characteristic is the fierce behavior of the adult female of the species when…
— Marianne Williamson
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Polygraphs have sparked a fierce debate for at least a century.
— Bill Dedman
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My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination,…
— Jill Lepore
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The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was…
— Andrew Ross Sorkin
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I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential in a book…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Years ago, I tore out a Nike ad featuring Allyson Felix and Maria Sharapova looking super fierce and tough. I always told my family that…
— Ashley Wagner
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There was a beautiful church where I lived in Navan, taught by the Christian brothers: fierce, angry men, repressed.
— Pierce Brosnan
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M dad was a boxer, so he had this fierce, physical presence.
— Anthony Browne
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It would be amazing to play Sylvia Plath. She was so dark, and what came out of her writing was troubled and fierce. The dimensions,…
— Evangeline Lilly
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The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.
— Amy Bloom
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On April 3, 2014, Jane Goodall turned 80. The iconic blond ponytail has gone gray, but the sparkle of intelligence, sly humor, and fierce dedication…
— David Quammen
Who Wrote These Fierce Quotes
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