Fierce Quotes
519 quotes by 433 authors
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O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O…
— William Blake
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And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject…
— William Bradford
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Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce…
— Eugene Kennedy
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I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce.…
— Dick Butkus
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I think Jim Taylor was very underrated, never hear much about him. We played Green Bay every year in exhibition, and generally we played them…
— Bob Lilly
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Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.
— Magic Johnson
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Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict.
— Kofi Annan
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Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.
— Albert Einstein
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There's always been a fierce rivalry between Spurs and Tottenham.
— David Pleat
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Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of the great evils…
— Howard Zinn
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Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce…
— Mark Doty
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Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist,…
— John Milton
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with…
— Adrienne Rich
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Nothing like this has been attempted before. (...) It might be called a literary Porto Alegre. That implies a beginning, with much fierce argument and…
— Perry Anderson
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I looked around one stage school when I was maybe nine. It just scared the bejesus out of me. I was incredibly open, and the…
— Emilia Clarke
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I have three sons, and I think were both fierce protectors of our children.
— Jami Gertz
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In this time when a citizenry applauds the liberation of a country as it lives in fear of its own freedomwhen people all over the…
— Tim Robbins
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Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I cannot hear a sound. Pain…
— Norman Mailer
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It's easy to pretend 'to be fierce and fearless because living your truth takes real courage. Real fearless and fierce women admit mistakes and they…
— Gabrielle Union
Who Wrote These Fierce Quotes
433 authors contributed a total of 519 Fierce Quotes, led by these top contributors: