Fierce Quotes

519 quotes by 436 authors

War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was… — George W. Bush
Claim the events of your life! When you posses all you have been and done, you are fierce with reality. — Florida Scott-Maxwell
A fierce and monkish art; a castigation of the flesh. You must cut out your imagination and not fly an airplane but regulate a half-dozen… — Wolfgang Langewiesche
As a poet Maria Terrone lives, like the rest of us, in a world of questions marks-but what shines through them is the fierce light… — Eamon Grennan
My mom could be really fierce. A regular Frau Badass. — Kresley Cole
The pornographers did a kind of stealth attack on our culture, hijacking our sexuality and then selling it back to us, often in forms that… — Gail Dines
Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of… — Howard Zinn
The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution. — Bell Hooks
We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
There won't be any revolution in America ... the people are too clean. They spend all their time changing their shirts and washing themselves. You… — Eric Linklater
The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to… — Gretel Ehrlich
The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction… — Stephen Jay Gould
Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the… — Dogen
Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel… — Michael Ignatieff
There's such a fierce intense fire burning inside of me, so much that it just wants to explode. — GG Allin
As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but… — Muriel Rukeyser
Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog. — Robert Falcon Scott
My mother told me I said to her, at age three, 'I'm going to go to Italy and get my father in a tractor.' 'You've… — Roger Waters
Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart peers over conventional… — Peter Thiel
Soon will set in the fitful weather, with fierce gales and sullen skies and frosty air, and it will be time to tuck up safely… — Celia Thaxter

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