Fierce Quotes

519 quotes by 436 authors

The lion is not so fierce as they paint him. — George Herbert
I wanted to play in New York when I was in my prime and I was young, fierce, lock-down [defender]. Madison Square Garden, that would… — Metta World Peace
What is it that would make a creature as fierce, majestic and powerful as a lion is, subject itself to the intimidation of a man… — Iyanla Vanzant
Strength of will - is essential to your survival and success. The competitor who won't go away, who won't stay down, has one of the… — Bill Walsh
It takes a fierce devotion to defend your artistic space, and eternal vigilance over it, because the needs of others will grow like vines in… — Judith Ortiz Cofer
Discipline is, in a manner, nothing else but the art of inspiring the soldiers with greater fear of their officers than of the enemy. This… — Claude Adrien Helvetius
The fierce pulsation of resurgent pride that disclaims servitude may one day cease to throb in the heart of Ireland - but the heart of… — Thomas MacDonagh
There are a few exceptions, however, to this rule that our projection of ourselves is lower than the facts of Nature, and the unicorn --… — Odell Shepard
Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably well,… — Raquel Cepeda
We live in a time today where we face fierce global competition. — Erskine Bowles
A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns frore, and cold… — John Milton
In practice, without appropriate government intervention, Smith's "invisible hand" dons brass knuckles and conducts gang warfare, creating fierce battles between competitors who would be more… — Denise Caruso
This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of… — Allen Weinstein
Adrienne Mayor's inquiry into the myth--and surprising reality--of Amazon women begins with the fierce Greek huntress Atalanta, but takes us deep into the past and… — Steven Saylor
Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life… — Henry Ward Beecher
Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful… — Walter Scott
Now you know well that the most deadly foes of the Catholic religion have always waged a fierce war, but without success, against this Chair… — Pope Pius IX
ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I will tear thee… — William Shakespeare
As the commercial confrontation between [free software] and software-that's-a-product becomes more fierce, patent law's going to be the terrain on which a big piece of… — Eben Moglen

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