Fierce famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I loved her. I loved her with a something so fierce I couldn't even name it.
-- Abbi Glines -
I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
-- Adam Savage -
I just had one of those 'what the hell are we doing' moments.
-- Adam Savage -
This is the point in the show where we say, 'Oh, what else do we have in the van that's flammable?'
-- Adam Savage -
My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.
-- Adam Savage -
Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.
-- Adam Savage -
That was the Liam Stewart way of saying, Hi, darlin', missed you something fierce.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents.
-- Allen Weinstein -
I’d always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth.
-- Alma Katsu -
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 that its collapse was a good thing.
-- Andrew Ross Sorkin -
Thirst of wealth no quiet knows, But near the death-bed fierce grows.
-- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea -
One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman.
-- Barack Obama -
The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.
-- Bell Hooks -
It was a pretty fierce rivalry. I'm just speaking for myself, but I think it was general through the clubs. We didn't like them, and they didn't like us.
-- Bobby Thomson -
I love Beyonce. She's so fierce. I also love Lily Allen, and she was an influence on my music.
-- Bridgit Mendler -
Zizi was young and often confused about how to live his life, �and when he made a choice he clung to it with fierce resolve, �as if to beat his uncertainty into submission.
-- Candace Bushnell -
Fierce was her needle, and she wore it like a sword.
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
-- Clarence Darrow -
There's always been a fierce rivalry between Spurs and Tottenham.
-- David Pleat -
I'm fiercely loyal to my friends, and I really cherish my friendships.
-- David Schwimmer -
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
-- David Whyte -
Let’s be gentle with ourselves and each other and fierce as we fight oppression.
-- Dean Spade -
She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.
-- Elizabeth Gaskell -
I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young.
-- Elizabeth Kim -
I had a fierce curiosity about this food thing.
-- Emeril Lagasse -
I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me.
-- Emmy Rossum -
The strongest streak in the American character is a fierce pragmatism that mistrust blind ideology of every stripe and insists on finding what really works.
-- Eric Liu -
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
-- Francis Bacon -
When HOLINESS loses its sweetness it is a fierce thing to come in contact with.
-- Frank Bartleman -
If there's a severe recession, the automatic stabilizers will come into effect, and we will still try to reduce the structural deficit, but we will not try to keep cutting the budget so that we keep worsening a severe recession.
-- Franklin Raines -
No one is going to feel sorry for you, so you have to go out there and be fierce,
-- Gabby Douglas -
You know, you’re pretty when you smile,†she said, patting the side of his cheek. “Fierce, woman. I am fierce.†“If you say so.
-- Gena Showalter -
I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.
-- George Stevens -
My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.
-- George Stigler -
God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.
-- Giacomo Casanova -
The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.
-- Giambattista Vico -
She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.
-- Gilbert Parker -
I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.
-- Gretel Ehrlich -
Dave hung up. And unplugged the phone. With a fierce and bitter pain he stared at it, watching how, over and over again, it didn't ring.
-- Guy Gavriel Kay -
Critchley and Webster’s fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded.
-- Hari Kunzru -
Any Israeli attack on Lebanon, Iran, Syria or Gaza will be met with a fierce response.
-- Hassan Nasrallah -
...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.
-- Irving Stone -
I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
-- Irwin Shaw -
Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
-- Jack Kerouac -
Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger.
-- James Ellroy -
There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
-- John Darnielle -
And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
-- John Milton -
I suppose being fierce is a very good thing, and a very cool thing. But more than fierce, I think I'm a strong person and a strong individual. And that's what I take with me every day.
-- Johnny Weir -
From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.
-- Joseph Addison -
Trust me no tortures which the poets feign Can match the fierce unutterable pain He feels, who night and day devoid of rest Carries his own accuser in his breast.
-- Juvenal -
It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.
-- Karen Russell -
My mom could be really fierce. A regular Frau Badass.
-- Kresley Cole -
Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.
-- Magic Johnson -
All lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back and forth behind our days, but those tales grow too and shake us just as fierce.
-- Mark Lawrence -
I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.
-- Martha Plimpton -
Devil, do you dare approach me? and do you not fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head?
-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -
True warriors are fierce because their training is fierce.
-- Miyamoto Musashi -
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 fierce and positive.
-- Muriel Rukeyser -
Your love is a fierce thing, Elena, a thing with claws and teeth when it comes to protecting those you claim.
-- Nalini Singh -
You are never too young to be fierce and brave in your faith!
-- Natalie Grant -
Putting on fierce boots is an instant pick-me-up.
-- Nina Garcia -
Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.
-- Raymond Carver -
Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.
-- Robert Falcon Scott -
A loving and fierce defense of economics as a science.
-- Robert Krulwich -
Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.
-- Robinson Jeffers -
The sobbing wind is fierce and strong; its cry is like a human wail.
-- Sarah Chauncey Woolsey -
If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,And speed glum heroes up the line of death.
-- Siegfried Sassoon -
Death is not a reaper, like they say, nor even a friend. It is a dark, fierce water, an inundation.
-- Siobhan Dowd -
It's a good giggle to look back at yourself in your 20s. You thought you were so fierce and fabulous, and it's just embarrassing.
-- Tabatha Coffey -
I think on stage theres a side of me that comes out thats very fierce and confident.
-- Tessanne Chin -
Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.
-- Thomas de Quincey -
Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
-- Thomas Harris -
This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.
-- Timothy Geithner -
I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.
-- Ty Cobb -
These Indians are fierce, they wear feathers and grunt. Most of us dont fit this idealized figure since we grunt only when overeating
-- Vine Deloria Jr. -
Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
-- Wally Schirra -
Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
-- Walter Scott -
I know that I could really kill for my daughter. I know because I'm living for her, so I'm fierce when it comes down to it. And I feel the same about my husband and my family. I'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair.
-- Whitney Houston -
Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road.
-- William Davenant -
I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
-- William Tecumseh Sherman -
I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.
-- Winifred Holtby -
If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.
-- Xunzi -
The struggle against the Houthis inside Yemen is fierce. For years, powerful Yemeni tribes received money from Saudi Arabia. Now the Saudis back the Sunni tribes opposed to the Houthis with cash and arms. And then there is al-Qaida.
-- Safa Al Ahmad -
I’d always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth.
-- Alma Katsu -
I was born with a fierce need for independence.
-- Michelle Williams -
Let’s be gentle with ourselves and each other and fierce as we fight oppression.
-- Dean Spade -
I became a fierce advocate for gentle birth as a solution for the most pressing problems of our times - a solution that begins at the source.
-- Robin Lim -
Well, it so happens that I have had a spinal curvature since I was about thirteen and every once in a while that has given me some trouble, and at that time it began to kick up again. and occasionally I have to get into bed and nurse a severe backache.
-- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
