Fierce Quotes

• The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When HOLINESS loses its sweetness it is a fierce thing to come in contact with.

  Frank Bartleman

  Holiness, Sweetness, Contact

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• No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

  William Shakespeare

  Pity, Beast, Knows

  'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 2, l. 71

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• I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.

  Ty Cobb

  May, Lows, Bases

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Though she be but little, she is fierce!

  William Shakespeare

  Tattoo, Fitness, Zebras

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 323

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• I'm really not that fierce.

  Iyanla Vanzant

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• 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.

  Climate, Breaking Silence, Today

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

  Margaret Mead

  Funny, Hilarious, Peace

  "Quote Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, 1977.

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• No. I am not a royalist. Not at all. I am definitely a republican in the British sense of the word. I just don't see the use of the monarchy though I'm fierce patriot. I'm proud proud proud of being English, but I think the monarchy symbolizes a lot of what was wrong with the country.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Country, Thinking, Use

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• Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.

  James Joyce

  Buddhism, Civilization, Excellence

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.2227, Delphi Classics

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• I love Beyonce. She's so fierce. I also love Lily Allen, and she was an influence on my music.

  Bridgit Mendler

  Love Is, Lilies, Influence

  "Bridgit Mendler On ‘Good Luck Charlie,’ Music, And The Craziest Thing A Fan Has Asked Her". Interview with Taylor Trudon, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2013.

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• 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

  Hero, Lines, Speed

  'Base Details' (1918)

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• My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.

  Salman Rushdie

  Grandmother, My Grandmother, Wide

  "How to Understand Kashmir and Survive the Jihadis: An Interview with Sir Salman Rushdie". Interview with Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 8, 2009.

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• My number one inspiration was my mother. She worked two jobs and had breakfast and dinner prepared. I essentially called my mother, The Lion. She's fierce and she's proud. I'd like to think some of that rubbed off on me.

  Christopher Judge

  Mother, Jobs, Inspiration

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.

  Lactantius

  Savages, Mars, Venus

  Lactantius (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Lactantius (Annotated Edition)”, p.40, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.

  Bob Schieffer

  Competition, Stories, Guests

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• You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Competition, Fields, Financial

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• When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms.

  Frank James

  Dog, Horse, Feet

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• I'm fiercely proud to be Scottish.

  Ewan McGregor

  Proud, Scottish

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• I'm fiercely loyal to my friends, and I really cherish my friendships.

  David Schwimmer

  Loyal, Cherish, My Friends

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• Aaron is not at all what his image might indicate. He's fiercly loyal and a true and total gentleman. He's very shy but has very strong opinions. He's into everything, wardrobe, hair, script, casting.

  Stephen Collins

  Strong, Hair, Gentleman

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• I would like to see a fierce Fantasia mixed with Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars all in one. That's the kind of movies I want to make.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Stars, War, Blade Runner

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• He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.

  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

  Horse, Loss, Fire

  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1840). “Georgia scenes: characters, incidents, in the first half century of the republic”, p.24

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• I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

  Irwin Shaw

  Literature, Critics

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• when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.

  Dale Carnegie

  Blow, Wind, Burning

  Dale Carnegie (2004). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

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