Fierce Quotes - Page 17

• Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no authentic Tantra without profound commitment, discipline, courage, and a sense of wild, foolhardy, fearless abandon.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Commitment

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• Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

  John Keats

  Men, Criticism, Blame

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.225, e-artnow

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• A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Vanity, Justice

  Walter Savage Landor (1876). “Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen”, p.50

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• A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only the people need to be improved.

  Charles Ferguson

  People, Justice, Diversity

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• I saw finally the futility of all these gestures, that witchcraft is but a matter of focus-that one cann apply one's fierce and immeasurable energies to an act of choice.

  Anne Rice

  Choices, Focus, Energy

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• It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

  Francis Bacon

  Politics, Moral, Politician

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.111

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• We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

  William James

  Men, Differences, Choices

  William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Summer, Struggle, Cricket Match

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• [Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give them markets on every side. Long time I will keep them on their feet, by poverty, border-wars . . . seafaring . . .

  Marsilio Ficino

  Nature, War, Sea

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• In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mind, Stronger, Body

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• Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him,
  Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

  Ovid

  Love, Valentine, Fighting

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.16, Indiana University Press

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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 is near that will be like no pain felt before.

  Norman Mailer

  Pain, Who I Am, Sound

  NORMAN MAILER (1983). “ANCIENT EVENINGS”

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• I think it is important to maintain a sense of self and confidence, not letting either falter for the sake of a particular part or project, no matter how great it might be.

  Fred Savage

  Confidence, Thinking, Self

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

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• That was the Liam Stewart way of saying, Hi, darlin', missed you something fierce.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Way, Missed You, Liam

  Alexandra Bracken (2016). “The Darkest Minds”, p.420, Hachette UK

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• All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Pain, Philosophical, Doubt

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• Once you plant seeds of success, your tree will bear fierce fruit.

  Tyra Banks

  Tree, Top Model, Fruit

  "America's Next Top Model", Cycle 12, April 22, 2009.

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• That [Pagani] Zonda, really! It’s like a lion in orange dungarees. Kind of fierce, but ridiculous all at the same time.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Orange, Lions, Ridiculous

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• Putting on fierce boots is an instant pick-me-up.

  Nina Garcia

  Pick Me Up, Boots, Instant

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• The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.

  Davy Crockett

  Long, Enemy, Savages

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• Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.

  Jim DeMint

  Block, Men, Civilization

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• In this time when a citizenry applauds the liberation of a country as it lives in fear of its own freedom, when people all over the country fear reprisal if they use their right to free speech, it is time to get angry. It is time to get fierce.

  Tim Robbins

  Country, People, Speech

  "A Chill Wind is Blowing in This Nation". Tim Robbins' speech to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., archive.commondreams.org. April 15, 2003.

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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 girls seemed fierce and determined.

  Emilia Clarke

  Girl, School, Nine

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

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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 discussion to come. But whatever the outcome of ensuing criticisms or objections, The World Republic of Letters -- empire more than republic, as Casanova shows -- is likely to have the same sort of liberating impact at large as Said's Orientalism, with which it stands comparison.

  Perry Anderson

  Impact, Criticism, Orientalism

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• Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

  William C. Bryant

  Pain, Agony, Reign

  William Cullen Bryant, “Mutation”

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• If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack.

  David Knopfler

  Unique, Doors, Ice

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