Fierce Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Daughter, Husband, Killing

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

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• The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

  Victor Hugo

  Nature, Men, Sea

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.58, Wordsworth Editions

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• O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, School, Littles

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

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• The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost a maidenlike, guest in hall, a gentle, modest, unobtrusive man. He is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth and meek to the nth.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Men, Knights

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• An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

  Felix Adler

  Taken, Desire, Unrest

  "Patricians, Professors, and Public Schools: The Origins of Modern Educational Thought in America". Book by Allan Stanley Horlick, 1994.

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• If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.

  Xunzi

  Bravery, Guidance, Violent

  Xunzi, John Knoblock (1988). “Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works”, p.153, Stanford University Press

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• I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me.

  Emmy Rossum

  Competition, Singing, Seven

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• Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

  John Sterling

  Tyrants, World, Affection

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• I love boxing. There's something fierce about using your body's force that way.

  Sophia Bush

  Boxing, Body, Way

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

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• 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

  Faith, Directors, Cliche

  Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 1982.

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• The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

  Hank Aaron

  Sports, Baseball, Running

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• It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

  Christopher Morley

  Men, Literature, Violence

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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• The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

  John C. Calhoun

  Errors, Confusion, Transition

  JOHN C. CALHOUN (1854). “A DISQUISITION ON GOVERNMENT AND A DISCOURSE ON THE CONSTITUTIONA ND GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES”, p.90

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• I chose to be Mrs. Johnny Cash in my life. I decided I'd allow him to be Moses and I'd be Moses' brother Aaron, picking his arms up and padding along behind him.

  June Carter Cash

  Inspirational, Brother, Cash

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• None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

  Lydia M. Child

  Jesus, Bravery, Political

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 34, 1843.

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• White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Flower, Color White, Shining

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• I have three sons, and I think were both fierce protectors of our children.

  Jami Gertz

  Children, Son, Thinking

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• We live in a time today where we face fierce global competition.

  Erskine Bowles

  Competition, Live For Today, Faces

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• I think when you saw this year's playoffs, Miami and Detroit have a pretty fierce rivalry now. Also, the Suns and San Antonio look like they're starting to develop something there. I look forward to seeing those rivalries continue and develop.

  John Starks

  Thinking, Years, Sun

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• The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else.

  Jodi Sweetin

  Moving, Competition, Adults

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Needs, Brilliant, Underestimate

  Theodore Dreiser, Roark Mulligan (2010). “The Financier: The Critical Edition”, p.264, University of Illinois Press

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• I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is.

  Paul Harvey

  Money, Mouths, Loyal

  "Paul Harvey" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2009.

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• I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Real, Book, People

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• Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Heart, Mirrors, Sight

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• I think Jim Taylor was very underrated, never hear much about him. We played Green Bay every year in exhibition, and generally we played them every couple of years in regular season. And I always thought he was a fierce competitor.

  Bob Lilly

  Football, Couple, Thinking

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