Fierce Quotes - Page 22

• 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

  Would Be, Bitter, Accepting

  Alma Katsu (2012). “The Taker: Book One of the Taker Trilogy”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent. Go down to your deep old heart, and lose sight of yourself. And lose sight of me, the me whom you turbulently loved. Let us lose sight of ourselves, and break the mirrors. For the fierce curve of our lives is moving again to the depths out of sight, in the deep living heart.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Moving, Heart, Love Is

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Edition”, p.85, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.

  Alice Walker

  Light, Cost, Sweetness

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.174, New Press, The

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• 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

  Business, Typical, Usual

  "Geithner's Speech to the Economic Club of Washington" by Timothy Geithner, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 22, 2009.

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• I had a fierce curiosity about this food thing.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Curiosity

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• The resources of nature, like those of spirit, are running out, and all that a conscientious man can aspire to be is a literal conservative, hoarding what remains of culture and of natural wealth against the fierce appetites of modern life.

  Russell Kirk

  Running, Men, Hoarding

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.362, Regnery Publishing

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• Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Food, Thinking, Sheep

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• What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others

  Lucretius

  Food, Men, Poison

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• A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.

  William Cowper

  Joy, Passionate, May

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.343

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• 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

  Weakness, Bones, Century

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (2001). “The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers”, p.20, Stanford University Press

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• I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Thinking, Mexican, Roles

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• Once (says an Author; where I need not say)
  Two Trav'lers found an Oyster in their way;
  Both fierce, both hungry; the dispute grew stong;
  While Scale in Hand Dame Justice pass'd along
  Before her each with clamour pleads the Laws.
  Explain'd the matter, and would win the cause,
  Dame Justice wighing long the doubtful Right
  Takes, opens, swallows it, before their sight.
  The cause of strife remov'd so rarely well,
  "There take" (says Justice), "take ye each a shell.
  We thrive at Westminster on Fools like you:
  'Twas a fat oyster - live in peace - Adieu."

  Pope Alexander VI

  Winning, Sight, Hands

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• Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.

  Aaron Carter

  Music, Hope, Spirit

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Wise, Power, Political

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.152

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• At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Reality, People, Community

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• The fighting was fierce and lasted for the greater part of a day; blood ran in rivers.

  Matthew of Edessa

  War, Fighting, Blood

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• Rage is a powerful energy that with diligent practice can be transformed into fierce compassion. However much we disagree with our enemies, our task is to identify with them. They too feel justified in their point of view.

  Gautama Buddha

  Powerful, Compassion, Views

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• We Scots have a fierce pride in the things we do that others can never appreciate. I am the British No. 1, but I would prefer to be the British No. 1 from Scotland every time.

  Andy Murray

  Pride, Scotland, Appreciate

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• He was a lifelong Republican, but over the years, Harry Blackmun built a reputation as a liberal, sometimes defiant Justice, whose fierce protection of individual rights led some to anoint him the moral conscience of the court.

  Judy Woodruff

  Years, Rights, Justice

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• I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in this country. I'm up for petrol bombers, mate, and fighting in the streets.

  Pete Doherty

  Music, Country, Passion

  Metro, August 25, 2006.

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• The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed... The heart's fierce effort to protect itself from every slight, to shield its touchy honor from the bad opinion of friend and enemy, will never let the mind have rest.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Humility, Heart, Love Is

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• Fierce Determination and Gentle Humility are the ornaments which make one attractive in the eyes of the Lord.

  Radhanath Swami

  Determination, Humility, Eye

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• Of Planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Struggle, Heaven, Wilderness

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.639, Pearson Education

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• The time was simply ripe for the disappearance of tonality. Naturally this was a fierce struggle; inhibitions of the most frightful kind had to be overcome, the panic fear, 'Is that possible, then?' So it came about that gradually a piece was written, firmly and consciously, that wasn't in a definite key any more.

  Anton Webern

  Struggle, Keys, Overcoming

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• I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.

  Emanuel Celler

  Ambition, Sight, Smell

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