Fierce Quotes - Page 5

• A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching-they are your family. And they were my heroes.

  Jim Butcher

  Gratitude, Courage, Hero

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.304, Penguin

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• Being a mom myself and it being a huge and important part of who I am, made it easier for me to play the role of a strong, fierce, giving mom...

  Lorraine Toussaint

  Mom, Strong, Who I Am

  "EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Hollywood Starlette Lorraine Toussaint". Interview with Kristin Downer, www.nerdprobs.com. November 1, 2015.

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• On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.

  Terry Brooks

  Stress, Book, Writing

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• So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.

  John Hanning Speke

  Dark, Pigs, Savages

  John Hanning Speke (2007). “Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile”, p.25, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• As the commercial confrontation between [free software] and software-that's-a-product becomes more fierce, patent law's going to be the terrain on which a big piece of the war's going to be fought. Waterloo is here somewhere.

  Eben Moglen

  War, Law, Patents

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• Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina

  Ike Skelton

  Home, Suffering, Emergencies

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• Why should you row a boat race? Why endure the long months of pain in preparation for a fierce half hour that will leave you all but dead? Does anyone ask the question? Is there anyone who would not go through all the costs, and more, for the moment when anguish breaks into triumph or even for the glory of having nobly lost? Is life less than a boat race? If a man will give the blood in his body to win the one, will he spend all the might of his soul to prevail in the other?

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Pain, Winning, Men

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• The intrusions of the white race and the non- compliance with treaty obligations have been followed by atrocities that could alone satisfy a savage and revengeful spirit.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Race, White, Atrocities

  NELSON A. MILES (1911). “SERVING THE REPUBLIC”

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• A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.

  John Dos Passos

  Men, Order, Relief

  John Dos Passos (1964). “Occasions and protests”

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• The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

  Elihu Root

  War, Wish, Facts

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.

  Adam Savage

  Television, Dignity

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

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• Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems.

  Carl Levin

  Country, Cutting, Years

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• ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs: The time and my intents are savage-wild, More fierce and more inexorable far Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Jealous, Sea

  William Shakespeare, Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan (1998). “The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1037, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream; Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh who would wish to be thy king!

  Walter Scott

  Dream, Kings, Blood

  Walter Scott (1869). “Poetical Works: Complete in One Volume with All His Introd. and Notes”, p.220

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• The fierce ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might well have been imagined by Horatio Alger, Jr.-- or Samuel Goldwyn-- but not the hidden costs behind those achievements. Carl Rollyson compassionately captures the man behind the movie star.

  Marion Meade

  Stars, Ambition, Son

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• Good men and good women have fire in the belly. We are fierce. Don't mess with us if you're looking for someone who will always be 'nice' to you. Nice gets you a C+ in life. We don't always smile, talk in a soft voice, or engage in indiscriminate hugs. In the loving struggle between the sexes we thrust and parry.

  Sam Keen

  Sex, Nice, Struggle

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• We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Real, Luxury, America

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Remember, Given

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.41, Canongate Books

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• The childbearing year is a thirteen month year: the two months before conception, the nine months of pregnancy, and the two months following the birth. The childbearing is a time of adjustments and fierce emotions. The childbearing year touches every season.

  Susun Weed

  Pregnancy, Years, Two

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• When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.

  Ralph Thomas Walker

  Character, Pride, Self

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• The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.

  James Mark Baldwin

  Mean, Thinking, Savages

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “From the earliest times to John Locke.- v. 2. From John Locke to the present time”

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• 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

  Trying, Fool, Break

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• Remember kids, I have life insurance.

  Adam Savage

  Kids, Remember

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• The only thing that frightens me a little is when I'm called Kevin rather than Fred, but that's how people have known me for so many years. So, I can't really blame them.

  Fred Savage

  Years, People, Kevin

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.

  William Robertson Smith

  Religion, Savages, May

  William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.55, Transaction Publishers

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