Fierce Quotes - Page 16

• But the trouble with sainthood these days is the robe-and-halo imagery that gets stuck onto it." Carl got that brooding look again. "People forget that robes were street clothes once... and still are, in a lot of places. And halos are to that fierce air of innocence what speech balloons in comics are to the sound of the voice itself. Shorthand. But most people just see an old symbol and don't bother looking behind it for the meaning. Sainthood starts to look old-fashioned, unattainable... even repellent. Actually, you can see it all around, once you learn to spot it.

  Diane Duane

  Voice, Clothes, Air

  Diane Duane (2003). “A Wizard Alone”, p.234, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Punishment, Desire, Adultery

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.33, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Strong, Love Is, Forever

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• I like the Cyclostyle ink; it is so inky. I do not think there is anyone who takes quite such a fierce pleasure in things being themselves as I do. The startling wetness of water excites and intoxicates me: the fieriness of fire, the steeliness of steel, the unutterable muddiness of mud. It is just the same with people.... When we call a man "manly" or a woman "womanly" we touch the deepest philosophy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophy, Men, Thinking

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• The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on fields wide-eyed and watchful and entirely careless of what was done or thought by the beholders.

  Virginia Woolf

  Spring, Done, Toss

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.341, Wordsworth Editions

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• The trees have inquisitive eyes, haven't they? -that is, seem as if they had. And the river says,-'Why do ye trouble me with your looks?' And you seem to see numbers of to-morrows just all in a line, the first of them the biggest and clearest, the others getting smaller and smaller as they stand further away; but they all seem very fierce and cruel and as if they said, 'I'm coming! Beware of me! Beware of me!

  Thomas Hardy

  Eye, Rivers, Numbers

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• You're new here, aren't you?" Rolan asked. "Rose is visiting. She's a friend of the family." Viktoria said. "Ah," he said. "Now I remember hearing about you. I had no idea such a fierce Strigoi killer would be so beautiful." "It's part of the job description," I said dryly.

  Richelle Mead

  Beautiful, Jobs, Ideas

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• He could feel V's eyes sharpen, the vampire's fierce intellect churning over the situation. Among the brothers, Vishous had the most raw brainpower, but he paid for the privilage. Man, Wrath sure had his own demons, and they were no walk in the park, but he wouldn't have wanted Vishous's cross to bear. Seeing what had yet to come was a terrible burden. -Wrath's thoughts

  J.R. Ward

  Brother, Eye, Men

  J.R. Ward (2005). “Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.125, Penguin

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• And now you're off to Port Caynn. Watch them sailor lads. They'll have your skirts up and a babe in your belly afore you know what you're about." "Everyone keep warning me about sailors," I complained. "Why can't someone tell the sailors to stay clear of me?" Granny snorted. "Oh, you're the fierce one now! Just take care no one else catches you unawares and knocks you on the nob!

  Tamora Pierce

  Sex, Watches, Warning

  Tamora Pierce (2012). “Beka Cooper: The Hunt Records”, p.351, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.

  Jack London

  World, Saws, Spirit

  Jack London (2011). “Call of The Wild, White Fang”, p.271, Bantam Classics

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• I want to hear raucous music, to see faces, to brush against bodies, to drink fiery Benedictine. Beautiful women and handsome men arouse fierce desires in me. I want to dance. I want drugs. I want to know perverse people, to be intimate with them. I never look at naive faces. I want to bite into life, and to be torn by it.

  Anais Nin

  Beautiful, Men, People

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• Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger.

  James Ellroy

  Time Apart, Danger, Our Time

  James Ellroy (1997). “White Jazz”, Ballantine Books

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• Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

  John Milton

  Thrones, Oratory, Ancient

  John Milton, Henry John Todd, Thomas Newton, John Aikin (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.275

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• People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available to them won't get them closer to the comforts that they see others enjoying, the temptation to take shortcuts can be fierce.

  Katherine Boo

  Long, People, Temptation

  "The whorl of poverty". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com. May 18, 2012.

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• I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

  Octavia Butler

  Savages, Get Away, Let Me

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• The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few anchorage, and nobody can go ashore unnoticed by the guards. Its winter is mild because it is enclosed by a range of mountains which keeps out the fierce temperature; its summer is unequal. The open sea is very pleasant and it has a view of a beautiful bay.

  Tacitus

  Beautiful, Summer, Latin

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• Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud and fierce even in hell, in spite of their certain knowledge and contemplation of the absolute truth; there are some fearful ones who have given themselves over to Satan and his proud spirit entirely. For such, hell is voluntary and ever consuming; they are tortured by their own choice. For they have cursed themselves, cursing God and life. And they will burn in the fire of their own wrath forever and yearn for death and annihilation. But they will not attain to death.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suicide, Believe, Suicidal

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• To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."

  Robert Breault

  Dog, Children, Grandmother

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• The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

  George Jackson

  Reading, Black, Savages

  George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, Chicago Review Press

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• Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism... 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.

  Lying, Hero, Racism

  "Beyond Vietnam". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Speech at Riverside Church in New York City, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. April 4, 1967.

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• I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

  Lord Byron

  Thinking, Humanity, Devil

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2725, Delphi Classics

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• It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Believe, America

  Isadora Duncan (1972). “My Life”, Liveright Publishing Corporation

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• Critchley and Webster’s fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded.

  Hari Kunzru

  Witty, Writing, Exploration

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• Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very symbol of military excellence. The Corps has come to be recognized worldwide as an elite force of fighting men, renowned for their physical endurance, for their high level of obedience, and for the fierce pride they take, as individuals, in the capacity for self discipline.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Military, Fighting, Pride

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• Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.

  Zhuge Liang

  Leadership, Art, War

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