Fierce Quotes - Page 18

• I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.

  Pol Pot

  Gun, People, Savages

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

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• O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer, Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.

  William Blake

  Summer, Flames, Hair

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• Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough if it were simply defensive, but it is also aggressive . . . Patriotism deliberately and with folly aforethought subordinates the interests of a whole to the interests of a part . . . Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, War, Believe

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• Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred? These ways of thinking - cultivated, nurtured, indoctrinated from childhood on - have been useful to those in power, and deadly for those out of power.

  Howard Zinn

  Religious, Thinking, Racism

  Howard Zinn (2013). “A Power Governments Cannot Suppress”, p.143, City Lights Books

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• Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry.

  John Milton

  Nature, War, Night

  John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.159

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• Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce individuality of passion with the dulling universal certainty of platitude.

  Mark Doty

  Inspirational, Pain, Passion

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• No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.

  Adrienne Rich

  Inspiring, War, Believe

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• At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Race, Savages

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)”, p.218, Diversion Books

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• Will’s eyes met Tessa’s as she came closer, almost tripping again over the torn hem of her gown. For a moment, they were in perfect understanding. Jem was what they could still look each other straight in the eye about. On the topic of Jem, they were both fierce and unyielding. Tessa saw Will’s hand tighten on Jem’s sleeve. “She’s here,” he said. Jem’s eyes opened slowly. Tessa fought to keep the look of shock from her face. His pupils were blown out, his irises a thin ring of silver around the black. “Ni shou shang le ma, quin ai de?” he whispered.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Hands, Perfect

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• I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.

  Adam Savage

  Gasoline, Mixtures, Fluid

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• Bigger is always better.

  Adam Savage

  Bigger

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• This is the point in the show where we say, 'Oh, what else do we have in the van that's flammable?'

  Adam Savage

  Vans, Shows

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• There is no dignity in television.

  Adam Savage

  Television, Dignity

  "MythBusters/ Vodka Myths". Documentary, Mystery, Reality-TV, 2005.

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• My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.

  Adam Savage

  Advice, Spinning, Lips

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

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• Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?

  Adam Savage

  Saint, Knees, Praying

  "MythBusters/ Quicksand/Bathtub/Electrocution/MRI Rays and Tattoos". Documentary, Mystery, Reality-TV, 2004.

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• In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

  Adam Savage

  Yield, Data, Tests

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• I just had one of those 'what the hell are we doing' moments.

  Adam Savage

  Hell, Moments, Mythbusters

  "MythBusters/ Buster Special". Documentary, Mystery, Reality-TV, 2005.

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• I reject your reality and substitute my own.

  Adam Savage

  Reality, Intelligence, Substitutes

  Twitter post from Oct 21, 2013

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• It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Selfish, Men, Apes

  "The Strange Fiction of Devon Pitlor: Volume III". Book by Devon Pitlor, p. 241, May 27, 2014.

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• I loved her. I loved her with a something so fierce I couldn't even name it.

  Abbi Glines

  Names

  Abbi Glines (2013). “Twisted Perfection: A Novel”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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• I feel a strange, fierce squeeze in my heart when I see him, like pride, although there's nothing about Sean that I can take credit for.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Heart, Pride, Credit

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.329, Scholastic UK

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• The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

  Adam Savage

  Thinking, Glasses, Faces

  "MythBusters/ Breaking Glass". Documentary, Mystery, Reality-TV, 2005.

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• Artemis looked at Holly and felt a tremendous affection for her... he could properly appreciate how fierce and beautiful his best friend was... She is truly magical, thought Artemis. Perhaps her qualities are more obvious to me now that I have decided to sacrifice myself.

  Eoin Colfer

  Beautiful, Sacrifice, Appreciate

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• But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Grieving, Wife, Forever

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Tire, Mercy

  William Tecumseh Sherman (1990). “Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman”, p.368, Library of America

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