Fierce Quotes - Page 19

• they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.

  George Orwell

  Dog, Mind, Watches

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Goodness knows she is too fierce for you Goodness knows she has eyes for a lord Goodness knows she yet will prove untrue Her cheek's blush is as false as her word

  Shannon Hale

  Eye, Lord, Goodness

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• She didn't want soft and gentle. She needed his rough possession, claiming her, branding her, taking her in a firestorm of heat and flame that would end the world around them, leaving them nothing but ashes, clean and fierce and forever welded together.

  Christine Feehan

  Flames, Forever, Leaving

  Christine Feehan (2010). “Wild Fire”, p.118, Penguin

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• The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!

  Adam Savage

  Couple, Glasses, Years

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• The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked

  Meg Rosoff

  Soldier, Black, Letters

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• Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?” “No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato were as different as Mel Tormé and Bing Crosby. In any case, things were a lot simpler in the old days,” Komatsu said. “Wouldn’t it be fun to imagine reason, will, and desire engaged in a fierce debate around a table?

  Haruki Murakami

  Fun, Plato, Soul

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• For though, as we have said, all children are heartless, this is not precisely true of teenagers. Teenage hearts are raw and new, fast and fierce, and they do not know their own strength. Neither do they know reason or restraint, and if you want to know the truth, a goodly number of grown-up hearts never learn it.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Teenage, Children, Heart

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.316, Macmillan

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• Tired of me already?" he asked with a smile in his voice. "No quite yet. You?" His eyes darkened, and he kissed her again. "Never." Her heart skipped a beat. "Never is a long time," she said. His voice was low, fierce. And very sure. "That's what I'm counting on.

  Jill Shalvis

  Tired, Heart, Eye

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• The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

  George Santayana

  Men, Laughing, Savages

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• We look at each other without saying anything, both of us smiling like idiots. I heart is so full I can’t believe it can possibly still beat without bursting right in front of me. My desire for him is so fierce I’m afraid to stand, because I know my knees will be too weak to hold me up, but there’s more than that. This great and bursting thing inside me is love.

  Megan Hart

  Believe, Heart, Desire

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• Some Warriors look fierce, but are mild. Some seem timid, but are vicious. Look beyond appearances; position yourself for the advantage.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Fighting, Warrior, Looks

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• Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Hands, Weight, Bears

  'Imaginary Conversations' 'Archdeacon Hare and Walter Landor' in 'The Last Fruit off an Old Tree' (1853)

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• They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Love, Men, History

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• Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights.

  Alan Moore

  Giving Up, Rights, Years

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• She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

  Gilbert Parker

  Race, Harm, Be Good

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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• I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.

  Martha Plimpton

  Trying, Belief, Patriot

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• Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Men, Progress Of Society

  The Fountainhead pt. 4, ch. 18 (1943)

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• Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Country, Evil, Justice

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• Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Greatness, Men, Ordinary

  Walter Savage Landor (1883). “Classical dialogues, Greek and Roman”

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• Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

  George Santayana

  Too Much, Philosopher, Severe

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.18, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

  Zoe Saldana

  Women, Latin, Thinking

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• It always surprised Valkyrie whenever she realized just how close the weird and the wonderful, and the fierce and the frightening, lived to the rest pf the non-magical, mortal world.

  Derek Landy

  World, Wonderful, Frightening

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• The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

  Bertrand Russell

  Anger, Math, Religion

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.67, Routledge

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• The professor leaned forward. “But there’s nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.” Her lovely face turned fierce. “Think about it Cath. That’s what makes a god—or a mother. There’s nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Mother, Thinking, Creating

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.516, St. Martin's Griffin

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• In early psychoanalytic thought, narcissism was - and still, of course, is - self-love. The early psychoanalysts used to talk of libido directed at the self. That now feels a little quaint, that kind of language. But it does include the most fierce and self-displaying form of one's individual self. And in this way, it can be dangerous. When you look at Donald Trump, you can really see someone who's destructive to any form of life enhancement in virtually every area. And if that's what Fromm means by malignant narcissism, then it definitely applies.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Mean, Narcissism, Language

  Source: www.salon.com

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