Fierce Quotes - Page 24

• I think that women can be just completely surprised by the change in them from giving birth-you have something powerful in you-that fierce thing comes up-and I think babies need moms to have that fierceness-you feel like you can do anything and that’s the feeling we want moms to have.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Mom, Baby, Powerful

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• You know when people smile too much? It's painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I'm trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.

  Tori Amos

  People, Trying, Too Much

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• Let’s be gentle with ourselves and each other and fierce as we fight oppression.

  Dean Spade

  Fighting, Oppression, Gentle

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• No one is going to feel sorry for you, so you have to go out there and be fierce.

  Gabby Douglas

  Sorry, Feels, Feel Sorry For You

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• Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

  Horace

  Sports, War, Wrath

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• Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Medicine, Sick, Democracy

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• It is not up to us to particularize, but rather to deduce that the concepts of human rights originated from the divine influence because, as far as we are concerned, we are compelled to recognize our slow individual evolution from fierce selfishness toward a universal love, from the iniquity toward true justice.

  Chico Xavier

  Rights, Justice, Selfishness

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• Like a fierce wind roaring high up in the bare branches of trees, a wave of passion came over me, aimless but surging . . . I suppose it's lust, but it's awful and holy like thunder and lightning and the wind.

  Marion Milner

  Passion, Wind, Tree

  Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.20, Taylor & Francis

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• The exploitation agenda advocated by liberals is modeled after the dependency-inducing design of the drug dealer's business model: "We'll supply the first hit for free, and after that, you'll need us forever in order to survive." In order for the liberal scheme to succeed, all attempts at self-empowerment or individual initiative are to be met with fierce resistance and social sanction.

  Angela McGlowan

  Order, Self, Forever

  Angela McGlowan (2009). “Bamboozled: How Americans are being Exploited by the Lies of the Liberal Agenda”, p.11, Thomas Nelson

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• You hope that the same people are coming back. I love playing with Angela [Bassett]. She's fierce. I met her years and years ago when she was a student at Yale, so to see her do these fierce roles and go on to [be] this powerhouse has just been awesome.

  Kathy Bates

  Yale, Years, People

  Source: guff.com

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• I'm thinking of writing a children's story about a leaf on a tree who arrogantly insists he's a self-made, independent leaf. Then one day a fierce wind blows him off his branch and to the ground below. As his life slowly ebbs away, he looks up at the magnificent old tree that had been his home and realizes that he had never been on his own. His entire life he had been part of something bigger and more beautiful than anything he could have imagined. In a blinding flash, he awakens from the delusion of self. Then an arrogant, self-centered kid rakes him up and bags him.

  Chuck Lorre

  Beautiful, Children, Kids

  "The Big Bang Theory (TV Series) The Thanksgiving Decoupling". www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• If post-punk enterprise suggested that pop music could establish a fierce skittishness, an aggressive self-irony, that would enable it to transcend its manufactured state, video narcissism announces that pop has found an easy way to steal more cash from young people and damage their natural desires.

  Paul Morley

  Self, People, Desire

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• There are plenty of times we need fierce compassion, fierce love. Just like when a child does something that is very harmful and we say "No!", we need some kind of fierceness. There's a certain kind of fierceness that can look like anger and has that fire of anger, but the difference is that it's not blinded with reactivity.

  Mark Coleman

  Children, Compassion, Fire

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• In my culture, my mother's sisters are also my mother. And my father's sisters are my mother's, too. So I have many mothers. My mom has a fierce love for her children. And she's known to say things like if you die I'll kill you.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song.

  Edmund Spenser

  Song

  Edmund Spenser, Carol V. Kaske (2006). “The Faerie Queene, Book One”, p.3, Hackett Publishing

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• The confusion of spirit and body is quite understandable in a culture where spirit is concretized in magnificent skyscrapers, where cathedrals have become museums for tourists, where woman-flesh-devil are associated, and nature is raped for any deplorable excuse. Dieting with fierce will-power is the masculine route; dieting with love of her own nature is the feminine. Her only real hope is to care for her own body and experience it as the vessel through which her Self may be born.

  Marion Woodman

  Real, Museums, Self

  "The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter". Book by Marion Woodman, 1980.

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• Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Heart, Fire, Desire

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “Lavinia”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There’s nothing more fierce than the female, like the momma lion. Believe me, my wife is a good example.

  Lance Henriksen

  Believe, Wife, Example

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• Throughout the course [of Twilight], you get to see a little more of her vampiric side, because I think she's this vampire with a heart of gold and so that was kind of fun - to show her be a little tough and a little fierce, and to show that she has a little bit of a sassy side when she's dealing with the wolves or with Jacob. So I feel like I got to really round [Alice Cullen] out quite nicely.

  Ashley Greene

  Fun, Twilight, Heart

  Source: my.xfinity.com

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• Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without the offer of resistance, nor can the grandeur of its free will declare itself, except in the battle of fierce temptation.

  James Martineau

  Character, Temptation, Battle

  James Martineau (1879). “Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons”

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• We do seem, as a culture, to fetishize the "sweep." But I know there's room for "big" short, fierce novels, and "big" solid ones.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Culture, Rooms, Bigs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Legions of young hip-hop fans are as against this as hip-hop's most fierce critics. There is a huge underground movement within hip-hop circles that against these representation. You can hear this message on tons of lyrics and rap songs produced by independent emcees. But they are fighting against a well-oiled and well-financed machine.

  Bakari Kitwana

  Song, Rap, Independent

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• Just because we think of wolves (or the wilderness, or another race) as wild and fierce, doesn't mean there isn't another side to them.

  Stef Penney

  Mean, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• Everyone faces challenges from the fierce competition as well as the manipulative crooks that are rampant throughout the music business.

  Wendy Starland

  Competition, Challenges, Crooks

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• The substance of mind is the substance of heaven. A joyful thought is an auspicious star or a felicitous cloud. An angry thought is a thunderstorm or a violent rain. A kind thought is a gentle breeze or a sweet dew. A stern thought is a fierce sun or an autumn frost. Which of these can be eliminated? Just let them pass away as they arise, open and unresisting, and your mind merges with the spacious sky.

  Zicheng Hong

  Sweet, Stars, Rain

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