Fierce Quotes - Page 26

• People really want to set up these rivalries because there's a lot of vampire books out there. People want to believe we're all fierce rivals, and really there's just so much camaraderie with authors. Everyone kind of boosts each other.

  Richelle Mead

  Believe, Book, People

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• Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold?

  Shirley Booth

  Simple, Men, Thinking

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• The struggle against the Houthis inside Yemen is fierce. For years, powerful Yemeni tribes received money from Saudi Arabia. Now the Saudis back the Sunni tribes opposed to the Houthis with cash and arms. And then there is al-Qaida.

  Safa Al Ahmad

  Powerful, Struggle

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• A glamazon is someone who's taken a love of beauty and life and listen, depending on the weather or how my blood sugar at any time, I can be more outspoken than other times, but it's a conscious decision to live life with a fierce determination.

  RuPaul

  Determination, Live Life, Taken

  Source: www.npr.org

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• As a blogger, Chez Pazienza is filled with outrage, passion and insight -- delivered with a distinctive point of view, a wicked sense of humor, and a two-fisted style of prose. In Dead Star Twilight, he turns all these on himself -- and produces a fierce, funny, disturbing, but ultimately uplifting memoir. This is the book A Million Little Pieces dreamed of being.

  Arianna Huffington

  Uplifting, Stars, Book

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• If you work through the existing structures you are going to be corrupted. By working through political system that poisons the atmosphere, even the progressive organizations, you can see it even nowadays in the US, where people on the "Left" are all caught in the electoral campaign and get into fierce arguments about should we support this third party candidate or that third party candidate. This is a sort of little piece of evidence that suggests that when you get into working through electoral politics you begin to corrupt your ideals.

  Howard Zinn

  Party, Organization, People

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• I grew up in a family of predominantly female bread winners who are strong and are fierce and opinionated. There’s not enough women like that on the screen.

  Melonie Diaz

  Strong, Bread, Female

  "Melonie Diaz, ‘Fruitvale Station’ Star, On Her Breakout Role & Why She Does Indie Films". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2013.

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• Back in Romania, always I was struggling to compete with Vladislav Rastorotsky, the great Russian coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva. He was a powerful coach, internationally. I took him like the major challenge of my life, and pretty soon I'm beating him and we are pushing each other so hard, so fierce. But out of the arena, we are friends.

  Bela Karolyi

  Powerful, Struggle, Challenges

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• A loving and fierce defense of economics as a science.

  Robert Krulwich

  Defense, Economics

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• In case I get hit by a bus tomorrow, I want to make something clear - I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I plan to remain that way, in life and in death.

  Stella Young

  Sweet, Strong, Way In Life

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• True warriors are fierce because their training is fierce.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Warrior, Training, True Warrior

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• Why be so nasty and so rude, when I can be so fierce and so successful.

  NeNe Leakes

  Successful, Rude, Nasty

  Twitter post from Nov 12, 2014

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• On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Army, Men, Evening

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• Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Travel, White

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.450, Penguin

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• The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built a character - meditative and peaceful and a nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India.

  H. G. Wells

  Character, Peaceful, India

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• Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Cities, Dysfunction, Attachment

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• The landscape of my childhood was one of fierce occupation by trees.

  Janisse Ray

  Childhood, Tree, Occupation

  Janisse Ray (2003). “Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home”

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• There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

  David Whyte

  Lyrical, Aspect, Imaginative

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• I'm so personally attached to all the characters I met and photographed over the years ... the anthology is like a photographic reliquary that could potentially preserve their grace, fierce joy, and restlessness.

  Hedi Slimane

  Character, Years, Joy

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage

  Richard Paul Evans

  Animal, Feelings, Cages

  Richard Paul Evans (2007). “The Sunflower”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• ...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Ambition, Drug

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.4

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• Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

  Thomas Harris

  Hunting, Savages, Problem

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.320, Macmillan

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• We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Letting Go, Art, Thinking

  "Fierce Compassion" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2012.

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• To this day, I feel a fierce warmth for women that have the same disregard for the social conventions of sexual protocol as I do. I love it when I meet a woman and her sexuality is dancing across her face, so it's apparent that all we need to do is nod and find a cupboard.

  Russell Brand

  Dancing, Needs, Faces

  Russell Brand (2008). “My Booky Wook”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• Persistence is a unique mental strength; a strength that is essential to combat the fierce power of the repeated rejections and numerous other obstacles that sit in waiting and are all part of winning in a fast-moving, ever-changing world.

  Bob Proctor

  Moving, Persistence, Winning

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Feb 17, 2017

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