Fierce Quotes - Page 27

• No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

  Clarence Darrow

  Helping, Penalties, Offense

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.72, Lulu.com

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• What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we turn into our homestead the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived.

  Moshe Dayan

  Eye, Eight, Years

  "The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World". Book by Avi Shlaim, 2000.

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• One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman.

  Barack Obama

  Light, Brilliant, Phenomenal Woman

  "Maya Angelou dies at age 86: See poet talk life lessons, 'greatest gift' on TODAY" by Eun Kyung Kim, www.today.com. May 28, 2014.

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• To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.

  R. C. Sproul

  Hands, Focus, Mind

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• War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing.

  George W. Bush

  War, Peaceful, September 11

  Remarks at the National Day of Prayer & Remembrance Service, delivered 14 September 2001, Episcopal National Cathedral

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• It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a vastly complex web of reasons; and, of course, such complexity is warranted. No one illness or event causes suicide; and certainly no one knows all, or perhaps even most, of the motivations behind the killing of the self. But psychopathology is almost always there, and its deadliness is fierce. Love, success, and friendship are not always enough to counter the pain and destructiveness of severe mental illness

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Pain, Motivation

  FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from Feb 18, 2013

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• Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.

  Adyashanti

  Reality, Grace, Challenges

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• We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Motivational, Today, Complacency

  "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence". Speech at Riverside Church in New York City, April 4, 1967.

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• Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.

  Raymond Carver

  Art, Pleasure

  Raymond Carver, Marshall Bruce Gentry, William L. Stull (1990). “Conversations with Raymond Carver”, p.52, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Face dance means you don't know what the hell the rest of your body was doing but your face is fierce. That's face dancing.

  Rosie Perez

  Mean, Dancing, Body

  "'Face dance means you don't know what the hell the rest of your body was doing but your face is fierce. That's face dancing.' —Rosie Perez" by Nelson George, www.esquire.com. March 24, 2014.

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• Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.'

  Maya Angelou

  Being Strong, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly how it can be done.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Broken, Done

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• There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

  Arthur Helps

  Beauty, Humility, Grace

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• Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference - in our own lives and those of others.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Wise, Powerful, Kindness

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• The place of true healing is a fierce place. It's a giant place. it's a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Healing, Dark, Light

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.21, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

  William Ellery Channing

  Smile, Patience, Ignorance

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• I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Tough, Fragile

  Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

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• I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others - and I am one of those - never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end.

  Yann Martel

  Giving Up, Fighting, Loss

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be.

  Ira Glass

  Heart, Fearless, Want

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• Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.

  Jack Kerouac

  People, Bitterness, Realizing

  Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg (2010). “Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters”, p.33, Penguin

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• One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.

  Polly Toynbee

  Pain, Anxiety Disorder, People

  "It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2006.

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• The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

  Giambattista Vico

  Nature, Firsts, Benign

  Giambattista Vico (2015). “The New Science of Giambattista Vico”, p.153, Cornell University Press

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• But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness; for us, death is stronger than life, it pulls like a wind through the dark, all our cries burlesqued in joyless laughter; and with the garbage of loneliness stuffed down us until our guts burst bleeding green, we go screaming round the world, dying in our rented rooms, nightmare hotels, eternal homes of the transient heart.

  Truman Capote

  Laughter, Children, Loneliness

  Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.124, Vintage

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• When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.

  Angus Young

  Men, Caves, Rock N Roll

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• Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to begin being useful at once.

  A. A. Milne

  Winter, Ideas, Piglet

  A A Milne (1998). “Cn Pooh 12-Copy Slipcase #06: Ams - Kanga & Baby Roo Comes to the Forest”, Dutton Books

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