The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.
Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.
I suppose being fierce is a very good thing, and a very cool thing. But more than fierce, I think I'm a strong person and a strong individual. And that's what I take with me every day.
The only good produced by the disappearance of Africville was the appearance of a conscious black nationalism … In this regard, Consecrated Ground is the heir of fierce, vengeful, and epic activism.
I'm really not that fierce.
Claim the events of your life! When you posses all you have been and done, you are fierce with reality.
Russia's now in the middle of a fierce confrontation with Turkey. And that's one of France's NATO allies.
I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was brought up
Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
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
Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.
. . . some people cannot bear the truth, no matter how tactfully it is told. No doubt the haughty, the tyrannical, the unmerciful, the impure and the fomentors of discord take a fierce exception to the Sermon on the Mount.
That was the Liam Stewart way of saying, Hi, darlin', missed you something fierce.
You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality. When at last age has assembled you together, will it not be easy to let it all go, lived, balanced, over?
Every day, the dispensing of existence. . . . Its face is fierce and distant and ancient.
When HOLINESS loses its sweetness it is a fierce thing to come in contact with.
Elk have not been seen in Switzerland for many a year. In the interests of scientific accuracy, please strike the idea of elk from your mind. If you must, think of ibexes instead, a fierce and agile type of goat with great spiraling horns. Marmots will also do in a pinch, but under no circumstances should you think of elk. No. Elk. The elkless among you may now proceed.
I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty—everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?
I am a fierce supporter of Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and gay rights in this country.
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.