Fierce Quotes
'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The House of Lords'
Raymond Carver, Marshall Bruce Gentry, William L. Stull (1990). “Conversations with Raymond Carver”, p.52, Univ. Press of Mississippi
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.72, Lulu.com
Vine Deloria,Jr. (1971). “Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto”
Muriel Rukeyser, Janet E. Kaufman, Anne F. Herzog, Jan Heller Levi (2005). “The collected poems of Muriel Rukeyser”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.
Karen Russell (2012). “Swamplandia!”, p.130, Random House
The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.
Giambattista Vico (2015). “The New Science of Giambattista Vico”, p.153, Cornell University Press
I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.
Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA
Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger.
James Ellroy (1997). “White Jazz”, Ballantine Books
William Tecumseh Sherman (1990). “Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman”, p.368, Library of America
Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg (2010). “Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters”, p.33, Penguin
Death is not a reaper, like they say, nor even a friend. It is a dark, fierce water, an inundation.
Siobhan Dowd (2015). “Bog Child”, p.189, Random House
bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.7, Routledge
Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.320, Macmillan