Fierce Quotes - Page 2
Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria
Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.
Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.116, Oxford University Press
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.18, Rajpal & Sons
I just had one of those 'what the hell are we doing' moments.
"MythBusters/ Buster Special". Documentary, Mystery, Reality-TV, 2005.
Xunzi, John Knoblock (1988). “Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works”, p.153, Stanford University Press
Winifred Holtby (1937). “Letters to a friend”
Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.700
Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.41, Canongate Books
Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.8, Hamilton Books
Of Planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.639, Pearson Education
Irving Stone (1987). “The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo”, Signet
Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
George Cooper Stevens, Paul Cronin (2004). “George Stevens: Interviews”, p.13, Univ. Press of Mississippi
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.111