Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

Isn’t it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.

I have three sons, and I think were both fierce protectors of our children.

You are fierce. You are a lioness. You have ventured where few would go and showed up to lead and take charge.

So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I’d like to publish it someday.

Fierce language and pretentious advances are signs that the enemy is about to retreat.

I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

But you are fierce, you are unsubduable, you are no more to be touched in such moods than fire is to be touched.

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

From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.

I don’t feel like I have to be nice and apologetic all of the time. I’m trying to be strong and fierce.

We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.