My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.
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?
. . . and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.
Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce mystery that we call death.
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
Every patriot believes his country better than any other country. . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough if it were simply defensive, but it is also aggressive. . . Patriotism deliberately and with folly aforethought subordinates the interests of a whole to the interests of a part. . . Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone.
Though she be but little, she is fierce!
Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot.
It seems like thin people should not be running around dissing overweight people, and overweight people should not be running around dissing thinner people. . . if you like your body, love it, if you feel beautiful, cool. If you're a size 24 and you are feeling fierce, heat. If you're a size 0 and feeling fierce, be fierce. I think we need to stop worrying about what other people are doing and start focusing on manifesting on ourselves.
Just because we think of wolves (or the wilderness, or another race) as wild and fierce, doesn't mean there isn't another side to them.
Tired of me already?" he asked with a smile in his voice. "No quite yet. You?" His eyes darkened, and he kissed her again. "Never. " Her heart skipped a beat. "Never is a long time," she said. His voice was low, fierce. And very sure. "That's what I'm counting on.
My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.
From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.
The struggle against the Houthis inside Yemen is fierce. For years, powerful Yemeni tribes received money from Saudi Arabia. Now the Saudis back the Sunni tribes opposed to the Houthis with cash and arms. And then there is al-Qaida.
True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes soon as granted fly; It liveth not in fierce desire.
What's the weather like?. . . It's fierce mild!
The talk of sheltering woman from the fierce storms of life is the sheerest mockery, for they beat on her from every point of thecompass, just as they do on man, and with more fatal results, for he has been trained to protect himself, to resist, to conquer.
Yeah, well, he’s still on Dark-Hunter payroll, so tell him to keep his phone turned on. (Talon) Ooo. Getting testy in your fierce nakedness. (Kyrian)
Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.