#fierce

Isabella with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge out of the remains, and walk carelessly to freedom, her hair looking fabulous the entire time. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#isabella #freedom

We have the greatest power through love that can be known. It overcomes everything with its fierce and steady truth, if you can continue to stand in it. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#power #stand #standing-your-ground #steady #truth-fierce

I try to walk around without being noticed but I can’t help attracting attention with my pink Mohawk, black clothing and steel toes, and often I’m with Holly and we’re both tall and arrogant. ↗

— Jo Treggiari

#fierce-ink-press #memoir #love

The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else. ↗

— Jodie Sweetin

#become #competition #else #fierce #i

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

#between #confusion #constitutes #decay #error

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

— Robert Falcon Scott

#empty #empty stomach #fear #fierce #hunger

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs. ↗

— Jack Lynch

#coke #fierce #fruitless #grammar #ibm

Yo, Dekko, who do I gotta blow around here to get a shower? ↗

— Kresley Cole

#berserker #dreams-of-a-dark-warrior #immortals-after-dark #kresley-cole #lore

I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#because #been #children #concerns #could

But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce. ↗

— Lanford Wilson

#blow #building #came #changed #city