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Top 117 Fierce Quotes in 2020

By: Quotes Guru | Last Updated: June 20, 2020

“I think about the Arabs not as enemies but as cousins. Even when we are in a fierce conflict with them, they are more of a kind of family – with all the problems of a family. We have to live with them.”

― A. B. Yehoshua

“I think I’ve shown the world I’m a fierce competitor, yes. But I’ve also shown them that I’m a fierce human being.”

― Adam Rippon

“Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights.”

― Alan Moore

“The fear of this delicate and fierce feminine has more to do with our fear of being vulnerable again, getting hurt again, than it does by our actual distaste for the beauty of the feminine and Her qualities.”

― Alanis Morissette

“I’m not running from the left; I’m running from the bottom. I’m running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.”

― Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and – in doing so – to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents.”

― Allen Weinstein

“Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.”

― Allen West

“When I read the news that Wonder Woman was going to be resurrected for a blockbuster movie in 2016, ‘Batman vs. Superman’, it made me excited – and anxious. Would the producers give her a role as fierce as her origins – and maybe some shoulder straps – or would she just be cartoon eye candy?”

― Amanda Foreman

“The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.”

― Amy Bloom

“The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing.”

― Andrew Ross Sorkin

“M dad was a boxer, so he had this fierce, physical presence.”

― Anthony Browne

“The drag scene in the U.K. is super fierce!”

― Aquaria

“Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.”

― Aristotle

“Polygraphs have sparked a fierce debate for at least a century.”

― Bill Dedman

“Tight hamstrings are fierce. And I’m guilty of not allocating the time that I should to stretch. I’ll put the time in for the runs, but then I go, ‘I have to go here. I’ve got to go there.’ Usually, stretching is what gets cut out of the program, but it’s so critical.”

― Bill Rancic

“I think Jim Taylor was very underrated, never hear much about him. We played Green Bay every year in exhibition, and generally we played them every couple of years in regular season. And I always thought he was a fierce competitor.”

― Bob Lilly

“There’s fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.”

― Bob Schieffer

“It was a pretty fierce rivalry. I’m just speaking for myself, but I think it was general through the clubs. We didn’t like them, and they didn’t like us.”

― Bobby Thomson

“People have really taken Mrs. Brown to their hearts. I think she reminds them of their own mammies… Fierce and scary but full of love.”

― Brendan O’Carroll

“It’s normal that elections make fierce partisans of many of us. It’s normal that Mr. Trump would attract the usual right-wing buffoons to his banners. Normal, also, is that many voters may not be troubled by Mr. Trump’s cruder statements when they hear him addressing their deepest economic and social anxieties.”

― Bret Stephens

“I love Beyonce. She’s so fierce. I also love Lily Allen, and she was an influence on my music.”

― Bridgit Mendler

“You know how Beyonce has Sasha Fierce? That’s how I am. When I go out onstage, I become a different person.”

― Bryson Tiller

“There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.”

― Carl Sagan

“Google is a fierce competitor. I wish I was worth a bazillion dollars; that would be really nice. They’re a fierce competitor, and they’re very good in search. They’re very good with their global map thing.”

― Carol Bartz

“Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.”

― Carrie Brownstein

“The severity of punishments ought to be relative to the state of the nation itself. Stronger and more easily felt impressions have to be made on a people only just out of the savage state. A lightning strike is needed to stop a fierce lion who is provoked by a gunshot.”

― Cesare Beccaria

“I got four sisters. They’re all very fierce.”

― Chad Coleman

“Acting, taken to the highest level, requires a fierce, total focus of your time and energy at the cost of just about everything else.”

― Charlton Heston

“I like my customer to be fierce.”

― Christian Louboutin

“My mother was a passionate, complicated, sometimes fierce woman.”

― Christina Baker Kline

“We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the filter is becoming very thin and very porous. The ratings race for TV and websites is incredibly fierce, and one of the ways of getting people to watch is through graphic violent images.”

― Dan Gilroy

“No. I am not a royalist. Not at all. I am definitely a republican in the British sense of the word. I just don’t see the use of the monarchy though I’m fierce patriot. I’m proud proud proud of being English, but I think the monarchy symbolizes a lot of what was wrong with the country.”

― Daniel Radcliffe

“There’s a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.”

― David Whyte

“When, who, and what things happen to becomes meaningful, then what happens starts to matter, and play can evoke strong emotions, fierce and ongoing urges to succeed, and a desire to leave a mark, drive meaningful change, or build lasting institutions.”

― Ed Greenwood

“I love fierce performers.”

― Ella Eyre

“I looked around one stage school when I was maybe nine. It just scared the bejesus out of me. I was incredibly open, and the girls seemed fierce and determined.”

― Emilia Clarke

“We’ve all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it’s not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.”

― Emmanuelle Beart

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

― Emmy Rossum

“It would be amazing to play Sylvia Plath. She was so dark, and what came out of her writing was troubled and fierce. The dimensions, levels, layers and levels would be incredible to take on.”

― Evangeline Lilly

“An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.”

― Felix Adler

“Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides.”

― Ferdowsi

“My mom says I’m a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.”

― Gabby Douglas

“I hope that I helped to build a fierce pride in what we are and what we can do if we set our minds to it.”

― Gene Roddenberry

“Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by her scholarship, and democratized its study by her activism.”

― Gloria Steinem

“Be like Sasha Fierce. Be like Miley Cyrus. Be like Rihanna. Be like Lady Gaga. Be like Rita Ora and Sia. Be like Madonna. I cannot be like them, except to the extent that they are already being like me.”

― Grace Jones

“The severe household has no fierce slaves, but it is the affectionate mother.”

― Han Fei

“The severe household has no fierce slaves, while it is the affectionate mother who has the prodigal son.”

― Han Fei

“Any Israeli attack on Lebanon, Iran, Syria or Gaza will be met with a fierce response.”

― Hassan Nasrallah

“The futures of Crackle and Hulu and so forth become more and more important as we connect to more and more devices. We need our content to make our services as attractive as Apple’s or Amazon’s or Microsoft’s. We’re in a brave new world of fierce competition.”

― Howard Stringer

“Off the field, both India and Pakistan enjoy a healthy relationship, and that’s the way it should be – friends off the field and fierce competitors on it.”

― Inzamam-ul-Haq

“The Tigris is so fierce and rapid, and swallows its alluvial banks so greedily, that it is probable that some of the buildings described by the Hebrew traveller Benjamin of Tudela as existing in the twelfth century were long since carried away.”

― Isabella Bird

“I’m really not that fierce.”

― Iyanla Vanzant

“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

“The holy angels live and qualify in the light, in the good quality wherein the Holy Ghost reigneth. The devils live and reign in the fierce wrathful quality, in the quality of fierceness and wrath, destruction or perdition.”

― Jakob Bohme

“When I dance, I look almost identical to Beyonce. And I mean identical. In many ways, when she becomes Sasha Fierce, she’s actually just becoming me.”

― James Corden

“I have three sons, and I think we’re both fierce protectors of our children.”

― Jami Gertz

“Despite my fierce opposition to the bill, I signed up for insurance through the exchanges and instructed my staff do the same.”

― Jeff Duncan

“In Wisconsin, I led the Assembly to a balanced budget in face of fierce opposition from the status quo.”

― Jeff Fitzgerald

“I recently discovered the work of Giorgio Manganelli, who wrote a collection called ‘Centuria,’ which contains 100 stories, each of them about a page long. They’re somewhat surreal and extremely dense, at once fierce and purifying, the equivalent of a shot of grappa. I find it helpful to read one before sitting down to write.”

― Jhumpa Lahiri

“The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I’ll probably move on to something else.”

― Jodie Sweetin

“We need constant change, technological innovation capability, and high productivity to survive in the fierce competitive environment.”

― Joe Kaeser

“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

“Corporate competition is fierce, viewed by many as economic warfare where all is fair. But politics… now, this is something unique.”

― John McAfee

“I think when you saw this year’s playoffs, Miami and Detroit have a pretty fierce rivalry now. Also, the Suns and San Antonio look like they’re starting to develop something there. I look forward to seeing those rivalries continue and develop.”

― John Starks

“Meghan Trainor is my female crush because she’s just fierce.”

― Karamo Brown

“I have always been a fierce fighter against anti-Semitism. I oppose it and always have.”

― Keith Ellison

“I’ve always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young.”

― Kim Elizabeth

“Socialism is a sacred cause for realizing the demand and desire of the masses of the people for independence; it is a revolutionary cause that advances amid a fierce struggle against imperialism and all other counterrevolutionary forces.”

― Kim Jong-un

“We should raise fierce flames of innovations in the vanguard sectors, basic industrial sectors, and all other sectors of the national economy.”

― Kim Jong-un

“Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.”

― Lactantius

“Now I’m going to show a side of me I haven’t shown before. I’m going to be fierce.”

― La’Porsha Renae

“I have a fierce temper. I’ve mastered it over the years, but when I’m angry, no one can force me to do anything I don’t want to.”

― Lata Mangeshkar

“In both British and American history, fervent imperialism has always coexisted with bouts of fierce isolationism.”

― Linda Colley

“During the protracted tooth-and-nail tussle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primaries, I was one of those fierce partisans desperate for the first black candidate with a serious shot at the White House to win the nomination.”

― Lionel Shriver

“The narratives in which you’re born have a fierce pattern of repetition.”

― Mahesh Bhatt

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

― Margaret Mead

“In every advanced mammalian species that survives and thrives, a common anthropological characteristic is the fierce behavior of the adult female of the species when she senses a threat to her cubs. The lioness, the tigress and the mama bear are all examples.”

― Marianne Williamson

“I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.”

― Martha Plimpton

“I grew up in a family of predominantly female bread winners who are strong and are fierce and opinionated. There’s not enough women like that on the screen.”

― Melonie Diaz

“I would like to see a fierce Fantasia mixed with Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars all in one. That’s the kind of movies I want to make.”

― Michelle Rodriguez

“I was born with a fierce need for independence.”

― Michelle Williams

“It’s not publicly known, but antivirus companies co-operate all the time. On the surface, antivirus vendors are direct competitors. And in fact, the competition is fierce on the sales and marketing side. But on the technical side, we’re actually very friendly to each other. It seems that everyone knows everyone else.”

― Mikko Hypponen

“As an artist, Priyanka Chopra is quite inspiring – she is unstoppable, fierce, and she does everything!”

― Mithila Palkar

“When I’m debating others, whether it’s Eleanor Clift or Bob Beckel, you’re still in a fierce debate mode, but you’re also on best behavior.”

― Monica Crowley

“The Islamic terror threat is so fierce, unrelenting and barbaric that we tell ourselves fairy tales about how these ruthless acts are anything but what they are: acts of war.”

― Monica Crowley

“The quoll is like the Australian version of the honey badger. It’s a little mongrel that gets around and is pretty fierce and will take on a few things. You don’t want to get that in your campsite.”

― Nick Cummins

“The fierce battles between New Democrat centrists and old-style liberals that defined the Democratic Party in the 1990s are long gone, with the party unified behind Barack Obama’s economic agenda of universal health care, expensive federal programs and more regulation of the financial markets.”

― Nina Easton

“Putting on fierce boots is an instant pick-me-up.”

― Nina Garcia

“When I get on stage, Beyonce is my alter ego. The way that she’s Beyonce in real life and then Sasha Fierce on stage, I’m Normani in real life, and then I pretend to be Beyonce on stage. I just love that she’s constantly reinventing herself but stays true to who she is as a person – and she wears so many hats in her life.”

― Normani Kordei

“Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.”

― Oscar Levant

“I am fierce, yes, but I’m serious about music.”

― Perfume Genius

“I’m not sure that Jesuits ever produce faithful Catholics. Because they’re too fierce. It is Sturm und Drang, and it is guilt – it is all that battlefield stuff.”

― Peter Hammill

“If I have to be fierce, I’ll be fierce.”

― Quvenzhane Wallis

“The dragonfly is an exceptionally beautiful insect and a fierce carnivore. It has four wings that beat independently. This gives it an ability to maneuver in the air with superb dexterity. A dragonfly can put on a burst of speed, stop on a dime, hover, fly backward, and switch direction in a flash. This is a hunting behavior known as hawking.”

― Richard Preston

“People really want to set up these rivalries because there’s a lot of vampire books out there. People want to believe we’re all fierce rivals, and really there’s just so much camaraderie with authors. Everyone kind of boosts each other.”

― Richelle Mead

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

― Robert Falcon Scott

“I’m a fierce advocate for diversity. Always have been, always will be.”

― Roland Martin

“As a reporter in Israel, I have interviewed hundreds of people in its intelligence and defense establishments and studied thousands of classified documents that revealed a hidden history, surprising even in the context of Israel’s already fierce reputation.”

― Ronen Bergman

“I love my 303 ladies. We go hard here, you know – we’re fierce!”

― Rose Namajunas

“My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.”

― Salman Rushdie

“I was brought up in Cumbria where I saw all these fierce agricultural women.”

― Sarah Hall

“India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.”

― Simon Beaufoy

“I love boxing. There’s something fierce about using your body’s force that way.”

― Sophia Bush

“In the wild, those traits that are adaptive for survival and reproductive advantage are brought out through natural selection. So cats that were fierce, furtive hunters, alert to the snapping of every twig, with coats that gave them good camouflage, would have been favored by evolution.”

― Sue Hubbell

“I think on stage there’s a side of me that comes out that’s very fierce and confident.”

― Tessanne Chin

“I’m really focused on Minnesota and Minnesotans, and I will come to Washington, D.C., prepared to be a fierce advocate for Minnesotans, especially around economic opportunity and fairness.”

― Tina Smith

“What I intend to do is be just a really fierce advocate for Minnesotans here in Washington, D.C.”

― Tina Smith

“I don’t always feel fierce and fearless, but I do feel like I’m a rock star at being human.”

― Tracee Ellis Ross

“When people start to perceive you as the big guy, you’re not allowed to be scrappy, fierce.”

― Travis Kalanick

“I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.”

― Ty Cobb

“Even Apple, notorious for keeping a tight grip on its products, allows fierce competitors like Google, Amazon, Spotify, and Microsoft to offer their apps on its phones and tablets.”

― Walt Mossberg

“’Savage’ is a trait that might get you into business school or retweeted 10,000 times. It’s what a kid might say after somebody does something awesome or gnarly or fierce: ‘Oh, that’s savage!’ It’s the skate park. It’s the high-school cafeteria. It’s the YouTube comments section.”

― Wesley Morris

“As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don’t think I had that when I was a kid.”

― Will Oldham

“Though she be but little, she is fierce.”

― William Shakespeare

“Winnie Harlow is my alter ego like how Beyonce refers to her stage name as Sasha Fierce.”

― Winnie Harlow

“Chantelle Winnie is my birth name. Chantelle Winnie Harlow, I call her my Sasha Fierce.”

― Winnie Harlow

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

― Xun Kuang

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