Quotes of: Ferocity Keyword

...writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing the truth ...

A Familiar Rain

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

John W. Gardner

I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

Divergent

...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.

The Book Thief

Ferocity is a trait highly regarded amongst us.

Tommy Avenger and the House of Bones

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

Unpopular Essays

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

George Bernard Shaw

These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably.

Diablo Cody

It must be tempered with discipline. Ferocity is useless unless employed in the proper place . . .

Cursor's Fury

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

Havelock Ellis

Despite the gentlemanly kiss, a ferocity burned behind his gaze promising something primal.

Stolen Petals

The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

The Conduct of Life: A Philosophical Reading

It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon ...

Fred F. Fielding

She rounded on me with such ferocity that for a moment I didn’t recognize her. A flash of fangs, a dark gleam in her blacker-than-night eyes. It was the most vampiric I’d ever seen her.

Corcitura

People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.

Damien Chazelle

I am an Ultimate,” she vowed, the walls of her heart quaking with ferocity and determination. “And I have the power to do the impossible.

The Sky Realm

The French are endowed with bigger limbs; those of the Spaniards are stronger; they have a very slim waist. The French fight with more ferocity than advise. The Spaniards the opposite.

Michael Servetus

Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunctio...

Bharati Mukherjee

There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry James, and I wish he was dead.' Influence is perdition.

Cynthia Ozick

The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination.

Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

Priest: I don't want to hear it. No more horror stories. Commoner: They are common stories these days. I even heard that the demon living here in Rashômon fled in fear of the ferocity of man.

Rashomon