Quotes About Ferocity

A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts.

I have both English bulldog determination and Bengal tiger strength.

People are saying: 'Look, there are times when her expression is so severe that it quite alters her. Her beauty changes to... It's hard to interpret. Is it an expression of ferocity or something quite different–compassion?

Les pires exemples de férocité ne servent jamais qu'à durcir chez l'auditeur quelques fibres de plus, et comme le cÅ"ur humain a déjà à peu près la mollesse d'une pierre, je ne crois pas nécessaire de travailler plus dans ce sens. (p. 140)

And so on that bright morning, the smoky Sicilian sun making them sweat, the six Mafia chiefs rode their horses up and down along the wall surrounding Prince Ollorto's estate. The assembled peasants, under olive trees older than Christ, watched these six men, famous all over Sicily for their ferocity. They waited as if hoping for some miracle, too fearful to move forward.

Las referencias feroces, aunque vagas, que escuchaba en boca de los cadetes, estimulaban su imaginación. En sueños, el nombre se presentaba dotado de atributos carnales, extraños y contradictorios, la mujer era siempre la misma y distinta, una presencia que se desvanecía cuando iba a tocarla o lo sumía en una ternura infinita y entonces creía morir de impaciencia.

Freak the ferocious out.

Ferocity occurs in all conditions save in joy. Schadenfreude, malicious joy, is a misrepresentation. To do evil is a pleasure, not a joy. Joy, the one true victory over the world, is pure in its essence, hence irreducible to pleasure, which is always suspect, both in itself and in its manifestations.

A man who trembles dreams of making others tremble, a man who lives in terror ends his days in ferocity. Hence the case of the Roman emperors.

Todo lo que no tiende a la pureza de la nada está embebido de una feroz vulgaridad

Whenever we encounter him in the flesh, our faith is made perfect and his necessary and bloody end is executed with a mystical ferocity of joy.

The dark glee, the savage ferocity aroused by the possession of a few water-white pebbles, set me shuddering. I was dumb with amazement.

Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.

I am much fucking angrier than you think.

You're going to eat him alive and never even notice.

Every nail, claw-scale and spur, every spike and welt on the hand of that heathen brute was like barbed steel.

A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.

Everyone knows that a wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.

He smiled like a cat with fresh chipmunk blood on his whiskers.

It was something, he was sure, he would be capable of tearing flesh from bone to defend.

Barbarians!' he roared. 'Filthy barbarians!

Bluestar was gnawing a fat pigeon.

Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.

Pienso en lo estúpida que soy por haber dejado entrar a estos dos individuos. Por haber asumido que podría controlarles, cuando son criaturas feroces, acostumbradas a encontrar un punto de apoyo sobre el que hacer palanca para explotar las debilidades ajenas, siempre necesitados de más, mientras que yo soy nueva en esto. En lo de necesitar.