#ferocity

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

#entering #ferocity #grants #hearing #makes

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 years. ↗

— Fred F. Fielding

#bandied #became #believe #element #evident

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

— John W. Gardner

#ferocity #laws #natural #species

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

— Bertrand Russell

#fear #ferocity #herd #instinct #members

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

#bigger #endowed #ferocity #fight #french

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

#ferocity #him #man #murder #tiger

Well," said Mary, "love is ferocious, too. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#love #love

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

— Markus Zusak

#cuss #ferocity #language #talent

Though she be but little, she is fierce! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#dreams

Birds are the last of the dinosaurs. Tiny velociraptors with wings. Devouring defenseless wiggly things and, and nuts, and fish, and, and other birds. They get the early worms. And have you ever watched a chicken eat? They may look innocent, but birds are, well, they're vicious. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#innocence