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His calm and gentle tone was like an anchor in a ferocious sea, keeping me from drifting into a current of heartache. – unknown	added by unochickie 1 year ago
As fighters, they have a reputation that goes back centuries of being ferocious and instilling fear among invading armies that tried and failed to crush them. So, you end up with Chechen characters in novels by Tolstoy and Pushkin, some of the great literary giants of Russian literature, and this fear of the Chechens fighter is not for nothing. – Jonathan Wachtel	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Williams wrote about current and past racial tensions in America reflected through Walter Williams teenage years in a housing project in Northern Philadelphia. News of Walter Williams death promptedwords of grief from several prominent Republicans. Walter Williams was legendary, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, wrote. Walter Williams was brilliant, incisive, witty, and profound. I grew up reading Walter Williams, and Walter Williams was a ferocious defender of free markets and a powerful explainer of the virtues of Liberty. – Fox News	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Once we got the pouch open, a tiny little hand came out with claws on it, so, yeah, there's a pinkie - very little baby unfurred possum, so she's a ferocious mother who has clearly done her best for her bub. – Tracy Burgess	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We have to inform the Lebanese people that they have to go on a vicious diet, we have to take ferocious measures, like that haircut which has never happened in Lebanon's history and has to happen immediately. – Dan Azzi	Found on CNN 4 years ago
What that has meant is what the Conservative party put in that advert has been the subject of ferocious public debate and discussion, precisely because people could see that it was there. – Rebecca Stimson	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
He was totally compliant, submissive even still not enough to save him from the ferocious violence of the police department. – Jarrett Maupin	Found on CNN 4 years ago
A ferocious confrontation is shaping up between the will of the Hong Kong people and the Xi Jinping administration,( which is) determined to be the arbiter of things in Hong Kong. – Willy Lam	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama mission is the story of an epic battle and the ferocious eternal struggle between good and evil. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I really always worked hard, because I recognized from a pretty young age it was one of the only things I could control, i remember I did karate as a kid, at the Jewish Community Center, and when I started I was the worst in the class, I was the worst of 25 Jewish kids who were afraid of getting picked on. And then just because everyone else quit, three years later I was at the top of the class, and there were 25 Jewish kids who were worse than me. And that was always tangible : Just by not stopping I became the best one. It wasn't this, like, ferocious leap. I just kept going, and slowly [ other ] people stopped. Because a lot of people will stop. – Seth Rogen	Found on CNN 4 years ago
If this United States administration always treats other countries, companies or individuals in a ferocious way, then no one would dare invest in the United States. – United States	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think he values the fact I've been there a lot, that I was a pretty ferocious critic of Obama, and that the things that I predicted about Iraq came true. – Lindsay Graham	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Today is one of the most ferocious days our people have seen, before we were suffering from illegal Israeli settlements. Now it's another illegal settlement by the Israel and the United States. – Mahmoud Abbas	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Today is one of the most ferocious days our people have seen, before we were suffering from illegal Israeli settlements. Now it's another illegal settlement by the Israel and Ivanka Trump. – Mahmoud Abbas	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Boats washed ashore, houses without roofs, windows smashed in, trees snapped in half, gum trees torn out of the ground and those that do remain standing, are bare and lifeless, the wind gusts were so ferocious, they sounded like freight trains passing by. The concrete walls were shaking non-stop all day. – Jacqui McCullagh	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
These high turnover issues increase the possibility that when U.S.-led forces leave Afghanistan for good, whenever that is, they will be leaving Afghan forces unable to fend off a still-ferocious insurgency. – Michael Kugelman	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I would not want to be someone who's on the receiving end of Jeb Bush's competitiveness. It's ferocious when it needs to be. – Justin Sayfie	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The new Nigerian president will have to fight Boko Haram because the group cannot be dealt with any other way, boko Haram has even alienated fellow Islamists who believe in Sharia governance. That doesn't mean that these Islamists opposed to Boko Haram are moderates; just that they are less ferocious than Boko Haram. – Ryan Mauro	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it. – Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire	added by anonymous 14 years ago

His calm and gentle tone was like an anchor in a ferocious sea, keeping me from drifting into a current of heartache.

– unknown

added by unochickie
1 year ago

As fighters, they have a reputation that goes back centuries of being ferocious and instilling fear among invading armies that tried and failed to crush them. So, you end up with Chechen characters in novels by Tolstoy and Pushkin, some of the great literary giants of Russian literature, and this fear of the Chechens fighter is not for nothing.

– Jonathan Wachtel

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Williams wrote about current and past racial tensions in America reflected through Walter Williams teenage years in a housing project in Northern Philadelphia. News of Walter Williams death promptedwords of grief from several prominent Republicans. Walter Williams was legendary, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, wrote. Walter Williams was brilliant, incisive, witty, and profound. I grew up reading Walter Williams, and Walter Williams was a ferocious defender of free markets and a powerful explainer of the virtues of Liberty.

– Fox News

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Once we got the pouch open, a tiny little hand came out with claws on it, so, yeah, there's a pinkie - very little baby unfurred possum, so she's a ferocious mother who has clearly done her best for her bub.

– Tracy Burgess

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We have to inform the Lebanese people that they have to go on a vicious diet, we have to take ferocious measures, like that haircut which has never happened in Lebanon's history and has to happen immediately.

– Dan Azzi

Found on CNN
4 years ago

What that has meant is what the Conservative party put in that advert has been the subject of ferocious public debate and discussion, precisely because people could see that it was there.

– Rebecca Stimson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

He was totally compliant, submissive even still not enough to save him from the ferocious violence of the police department.

– Jarrett Maupin

Found on CNN
4 years ago

A ferocious confrontation is shaping up between the will of the Hong Kong people and the Xi Jinping administration,( which is) determined to be the arbiter of things in Hong Kong.

– Willy Lam

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Bill Clinton and Barack Obama mission is the story of an epic battle and the ferocious eternal struggle between good and evil.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I really always worked hard, because I recognized from a pretty young age it was one of the only things I could control, i remember I did karate as a kid, at the Jewish Community Center, and when I started I was the worst in the class, I was the worst of 25 Jewish kids who were afraid of getting picked on. And then just because everyone else quit, three years later I was at the top of the class, and there were 25 Jewish kids who were worse than me. And that was always tangible : Just by not stopping I became the best one. It wasn't this, like, ferocious leap. I just kept going, and slowly [ other ] people stopped. Because a lot of people will stop.

– Seth Rogen

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If this United States administration always treats other countries, companies or individuals in a ferocious way, then no one would dare invest in the United States.

– United States

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I think he values the fact I've been there a lot, that I was a pretty ferocious critic of Obama, and that the things that I predicted about Iraq came true.

– Lindsay Graham

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Today is one of the most ferocious days our people have seen, before we were suffering from illegal Israeli settlements. Now it's another illegal settlement by the Israel and the United States.

– Mahmoud Abbas

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Today is one of the most ferocious days our people have seen, before we were suffering from illegal Israeli settlements. Now it's another illegal settlement by the Israel and Ivanka Trump.

– Mahmoud Abbas

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Boats washed ashore, houses without roofs, windows smashed in, trees snapped in half, gum trees torn out of the ground and those that do remain standing, are bare and lifeless, the wind gusts were so ferocious, they sounded like freight trains passing by. The concrete walls were shaking non-stop all day.

– Jacqui McCullagh

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

These high turnover issues increase the possibility that when U.S.-led forces leave Afghanistan for good, whenever that is, they will be leaving Afghan forces unable to fend off a still-ferocious insurgency.

– Michael Kugelman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I would not want to be someone who's on the receiving end of Jeb Bush's competitiveness. It's ferocious when it needs to be.

– Justin Sayfie

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The new Nigerian president will have to fight Boko Haram because the group cannot be dealt with any other way, boko Haram has even alienated fellow Islamists who believe in Sharia governance. That doesn't mean that these Islamists opposed to Boko Haram are moderates; just that they are less ferocious than Boko Haram.

– Ryan Mauro

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it.

– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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