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

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.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

None speak of the bravery the might or the intellect of Jesus but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect political cunning and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

I'm fiercely independent but I'm also terrified of being alone.