London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Once, in a three-day taping that included several sadists, the material was so overwhelming that both the film crew and I got… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
God has laid upon us many severe trials in this world, but He has created labour for us, and all is compensated.… — Ernest Legouve Copy Share Image
I know of no severe depression, in any country or any time, that was not accompanied by a sharp decline in the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of… — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The physical signs of measles are nearly the same as those of smallpox, but nausea and inflammation is more severe, though the… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
There are people who are afraid to go to confession, forgetting that they will not encounter a severe judge there, but the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a… — Alan Rosenberg Copy Share Image
While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon… — Elias Lyman Magoon Copy Share Image
Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Never is the gospel of Jesus Christ more beautiful than in times of intense need, or in times of a severe storm… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that… — Edward Burnett Tylor Copy Share Image
It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
Sociotropic voters with biased economic beliefs are more likely to produce severe political failures than are selfish voters with rational expectations. — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult… — Phillis Wheatley Copy Share Image
A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The internal conditions in Iran are worsening in all aspects. Poverty and unemployment are becoming more severe, despite the fact that Iran… — Moshe Katsav Copy Share Image
This is a very grave matter, punishable by...well, I do not exactly know what, but something rather severe, I should imagine. — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
When people are in severe pain, there's an expression, you're a "pain person," and what that means is that nothing else matters. — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
[Gays and lesbians should be] Punished, in fact, killed. The people involved should be killed in the worst, most severe way of… — Ali al-Sistani Copy Share Image
Unless we have a Central Bank with adequate control of credit resources, this country is going to undergo the most severe and… — Jacob Schiff Copy Share Image
Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states,… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
The thing that experts agree on is that although divorce is difficult and stressful for kids no matter what, the real harm… — Emily Doskow Copy Share Image
It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe…It is foolish… — Frederick Seitz Copy Share Image
The reports from the scientific world are that, there is very sadly an escalating impact of HIV and Aids in South Africa.… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Israelis have taken a lot of security measures which reduce significantly the ability of Iran to inflict truly severe pain in… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Prospects for growth in the year ahead are solid at the national level, and of course, this can only be good news… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Take pandemics. There could easily be a severe pandemic. A lot of that comes from something we don't pay much attention to:… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The bottom half of humanity is living in severe poverty; not all of them are malnourished or severely deprived now, but they… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image