Severe Quotes · Page 3

There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity.

— Sax Rohmer

A severe apprenticeship in the trade of praying must be served in order to become a journeyman in it.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

“We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not…

— Anaïs Nin

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

— Francis Bacon

But you must be patient and careful; nor should you expect to become an accomplished archer without long and severe training.

— Maurice Thompson

Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.

— Alain de Botton

It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.

— William Penn

Is it me? Is it like I have a beacon that only dogs and men with severe emotional problems can hear?

— Lisa Kudrow

But the question is to find and rear leaders that are really one with the masses. This can only be accomplished by…

— Herman Gorter

The language of Doctor Johnson and Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale, and that of their adult contemporaries, was the stately language of the…

— Robert Burchfield

While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its…

— Alan Greenspan

[Great scientists] are men of bold ideas, but highly critical of their own ideas: they try to find whether their ideas are…

— Karl Popper

When I wrote "Lead Me," I had no idea that God was preparing me to lead my family through a season of…

— Matt Hammitt

people who refuse to take risks live with a feeling of dread that is far more severe than what they would feel…

— Susan Jeffers

Few people are aware of the severe human rights violations committed daily by family court judges across the country. These courts are…

— Lundy Bancroft

That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business,…

— Peter Drucker

For we are not all equally afflicted with the same disease or all in need of the same severe cure. This is…

— John Calvin

Legalized drugs would cause dislocations in the US economy - the prison industry for example and tens of billions spent annually on…

— Charles Bowden

Hiding my migraines on the set may have been my toughest challenge as an actor. There were times when the pain from…

— Morgan Fairchild

Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives,…

— Sheila Kamerman

Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to…

— Jared Diamond

There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated...It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring…

— John Holdren

Even animals have a conscience. Those in the jungle KILL only to eat, not live to kill. This is why we often…

— Suzy Kassem

After a harassing warfare, prolonged by the nature of the country and by the difficulty of procuring subsistence, the Indians were entirely…

— Andrew Jackson

Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

— George Eliot

Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

I have a severe addiction to 'Angry Birds.' I always tell myself, 'One more game...' But then there's always another and another…

— Kevin Nealon

I got back from Toronto, where they had a severe outbreak of SARS- you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome.

— Margaret Cho

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go…

— Walter Bagehot

'You're stupid,' is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I have never been sorry when I stood for what was right-even against severe criticism.

— Richard G. Scott

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

— Samuel Johnson

I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put…

— James Lovelock

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

— Harrison Birtwistle

I have known exceptional people who have endured severe trials while others, at least on the surface, seem to have lived charmed…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel...

— John Burroughs

The world was warned of extremely severe dangers unless urgent steps are taken to deal with global warming.

— Noam Chomsky

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

— William Tecumseh Sherman

Why am I running for president? Well, my wife, Cindy, says it is because I sustainedseveral severe blows to the head in…

— John McCain

Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn