Severe Quotes · Page 4

Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day.

— P. J. O'Rourke

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe…

— Saint John Chrysostom

I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.

— George Fetherling

I have been very fortunate as to escape through another day's very severe fighting and escaped unhurt.

— Anonymous

There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to…

— Milton Friedman

The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross…

— Louise Bogan

There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.

— Hans Rosling

The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of…

— Thomas Browne

The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator, have…

— Michael Faraday

Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused... this ambiguity can have severe,…

— Taryn Simon

We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe…

— Saint Bernard

In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on 'formalism.' There was a bulletin…

— Mstislav Rostropovich

All who in this world render true service to God or man receive a preparatory training in the school of sorrow. The…

— Ellen G. White

It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building…

— Santiago Calatrava

Bypass surgery, angioplasty,and even diagnostic angiograms are so over used that, in my opinion, it constitutes criminal behaviour by the cardiologists and…

— Julian Whitaker

What has happened to Africa is very severe. We are talking about the collapse of this and the collapse of that, of…

— Chinua Achebe

How dangerous are those sea animals with bad reputations? A few actually kill. A few maim. Some are poisonous when eaten by…

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

An entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishonest knave: the best and…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

It seems to rise again when the crisis times come, and this is a time of most severe crisis, as we all…

— Walter Cronkite

What I have been trying to remind people of for the past 40 years is that you can’t operate an entire conventional…

— Prince Charles

No one suggested Lehman deserved to be saved. But the argument has been made that the crisis might have been less severe…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered…

— Bertrand Russell

The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof…

— Samuel Smiles

There is no condition so severe that you cannot reverse it by choosing different thoughts.

— Esther Hicks

On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under…

— Terry Brooks

We've poisoned our planet to a desperate degree. We have no idea of how severe the toxification is.

— Benjamin Creme

Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.

— Malachy McCourt

I'm sure if the punishment fits the crime, or is more severe, you're going to start stamping out a lot of things…

— Alan Curbishley

Severe poverty is getting better by some measures, but it's also becoming ever more scandalous because it is now so easily avoidable.

— Thomas Pogge

If you refrain from judging your worst enemy, his children will come to your side. What more severe judgment could come upon…

— Sun Myung Moon

I've worked with tons of people that I know who are on the spectrum - but now I think severe autism has…

— Temple Grandin

Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself.

— Richard G. Scott

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

— John Jay Chapman

The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling…

— H. Rider Haggard

The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.

— Madame de Stael

Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

— Seneca the Younger

The Arab and Islamic countries suffer from severe backwardness, and the Western world wants to make them even more backward.

— Mohammed Mahdi Akef

Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils. [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.]

— Tacitus