Severe Quotes · Page 6

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 am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.

— Robert J. Shiller

[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

The severe household has no fierce slaves, but it is the affectionate mother.

— Han Fei

The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65…

— Naoto Kan

The critics who love are the severe ones . . . we know our relationship must be based on honesty.

— Judith Crist

Resource extraction impacts a global environment that is increasingly at severe risk.

— Noam Chomsky

Today's gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans' pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious.

— Pete Domenici

The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe…

— Dalai Lama

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

In Italy, above all in view of the next general election, political parties, movements and new politicians continue to proliferate, naturally all…

— William C. Brown

The weird thing about metal fans is we're all so maladjusted in a lot of ways. We're individualistic and opinionated and severe…

— Corey Taylor

When I was in the army, there were four times that I was wounded. I also got more than 30 wounds on…

— Nguyen Tan Dung

Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit - a very common symptom indeed among God's children. Such bitterness and…

— Watchman Nee

I'm a severe graphic novels junkie. People ask me about it, and I say I like the graphic novels. Comic books are…

— Dave Pirner

The SPR is intended to provide relief at times when working families are struggling to make ends meet, and to counter the…

— Bill Vaughan

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 patriot, like the Christian, must learn to bear revilings and persecutions as a part of his duty; and in proportion as…

— Thomas Jefferson

Problems associated with the menstrual cycle are now commonplace. The majority of teenagers whom I have seen suffer problems such as PMS,…

— Mark Starr

Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as…

— Chanakya

Near the top of the market, investors are extraordinarily optimistic because they've seen mostly higher prices for a year or two. The…

— Martin Zweig

A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only…

— Thomas Pogge

In the Bible and Holy Qur'an, God shows us through the life of His prophets and messengers that none of them came…

— Louis Farrakhan

Whenever I write about immigration, I hear heart-wrenching stories of computer workers who are unemployed and facing severe hardship.

— Vivek Wadhwa

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies…

— H. G. Wells

In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).

— Yasmin Mogahed

A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

— Clarence Darrow

This is a very grave matter, punishable by...well, I do not exactly know what, but something rather severe, I should imagine.

— Susanna Clarke

Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.

— Edmund Burke

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make…

— Lord Byron

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

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

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

— Seneca the Younger

This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately…

— Timothy Geithner

I graduated from school for graphic design, and I started to get into acting class just to get over severe fright. I…

— Trevor Donovan