When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
... it is highly unlikely that a structural derangement could produce pain equal in severity to acute muscle spasm. — John E. Sarno Copy Share Image
Our passions may be compared to certain slaves--the more severity we show them, the better they obey us. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
When training young horses "There are many types of bits for many different disciplines, but the severity of ALL bits lies in… — Monty Roberts Copy Share Image
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this… — Henry Mayhew Copy Share Image
In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system.… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
For decades, I thought that scientific truth, solid economic case studies, and common sense were enough to bring about change on the… — Annie Leonard Copy Share Image
Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
From the social cognitive perspective, it is mainly perceived inefficacy to cope with potentially aversive events that makes them fearsome. To the… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Such was the unhappy condition of the Roman emperors, that, whatever might be their conduct, their fate was commonly the same. A… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion. — Terence Copy Share Image
If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the… — Dee Wallace Copy Share Image
It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
The smiles that encourage severity of judgment hide malice and insincerity. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
![“Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to monkeys to lemurs] - leading us insensibly from the crown and summit of the animal creation down to creatures, from which there is but a step, as it seems, to the…” quote by Thomas Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f0b/thomas-huxley-1183_animal_perhaps-no-order-of-mammals-presents-us_3051.jpg)
