Every time I get injured I measure it's severity by asking myself 'Would this stop me from going to Disneyland?' — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Generosity should begin lightly and deepen later, fro when it is first rich and then lessens, people forget the kindness. Authority should… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
The severity of your problems is a matter of perspective. Change your perspective and most of them become insignificant. Some of them… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
God's justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is 'too kind' to punish… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
When a uniform exercise of kindness to prisoners on our part has been returned by as uniform severity on the part of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous. — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
The severity of penalties is only a vain resource, invented by little minds in order to substitute terror for that respect which… — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
I am giving them a Warning and a Guidance from God to help them to do that which will save America. And… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which… — George Catlin Copy Share Image
Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
I thought I could not breathe in that fine air That pure severity of perfect light I yearned for warmth and colour… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Post-genocide Rwanda has managed to implement a good universal health insurance scheme that covers a large proportion of the population. This came… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father. — Saadi Copy Share Image
A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
