Severe Quotes

434 quotes by 378 authors

By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their… — Ian Mcewan
London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems;… — Ian Mcewan
I like my surroundings to be pretty spare and severe. It helps me to concentrate on my work. All I ever do here is go… — Ross Bleckner
It doesn't matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland. — Chris Colfer
When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost… — Nicole Krauss
This is not some distant problem of the future. This is a problem that is affecting Americans right now. Whether it means increased flooding, greater… — Barack Obama
In hard times of severe crisis if you want to create new jobs, I recommend you to start killing some people. It's the old "topos"… — William C. Brown
In Italy, above all in view of the next general election, political parties, movements and new politicians continue to proliferate, naturally all inspired by the… — William C. Brown
Hemorrhoids can bleed, typically after a bowel movement, producing blood-streaked stool or toilet paper, .. The blood may turn water in the toilet bowl red.… — Alfred the Great
Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a circumscribed universe of… — George Will
Few people are aware of the severe human rights violations committed daily by family court judges across the country. These courts are siding over and… — Lundy Bancroft
The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein… — Thomas Browne
Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe — Soren Kierkegaard
Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us. — Alain de Botton
A severe war lurks under the show of peace. — Claudius Claudianus
This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in… — Charles Gounod
The power of beauty at work in man, as the artist has always known, is severe and exacting, and once evoked, will never leave him… — Lawren Harris
It seems to rise again when the crisis times come, and this is a time of most severe crisis, as we all know, not just… — Walter Cronkite
Clean water is a necessity that we can no longer take for granted. Each year more people die of water related diseases than any other… — Jewel
A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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