Severe Quotes

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It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a… — Samuel Johnson
The critics who love are the severe ones . . . we know our relationship must be based on honesty. — Judith Crist
Men professing godliness offer their bodies upon Satan's altar, and burn the incense of tobacco to his satanic majesty. Does this statement seem severe? The… — Ellen G. White
For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no single event makes… — Barack Obama
The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator, have been crushed in… — Michael Faraday
No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They began to be,… — Hugh Miller
The plague of pornography is swirling about us as never before. Pornography brings a vicious wake of immorality, broken homes, and broken lives. Pornography will… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself. — Elias Lyman Magoon
I noticed affixed to a laboratory door the following words: "Les thÃ©ories passent. Le Grenouille reste. [The theories pass. The frog remains.] &mdashJean Rostand, Carnets… — Frank Kermode
Philosophy would long ago have reached a high level if our predecessors and fathers had put this into practice; and we would not waste time… — Marin Mersenne
The bad man is the man who no matter how good he has been is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good. The good man… — John Dewey
I'm sure if the punishment fits the crime, or is more severe, you're going to start stamping out a lot of things that are going… — Alan Curbishley
I have never been sorry when I stood for what was right-even against severe criticism. — Richard G. Scott
It may be relatively mild when expressed as criticism, anger, or feelings of severe frustration. Criticism has a negative influence on the feelings of love… — H. Burke Peterson
There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So… — Dustin Hoffman
The onset of more severe climate impacts overseas may also open up temporary opportunities, or 'policy windows.' These would allow legislators the licence to take… — John Beddington
We need a more authoritative world...What's the alternative to democracy? There isn't one. But even the best democracies agree that when a major war approaches,… — James Lovelock
Trend analyses for extreme tropical cyclones are unreliable because of operational changes that have artificially resulted in more intense tropical cyclones being recorded, casting severe… — Christopher Landsea
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself. — Anthony Trollope

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