Severe Quotes

434 quotes by 378 authors

Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot. The next day, walking among the wreckage, I found the… — Mary Ruefle
Abuse manipulates and twists a child's natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her… — Laura Davies
The physical signs of measles are nearly the same as those of smallpox, but nausea and inflammation is more severe, though the pains in the… — Avicenna
Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials. — Mercy Otis Warren
With his continual doctrine [Bishop Hooper] adjoined due and discreet correction, not so much severe to any as to them which for abundance of riches… — John Foxe
If you had to explain America's economic success with one word, that word would be "education".... Until now, the results of educational neglect have been… — Paul Krugman
Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there… — John Ruskin
The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Love is a severe mental disorder. — Plato
If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities… — A. Edward Newton
Severe mental illness like psychosis can lead to a tragedy like this - that people can see things that aren't real and hear things that… — Andrea Yates
At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people… — Ibrahim Babangida
I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World Series in Philadelphia… — Herbert Hoover
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue. — Maximilien Robespierre
One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. — Oscar Wilde
I think that when you look at the great politicians, the two greatest in my view were George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, they certainly had… — John McCain
Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her.… — Irving Penn
Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenges are events in life, not life itself. I do not minimize how hard some of these events are. They can… — Richard G. Scott
You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form. — Pierre Bonnard
Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge. — Ivan Pavlov

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