Severe Quotes
434 quotes by 378 authors
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This is a huge problem. If we don't deal with this within just a few years, you will have island nations flooded; you will have…
— William J. Clinton
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The little black dress must be luxurious, rich, sensual, diaphanous, exotic, severe, lush, demure, demanding, frivolous, amusing, and it must linger in memory, but above…
— Carolina Herrera
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Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for ... we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty ... the Italian…
— Benito Mussolini
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I know of no severe depression, in any country or any time, that was not accompanied by a sharp decline in the stock of money,…
— Milton Friedman
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Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose…
— William J. Brennan
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You know what would make a good story? Something about a clown who make people happy, but inside he's real sad. Also, he has severe…
— Jack Handey
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Americans have a severe disease — worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and…
— Jonathan Carroll
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In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a…
— Chen-Ning Yang
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Let your desire for truth transcend all minor considerations. Ignorance is invariably confident. The man of knowledge learns to realize his own needs. Be honest…
— Grenville Kleiser
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To charge Snowden with espionage is a severe form of political persecution.
— Mark Weisbrot
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Of all the ills of man which can be successfully processed by Scientology, arthritis ranks near the top. In skilled hands, this ailment, though misunderstood…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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Today I live on an island, in a house that is sad, hard, severe, that I built for myself, solitary on a sheer rock over…
— Unknown Author
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But, the true reason for the success of such new expositions [translated Eastern religious texts] is to be found where they are the most accommodating,…
— Julius Evola
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I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.
— Robert J. Shiller
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Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The…
— Tina Brown
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After a harassing warfare, prolonged by the nature of the country and by the difficulty of procuring subsistence, the Indians were entirely defeated, and the…
— Andrew Jackson
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It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer…
— Martin Van Buren
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The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling.
— Laozi
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The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.
— Alan Rosenberg
Who Wrote These Severe Quotes
378 authors contributed a total of 434 Severe Quotes, led by these top contributors: