Severely Quotes
155 quotes by 139 authors
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been…
— Abigail Adams
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The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity,…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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Each of us has great gifts, but many of us severely limit ourselves with negative attitudes about our potential.
— Gene R. Cook
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Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.
— Kathryn Hulme
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You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession. For instance, if a man…
— Bruce Lee
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Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.
— Murray Gell-Mann
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What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
— Seneca the Elder
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God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.
— Richard J. Needham
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I also require much time to ponder over the matters themselves, and particularly the principles of mechanics (as the very words: force, time, space, motion…
— Heinrich Hertz
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I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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My child,you are broken. Unless you know that you are broken yourself,it will be severely laborious to love the broken people around you. You will…
— Bo Sanchez
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Isolation, not solitude, breaks men. If I could not find the means to deal with the isolation, then my options were severely limited. I began…
— Shawn Thompson
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[Theory is] an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as fact. That's what…
— David Quammen
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You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found in all real…
— Friedrich Schiller
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I know I've been called the Louis Vuitton Don ... I've been called a lot of names ... Due to what happened, so severely, when…
— Kanye West
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Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves; indeed,…
— Saint Augustine
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I've always known that I was a gifted person. ... I've always felt like I would be punished, severely, if I didn't continue to make…
— Merle Haggard
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